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KT Tunstall's generation defining sound

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A black and white photo of singer songwriter KT Tunstall wearing stripey clothing, bowing in front of a striped wall.

Singer songwriter KT Tunstall Photo: Destroy All Lines

Scottish singer-songwriter KT Tunstall went viral before going viral was even really a thing.

In 2004 a chance live performance of her song Black Horse and the Cherry Tree on British TV show Later ... with Jools Holland catapulted her career overnight. That track made it onto her multi-million-selling debut album Eye to the Telescope which also features the generation defining hit Suddenly You See - known for being featured in The Devil Wears Prada.

To mark the 20th anniversary of the album and to celebrate KT's New Zealand shows in May, Susie Ferguson asks her about breaking into the music industry, going deaf overnight and discovering siblings she never knew existed.