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Tunstall in 2014, photo by Prphotos.com
Birth Name: Kate Victoria Tunstall
Place of Birth: Edinburgh, Scotland
Date of Birth: 23 June, 1975
Ethnicity: * father – Northern Irish/Irish * mother – Scottish, Chinese
KT Tunstall is a Scottish singer, songwriter, and musician. She is known for the hit single “Black Horse and the Cherry Tree.”
Her biological mother, Carol-Ann (McDougall), was from Hong Kong, of Chinese and Scottish descent. Her biological father, John Gabriel Joseph Corrigan, was from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her parents met while her mother was a dancer in Penthouse bar in Edinburgh, where her father was a bartender. KT has never met her biological father. At eighteen days old, her mother gave her up for adoption. KT was adopted by Rosemarie (Bebbington), a Welsh teacher, and David Prestwich Tunstall, an English physics lecturer; they lived in St Andrews, Fife, Scotland.
KT’s biological maternal grandfather was James “Sonny” McDougall (the son of Robert McDougall and Annie Sandie). James was Scottish, and was born in Edinburgh. Robert was the son of James McDougall and Ann Dean Stewart. KT’s great-grandmother Annie was the daughter of Andrew Sandie and Dorothea Thornburn.
KT’s biological maternal grandmother had the surname Wong. She is Chinese.
Sources: https://bamni.co.uk
Genealogy of KT Tunstall (focusing on her mother’s side) – https://www.myheritage.com