Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer & songwriter. She was born in Georgia, USSR and moved to the United Kingdom at the age of eight – first to Belfast, and then to London in 1999.

Melua is signed to the small Dramatico record label, under the management of composer Mike Batt and made her musical debut in 2003. Just three years later she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist.

At 19, in November 2003, Katie Melua released her first album called Call Off the Search, which reached the top of the United Kingdom album charts and sold 1.8 million copies in its first 5 months of release.

Katie's second album, Piece by Piece, was released in September 2005 and has gone platinum 4 times. Melua released her third studio album Pictures in 2007.