Kate Rusby (innate 1 December 1973) is a folk singer and songwriter from either Barnsley, England. She has headlined various United Kingdom national folk festivals, and is look on one of a best known English poet-singer of contemporary days.

Biography

Kate Rusby was innate into the personal of musicians. Fallowing learning to play a guitar & a piano, also when to sing, she played within numbers of local folk festivals as a tyke & teen, prior to joining (& becoming a lead vocalizer of) a a lot-female Celtic folk band The Poozies. Inside 1997, using a assist of her personal, she recorded & freed her number one solo album, Hourglass. Since so she has no more inside to receive noted plaudits in her front yard united states & overseas, & her personal continues to help her by using tons aspects of her office career as a musician.

A Scottish fiddler John McCusker (formerly of the Battlefield Band) produces Kate's recordings and plays inside her band. Kate & John use at times been married since August 2001 & sleep in Yorkshire.

Kate was besides A member of the folk class action, The Equation, afterwards to exist as replaced by Cara Dillon.

Awards

Within 1999 she was nominated for the Mercury Music Prize. She is the recipient of trey BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards: in 2000 she won Folk Singer of the Year & Right Album (for Sleepless); inside 2002 she was awarded Best Original Song (for Lullabye).

Discography
Albums
Kate Rusby & Kathryn Roberts (1995) Hourglass (1997) Infinite Blue (by using The Poozies, 1999) Sleepless (1999) Little Lights (2001) Ten (2002) Heartlands (picture show soundtrack, 2003) Underneath A Stars (2003) The Girl That Couldn't Fly (2005)

Singles
Cowsong (1999) Withered & Died (2001)