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If you haven’t heard Katie Melua’s music yet then rush over to her website or the iTunes store and have a listen. (Her own website appears to be experiencing difficulties at the moment.) Born in Georgia and raised in Belfast and London since the age of eight, Katie is one of the most exciting female musical talents to emerge in years.

Like all true creatives she defies categorization. Her music is blues jazz or jazz blues with elements of folk, rock and pop, but none of that really matters and none of it is really relevant. Her music is her music, and she is what makes it special not her genre. She is a breath of fresh poetry and feeling in a world of shallow pop.

Katie has a voice with the velvet of Sade at her best but a very special drive and energy that are all her own. She writes and arranges almost all of her own songs and plays the guitar (very well). When she’s not playing her own compositions she does some delightfully fresh versions of tracks like Canned Heat’s On the Road Again (YouTube video). She is amazingly fresh and creative and is destined to be a huge star. Well, actually, with two number one albums throughout Europe she’s already a huge star but she’s going to be a lot bigger.

On her website you can currently watch the entire video of her big hit Nine Million Bicycles in Beijing (lyrics) and also a live performance of Shy Boy (lyrics).