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KT Tunstall's Latest Album Is 'A Phoenix From The Ashes'

After Mercury and Grammy nominations and 10 years of platinum-selling albums and chart-topping songs, Scottish musician and soundtrack composer KT Tunstall was tired of the spotlight and ready to leave professional music. Then, in 2012, her father, a physicist at the University of St. Andrews, died. "I felt like the biggest rock ’n’ roll cliché. I had everything I wanted – money in the bank, a career, a marriage, a house – and I wasn’t happy." Shaken out of the bubble of her musical touring life, Tunstall got divorced, sold her house in the UK, moved to California, and after a hiatus, returned to music recharged, with a newfound passion. “This feels like the beginning of the second chapter of my career.”

(Broadcast: "Musician's Spotlight,"  4/5/18 and 5/31/18. Listen on the radio Thursdays, 7:30 p.m., or via podcast.)

John Floridis, the host and producer of Musician's Spotlight, has been with Montana Public Radio since 1997. He has interviewed over 200 musicians during that time. He is also an independent recording and performing artist in his own right and a former registered music therapist.
Beth Anne Austein has been spinning tunes on the air (The Folk Show, Dancing With Tradition, Freeforms), as well as recording, editing and mixing audio for Montana Public Radio and Montana PBS, since the Clinton Administration. She’s jockeyed faders or "fixed it in post” for The Plant Detective; Listeners Bookstall; Fieldnotes; Musicians Spotlight; The Write Question; Storycorps; Selected Shorts; Bill Raoul’s music series; orchestral and chamber concerts; lecture series; news interviews; and outside producers’ programs about topics ranging from philosophy to ticks.
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