Closest ThingTo Crazy - Katie Melua (Cover)

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totethatgun
November 04, 2009

This is my rendition of the beautiful Katie Melua song Closest Thing To Crazy, it's a little different to original for obvious reasons....I hope the male voice works. I love the song and wanted to do my thing with it. Hope you enjoy listening to it as much as i did singing it.

Katie Melua was born in Georgia (former USSR) in 1984, growing up under the communist regime in the capital, Tbilisi. The family left Georgia when Katie was eight and moved to Belfast where her father got a job as a heart surgeon. Katie didnt always want to be a singer or songwriter. Her ambition when she was thirteen was to be a politician or a historian I honestly thought Id be able to bring peace to the world...if I ruled it! The family lived in Belfast for five years before moving to South East London. After her GCSEs, Katie joined the Brit School for Performing Arts where she undertook a BTEC and Music A-level.

Composer/producer Mike Batt paid a visit to the school. Katie signed to Batts record label Dramatico, but stayed at the Brit School to complete her studies where she graduated with distinction in July 2003.

Unable to secure a contract with a Major record company, Katie and Mike decided to put her album Call Off The Search (containing the song The Closest Thing To Crazy) out on Batts own, small record label. After an initial struggle, followed by an appearance on The Royal Variety Show, 19 year old Katie shot to the top of the UK album charts and became the biggest selling female artist for the next two years. Her two albums, (the second of which contained the hit Nine Million Bicycles) have sold nearly 9 million copies to date. She is currently Europes biggest selling female solo artist. She and her family took British nationality in 2005.

The past years have been quite extraordinary for Katie (now 23). She has had a Dutch tulip named in her honour, toured America coast to coast, met and played for Nelson Mandela in South Africa visiting his Aids charity, has become a hard working Ambassador for Save The Children, raced at 160mph around Grand Prix circuit Silverstone, flown a plane, learned to dive and parachute freefall, descended 303 metres into the depths of the leg of a gas rig in North Sea (achieving a Guinness World Record), and picked up various prestigious awards within Europe, including a World Music Award, a Golden Camera Award, and two German Echo Awards. In December 2007, Katie had her first number one single with a duet with her idol, the late Eva Cassidy, entitled What A Wonderful World, with proceeds from the single going to support the UK work of the British Red Cross.

October 2007 saw the internationally successful release of Katies third album Pictures - a record which has delighted her legions of fans, confirmed Katies status as a unique and remarkable vocalist, and revealed the third chapter in what is destined to be a long musical career.

Katies fourth album, The Katie Melua Collection, is a musical summary of the 24 year olds journey so far and was released in October 2008.

Katie's Biography is taken from katiemelua.com - Thank you.

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Katie Melua Closest Thing To Crazy Janus Joplin Kosmic Blues nine million bicycles mike batt norah jones kt tunstall

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