Katie Melua

With combined U.K. album sales of nearly three million copies, Georgian-born Katie Melua has quietly become one of the biggest-selling female artists of the decade. Without the media profile of Britney Spears, the powerhouse vocals of Anastacia, or the critical acclaim of Dido, her success has been based purely on old-fashioned songs that have managed to have appeal beyond the usual folk-pop market. Indeed, just like her biggest influence, Eva Cassidy, who appears here on a posthumous cover of "What a Wonderful World," Melua's soothing and jazz-tinged tones found an audience through repeated plays on Terry Wogan's BBC Radio 2 show.

Katie Melua - The Katie Melua Collection (2008)
Jazz-Pop | Année 2008 | MP3: VBR~192Kbps | Cover Front | 69.7MB
Genre: Jazz-Pop

Katie Melua – The Katie Melua Collection
Voilà cinq ans que Katie Melua, jeune artiste géorgienne (qui a obtenu depuis la nationalité britannique) a démarré sa carrière en tant qu’artiste, une carrière qui permit à la jeune femme de se faire connaître dans de nombreux pays du monde avec ses trois premiers albums (qui contiennent des tubes comme « Call Off The Search », « Closest Thing To Crazy », « Nine Million Bicycles » ou encore « Mary Pickford »).

Un an s’est écoulé depuis la sortie de « Pictures », le troisième et dernier album en date de la chanteuse. Et depuis le 8 Octobre dernier, Dramatico, la maison de disques de la chanteuse, a annoncé la sortie, pour le 24 Octobre prochain, d’une compilation (nommé « The Katie Melua Collection ») composée de deux disques : le premier regroupe plusieurs singles et chansons issues des trois premiers albums de Katie, « When You Taught Me How To Dance » (issue de la BO du film « Miss Potter » et enfin, trois nouvelles chansons : « Two Bare Feet », « Toy Collection » et « Somewhere In The Same Hotel ». Le second disque n’est autre qu’un DVD comprenant un concert à Rotterdam ainsi que les coulisses du spectacle).

With combined U.K. album sales of nearly three million copies, Georgian-born Katie Melua has quietly become one of the biggest-selling female artists of the decade. Without the media profile of Britney Spears, the powerhouse vocals of Anastacia, or the critical acclaim of Dido, her success has been based purely on old-fashioned songs that have managed to have appeal beyond the usual folk-pop market. Indeed, just like her biggest influence, Eva Cassidy, who appears here on a posthumous cover of "What a Wonderful World," Melua's soothing and jazz-tinged tones found an audience through repeated plays on Terry Wogan's BBC Radio 2 show.

Piece by Piece is the second studio album by British-Georgian jazz and blues singer Katie Melua. It was released on 26 September 2005 by Dramatico Records. In the United Kingdom, the album debuted at #1 with 120,459 copies sold in its first week and to date has gone platinum four times. Georgia-born (as in the country, not the state) singer/songwriter Katie Melua found herself atop the British charts in 2003 with her breezy debut, Call Off the Search, which sold over three million copies in Europe alone. Her laid-back blend of blues, jazz, and pop with a kiss of worldbeat drew comparisons to Norah Jones, and rightfully so. She sticks to the formula on her lush, ultimately safe follow-up, Piece by Piece.