Ketevan "Katie" Melua is a British singer and songwriter. She was born in Kutaisi, Georgia and raised in Belfast and London. Under the management of composer Mike Batt, she was signed to the small Dramatico record label. She made her musical debut in 2003 and within three years, she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist as well as Europe's highest selling European female artist.
Melua in 2017
Melua at a signing in 2004
Melua at Cambridge Corn Exchange, part of her 2006 UK concert tour
Zelt-Musik-Festival 2016 in Freiburg, Germany
Kutaisi is one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world and the third-most populous city in Georgia after Tbilisi and Batumi. Situated 221 kilometres west of Tbilisi, on the Rioni River, it is the capital of the western region of Imereti.
Image: Downtown Kutaisi & White Bridge as seen from Mt Gora (August 2011) cropped
Image: Kutaisi. A renovated downtown street (Photo A. Muhranoff, 2010)
Image: 2014 Kutaisi, Katedra Bagrati (19)
Kutaisi in 1885