Katie Melua

Katie has won and been nominated for a total of 7 awards. Won: 2006 Edison Award for "Best female artist International", 2007 World Soundtrack Award for "Best original song written for film", 2006 Brit Award for "Best British Female Solo Artist" and 2006 Brit Award for "Best Pop Act". Nominated: 2007 Goldene Kamera Award for "Best female international solo act", 2007 Echo Award for "International Pop/Rock Female Artist of the" and 2005 Echo Award for "Best International newcomer".

Katie was inducted into the Guinness World Records for "The deepest underwater concert" when she performed at the bottom of one of the four shafts of the Statoil Troll-A Platform gas rig at the bottom of the North Sea.

Katie was named Britain's highest grossing female recording artist in 2006.

Katie made her acting debut in the Grindhouse double feature Planet Terror in 2007.

Katie speaks three languages; English, German and Russian.

Both of Katie's parents are in the medical profession. Her father is a heart specialist and her mother is a practicing nurse in the same hospital.

Dutch tulip breeder AGRASS, has decided to name their latest tulip after Katie. The "Katie Melua" Tulip has been in development for more than 15 years and it will be available within two years.

Katie attended St. Mary's Convent in Portstewart, Northern Ireland from the age of 9 to 13.

Katie was a member of 2004's collaborative group Band Aid, which donates its proceeds to support various world wide charities.

Katie was classmates with Amy Winehouse (a fellow jazz inspired musician) at the BRIT Performing Arts & Technology School in Croydon-Surrey, England.

Katie is 5'2" (157 cm).

Sept 2005: Rather bizarrely Katie's song 'Nine Million Bicycles' came under rather over-the-top scrutiny from British Author Simon Singh (who has a docterate in physics) who insisted that Katie has 'no right' to suggest, in the song, that it's guesswork that we are '12 billion light years from the edge' of the universe when a more accurate figure is 13.7 billion light years and scientists can accurately prove it.