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1. Call Off The Search
2. Crawling Up A Hill
3. The Closest Thing To Crazy
4. My Aphrodisiac Is You
5. Learnin' The Blues
6. Blame It On The Moon

7. Belfast
8. I Think It's Going To Rain Today
9. Mockingbird
10. Tiger In The Night
11. Faraway Voice
12. Lilac Wine

Closest Thing to Crazy

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BORN: 16/09/1984 - BIRTH PLACE: Tbilisi, Georgia, former USSR - moved to Belfast Northern Ireland after her father, a doctor, got a job in 1992, went to catholic schools (St. Catherine’s Primary School and Dominican College, Fortwilliam Park - Belfast) - INFLUENCES: Queen, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Eva Cassidy, Irish folk music and Indian music. - Often compared to Norah Jones .

"I was born in Georgia in the former USSR in 1984, living in Moscow for a while when I was three or four. Not surprisingly I don't remember a lot of Moscow back in the communist time, although one thing I do remember is that the place we were staying in did the most amazing pancakes I've ever tasted. Leaving Moscow and the pancakes I spent most of my childhood in Georgia in the seaside town of Batumi. There's really nothing better than swimming in the Black Sea. When I was nine, my dad got a job as a heart surgeon in Belfast, so wemoved there. When I told this to one of my teachers later on in England he described the move as: "From the frying pan into the fire".

"It was a harder adjustment to go from Georgia to Belfast. Coming to Belfast was my first taste of the Western world. But I was young, I was 8, and I think kids adapt quite easily. Obviously, I missed my grandparents and all my friends in Georgia, but I loved Belfast and I thought it was a great place and I got used to it".

Finally Katie moved to London, where Melua entered the only UK FREE Colllege - B.R.I.T. School for the Performing Arts & Technology in Croydon . Discovered by composer producer Mike Batt, Katie Melua saw her debut bolt up the U.K. charts upon its release there in late 2003

The record industry-funded school had a habit of graduating talented performing artists (Floetry, for example), and Melua became its next success when a 2003 showcase caught the attention of Mike Batt, who'd been looking for a vocalist capable in both jazz and blues styles. Call Off the Search was issued in the U.K. in November 2003 through Batt's Dramatico Records imprint. A comfortable, extremely tasteful blend of jazz vocals, pop style, and adult contemporary sway, the album featured two cuts penned by Melua (including a tribute to one of her biggest influences, Eva Cassidy), as well as covers of material from John Mayall, Randy Newman, and the James Shelton classic "Lilac Wine." The single "Closest Thing to Crazy" hit number one in December wrote by Mike (her manager) , and by January of the following year, Call Off the Search had gone platinum (300,000 units in the U.K.).

Gigs in Europe followed, and in May '04 Melua made her way to the U.S. for a round of club dates supporting the album's domestic release. Part bio - Johnny Loftus, All Music Guide © 2005 AEC One Stop Group, Inc.

Mike Batt: born 6/02/1950, Southampton England, well known UK's songwriter composer.
Notable Works: WATERSHIP DOWN (music and lyrics to Art Garfunkel's international number one single, 'Bright Eyes').
PHANTOM OF THE OPERA (producing, co-writing with Andrew Lloyd Webber and orchestrating the first hit) .
Numerous symphonic works, television and film scores.' THE WOMBLES of WIMBLEDON'.
Collaborations - Vanessa Mae, David Essex, Elkie Brooks, Steeley Span, and Cliff Richard.
'Almost every artist I work with represents a fresh direction, or should do (although most of my songs on the album were written before I met Katie). But the background to the collaboration is the fact that I was looking for a young artist to make such an album, and when I found Katie at the Brit School in Croydon, where she was studying, I realised just how unique she was'.