Kate "KT" Tunstall (born 23 June,1975) is a BRIT Award winning, Grammy-nominated Scottish singer and songwriter. She broke into the public eye with a performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later with Jools Holland. She has enjoyed commercial and critical success since, selling over four million albums and picking up three BRIT Awards and two Grammy nominations.

While her first name is Kate, she chose to go by KT as her first name, saying "[Kate] just makes me think of a buxom lass baking bread for her man working in the fields. I have no problem with that, but it's just not really how I pictured being a rock star." Also, Tunstall spells her first name KT (as opposed to Katie) to differentiate herself from singers with similar names.

Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall burst onto the public consciousness last year with her gritty debut album ‘Eye to the Telescope’, a provocative sonic mesh of heartfelt pop, rootsy, electric blues, and left-field alt-rock. Eye spawned three hit singles — the Grammy-Award nominated “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree,” “Suddenly I See,” and “Other Side of the World” — all of which became omnipresent on radio, television, movies, and the Internet. Thanks to the multi-media e