By Cynthia Charlene Greason
FROM WIKIPEDIA COMMONS
Kate Victoria “KT” Tunstall (born 23 June 1975) is a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” on Later… with Jools Holland. She has released eight studio albums internationally: Eye to the Telescope (2004), Drastic Fantastic (2007), Tiger Suit (2010), Invisible Empire // Crescent Moon (2013), Kin (2016), Wax (2018), Nut (2022), and a collaboration album with American musician Suzi Quatro, Face to Face (2023). She has also appeared in two episodes of the comedy series This is Jinsy on Sky Atlantic.
The name of her debut studio album, Eye to the Telescope, was inspired by her childhood experiences at her father’s physics laboratory at University of St Andrews. Released in 2004, the album led to her nominations for the Mercury Prize in 2005, a BRIT Award for Best British Live Act and BRIT Award for Best Breakthrough Act in 2006, and a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance nomination in 2007. She won the BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist and the European Border Breakers Award, both in 2006. The single “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree” was given the Q Magazine Award for Best Track in 2005, and “Suddenly I See” won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song in 2006. “Suddenly I See” became a popular hit and has been featured in The Devil Wears Prada, Blind Dating, Ugly Betty, Grey’s Anatomy and Love, Rosie; Thrillville, and as a campaign song on the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign.[5][6]
Tunstall has written music and songs for film soundtracks including “Boy” for The Kid, “Miracle” for Winter’s Tale, “We Could Be Kings” for Million Dollar Arm; “Float”, “Strange Sight” and “1000 Years” for Tinker Bell and the Legend of the NeverBeast; “Fit In” for About Ray; and “Bad Moms (Suite)”, “Enough is Enough (Suite)” and “Get Your Tits Up (Suite)” for Bad Moms.
TODAY’S ALMAANC
Question of the Day
Advice of the Day
Home Hint of the Day
Word of the Day
Puzzle of the Day
Born
- Josephine de Beauharnais (Empress of France) –
- Jean Anouilh (playwright) –
- Alan Turing ( computer science pioneer) –
- Bob Fosse (choreographer) –
- June Carter Cash (singer) –
- Wilma Rudolph (sprinter, Olympic gold medalist) –
- Clarence Thomas (U.S. Supreme Court justice) –
- Randy Jackson (music producer & judge on American Idol) –
- Frances McDormand (actress) –
- Selma Blair (actress) –
- KT Tunstall (musician) –
- Jason Mraz (musician) –
Died
- Jonas Salk (inventor of polio vaccine) –
- Maureen O’Sullivan (actress) –
- Aaron Spelling (American television producer ) –
- Rod Beck (baseball player) –
- Ed McMahon (television personality) –
- Dick Van Patten (actor) –
Events
- William Penn signed a treaty of peace and friendship with the Lenni Lenape Native Americans in what is now Pennsylvania–
- Texas voted for annexation by the United States after nearly ten years as an independent republic–
- First practical typewriter patented–
- Mercedes lodged as trade name–
- First U.S. national lip reading tournament, Philadelphia, PA–
- Wiley Post and Harold Gatty took off for a round-the-world flight in their plane, the Winnie Mae–
- A 50-pound 4-ounce red snapper was caught in the Gulf of Mexico near Louisiana–
- Lt. Gen. Ann E. Dunwoody nominated as the U.S.’s first female four-star general–
- A 5.0-magnitude earthquake struck about 40 miles north of Ottawa near the Quebec-Ontario border–
- Nik Wallenda became the first person to walk across the Grand Canyon on a wire–
Weather
- It was 129 degrees F in Volcano Springs, California. This was the highest temperature ever recorded in the United States during the month of June–
- Hail accumulated a foot deep in El Dorado, Kansas–
- Billings, Montana, had a temperature of 104 degrees F–
- Hailstones the size of baseballs pounded areas of southeastern Manitoba–
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