Top of the Props ; She's Walked On Hot Coals, Performed in Front of Thousands and Didn't Balk at a 600ft Bungee Jump. But Could Katie Melua Master the Controls of a Light Aircraft? Louise Gannon Fastens Her Seatbelt

Mail on Sunday › September 25, 2006

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Katie Melua, Britain's biggest-selling female artist for the past two years, is not only a ridiculously talented singersongwriter. She's also stunningly beautiful (in a Kate-Bush-meets-Natalie- Imbruglia sort of way) and a young woman with a romantic-sounding past.

Melua's laid-back retro style of folk-pop first emerged three years ago with her debut hit, Closest Thing To Crazy. At the time, she was an 18-year-old student at London's Brit School For Performing Arts.

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Top of the Props ; She's Walked On Hot Coals, Performed in Front of Thousands and Didn't Balk at a 600ft Bungee Jump. But Could Katie Melua Master the Controls of a Light Aircraft? Louise Gannon Fastens Her Seatbelt

Born in the Republic Of Georgia, close to the Black Sea and part of the former Soviet Union, she lived until the age of nine in a region where having no running water or electricity was the norm. Her father, an eminent heart surgeon, moved the family first to Belfast and then to London when she was 15.

Throughout Melua's rise to fame she has remained completely at odds with the popular obsession for celebrity and bling. In three years of non-stop hits and constant touring, performing with artists such as Elton John, she has gone out of her ...

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