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KT Tunstall

Profession : Musician

Birth : June 23, 1975

My father passing really, in many ways, was a gift: It made me look at my own happiness and sense of self and realize that I wasn't happy. I had checked all these boxes and achieved all this stuff that I thought made you happy. And I was miserable.

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I was a child badminton wizard.

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When I was seventeen, I left Scotland to go to Kent, a well-to-do boarding school in Connecticut, where there was a contingent of really naughty kids.

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I can play piano, classical flute, guitar, bass and I'm OK on drums.

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I had a job for a year, working in a high-quality whiskey-and-wine shop.

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Criticism only hurts when there's some truth in it.

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I've never considered myself a locked-down straight person. I've had relationships with girls.

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My maternal grandmother was Cantonese, so I'm a quarter Chinese and half Irish and a quarter Scottish and raised by English parents living in Scotland.

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I'm a huge fan of The Chemical Brothers and the Ninja Tune label and a lot of the stuff that they put out like DJ Shadow but I think, out of all of them, Leftism really just excited my musical brain in terms of the way that they mixed real instruments with dance tracks.

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Touring is such a major sacrifice, especially as you get older, to be away from friends and family and home and any sort of routine or home comforts.

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KIN' is basically a kind of rite of passage, scars-and-all celebration of going through difficult things in your life and being better for it.

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I joined a drama group when I was eight. It was the first time I'd made the connection with an audience.

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Getting to know myself changed everything. It's the best thing I've ever done.

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For me, success is being happy. I used to think it was lots of houses, lots of record sales, lots of stories to tell. But some massive life changes, getting a divorce and my dad dying, led to a huge period of reflection.

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I really enjoy tech, but I'm not voracious - I'll find stuff because I want to use it, not because I'm interested in what's out there. It's a sort of necessity relationship.

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The only regular exercise I do is playing my shows, which are basically two hours of aerobics.

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I've got my roots in Northern Ireland - my biological father's side of the family were from Belfast.

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I follow the Bulletproof diet - it is based on grass-fed steak, vegetables, no carbs and a lot of butter.

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