Ketevan 'Katie' Melua was bom in 1984 in which Soviet Socialist Republic, now an independent country?
Katie Melua of the United Kingdom album charts and sold 1.8 million copies in its first five months of release. Her second album, "Piece by Piece", was released in September 2005 and has gone platinum (one million units sold) four times. Melua released her third studio album "Pictures" in October 2007. According to the Sunday Times Rich List 2008, Melua had a fortune of £18 million, making her the seventh richest British musician under thirty. Ketevan Melua, known as Ketino to her family, was born on 16 September 1984 to Amiran and Tamara Melua in Kutaisi, Georgia, which was then part of
Katie Melua Katie Melua Ketevan "Katie" Melua (; ; ; born 16 September 1984) is a British-Georgian singer and songwriter. She 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. In 2006, she was the United Kingdom's best-selling female artist and Europe's highest selling European female artist. In November 2003, at the age of nineteen, Melua released her first album, "Call Off the Search", which reached the top