Thursday, April 24, 2008

The Reason for KT Tunstall's Stage Name


EDINBURGH-based pop star KT Tunstall has revealed a new reason behind her stage name.

The singer, 32, had previously said she changed her childhood name Katie because it "reminded her of a buxom maid".

However, she now says it is all to do with geology. She said songwriter Billy Bragg found a term called the "KT Impact, which marks the start of the extinction of the dinosaurs".

kewl...and a bummer. Too bad she didn't find it herself.

2 comments:

  1. Somewhere in Utah, Jerry Harris lets out a howl of anguish and vows only to refer to her as K-Pg Tunstall...

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  2. Anonymous4:01 PM

    I'm impressed with Billy Bragg. He's an English left folk rock guy -- did some new versions of unreleased Woody Guthrie songs, which are good if that's the sort of thing you like -- but not the person you'd expect to come up with an appropriate geological nickname. Suggests an expansiveness of interests I don't usually associate with lefty folksingers. (though I could see Springsteen, maybe.)

    Carlos

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