KT TUNSTALL talks about the impact of her fathers death
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- Опубліковано 19 лип 2023
- KT TUNSTALL s a Scottish singer-songwriter and musician. She first gained attention with a 2004 live solo performance of her song "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" on Later... with Jools Holland.
The name of her debut studio album, Eye to the Telescope, was inspired by her childhood experiences at her father's physics laboratory at University of St Andrews. Released in 2004, the album led to her nominations for the Mercury Prize in 2005, a BRIT Award for Best British Live Act and BRIT Award for Best Breakthrough Act in 2006, and a Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance nomination in 2007. She won the BRIT Award for Best British Female Artist and the European Border Breakers Award, both in 2006. The single "Black Horse and the Cherry Tree" was given the Q Magazine Award for Best Track in 2005, and "Suddenly I See" won the Ivor Novello Award for Best Song in 2006. "Suddenly I See" became a popular hit and has been featured in The Devil Wears Prada, Blind Dating, Ugly Betty, Grey's Anatomy and Love, Rosie; Thrillville, and as a campaign song on the Hillary Clinton 2008 presidential campaign
There will never be a better conversation for me than taking to my ONE! ❤ Thank you my Fav! Xx
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Wonderful. Thank you for your frankness, honesty and openness.
Oh man, KT is my favourite human and artist in this amazingly chaotic world - she speaks my feelings and beliefs every damn time - in her songs and in every conversation I’ve listened to. This particular conversation is so utterly beautiful - I am incredibly grateful to you for sharing this. Thank you. ❤
She’s a gem! Thanks for watching/listening 🙏
I lost my dad a little over 2 years ago and my mom this past summer. Still hard to believe they're gone. My brother, sister and I were with our dad when he left this world. As much as it was incredibly painful and traumatic to witness and the worst day of my life, I'm glad that we were with him when he left us.
Dad was a firefighter in the South Bronx, "When the Bronx was Burning", from the late 60s and into the 80s. He was highly respected amongst his peers for how hard he pushed and tortured himself when fighting a fire. Some had said that he had a death wish. He absolutely loved the job though and when he had to retire due to injuries from the job, he said it was like someone cut his arms off. He missed it so much. It takes a special person to do that and I am so incredibly proud of the man that he was. My biggest hero, without a doubt!
He sacrificed so much for his family.
Fortunately, Mom left us in her sleep, so I'm also grateful for that. She suffered for so long, but was such a trooper until the end. She was a really tough woman and did a good job of holding down the fort at home.
We didn't have the happiest home life. Mom and Dad fought alot and the marriage ended when I was 16, but there was never any lack of love and sacrifice for us kids.
And then a former brother in law took his own life a couple months ago. So when I found this video, I felt it was something I needed to see and helped put things into perspective. What a great discussion.
By the way, I discovered Katy and her music about 12 years ago and have been a huge fan ever since. I've watched many of her videos. She seems like such a down to earth, unpretentious person, with a great sense of humor.
You're a lucky man to have her in your life.
Thank you and thanks for sharing that amazing story about your folks. 🙏
A few days before my dad transitioned, I had the gift of a few private moments with him and it was the sweetest, purest essence of him I had ever experienced in my 60 years. When we can just "be" in the moment, embracing both the light and darkness of life without the denials and the pushing away, which I think we were both feeling, the whole process of death just becomes so much more spiritually profound and actually special in a very deep way. Love and light to you both 💞
Thank you for this. Really helped me
What a fascinating conversation; it will take me a while to work out what I think about so many of the things you were talking about.
My father-in-law passed away on 11 June this year, he was 89 and the first of our parents to leave us; he lived next door, where my wife’s Mum still is. He was a deacon in the church, so there was never much doubt about how he wanted his death to be handled. In 27 years of knowing him, I don’t think I ever really knew him as such, it was all cordial enough, but I can’t recall any conversations of note, despite the fact that he performed our wedding ceremony for us.
The type of burial Kate was talking about resonates a lot; I’ve long said just throw me in a hole and plant a tree on top - silver birch for preference - I need to look into that. Other than that, just play ‘Wish You Were’ here over the resulting compost once in a while, and I’m probably good to go.
Best wishes to you both, and take care of that gem you mentioned elsewhere; she means a lot to us.
This is amazing!! I lost a friend to suicide at 18, when i was 19, the same thing at university my head was blown. However i too had a moment where i was visited by him. I again have had moments where i have met people and known instantly they have been with me or around me in a previous life and i know when it has been, like i have seen it. An right now i am in the middle of one of those blowing up moments...as i even watched this i was in the middle of making a decision.... thank you for sharing!!
Thank you and thank you for sharing 🙏
I lost my Dog last year on the two year anniversary of my mom's death and it was crushing. It was one of the hardest decisions I've had to make. He had a tumor on his heart that ruptured and he was bleeding internally so I had to make the decision to "put him down," so he didn't suffer. Two years previously I had to sign mom's DNR. In both cases I knew it was the right things to do but it's so hard at the same time.
Very tough decisions. Thanks for sharing and watching
Love this. Always love to hear the humour and heartwarming moments ❤
Wow, what an interesting conversation. People think it's weird and creepy to talk about death but I think it's so important to be aware of the only certainty we have in life, the effects it has on us, right? I love to hear KT's music, but I also learned in the past years that I love to hear her talk, such an inspirational human! My plan is to donate my body to science after I'm gone, actually to the university I attended, I think somehow I owe this to society since they paid for my education and we yet need to discover so much about the human body, I have chronic illnesses that don't have a cure yet, so yeah, I hope my body is usefull after my death.
Thank you for watching and I love the idea of donating to science 🧬
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