Name	Katie Melua
Height	5' 2
Naionality	Georgia ussr
Date of Birth	16 September 1984,
Place of Birth	Georgia, USSR
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Ketevan Melua was born in Kutaisi, Georgia, which then was part of the Soviet Union, in 1984 and spent her first years with her grandparents in the capital Tbilisi before moving, with her parents and brother, to the town of Batumi, Ajaria where her father worked as a heart specialist.[8] During this time Melua experienced severe poverty, having to carry buckets of water up four flights of stairs to her family's flat.[9][10] Melua would later cite this experience as the reason why she shuns certain materialistic aspects of fame and fortune.[11]

In 1993, in the aftermath of the Georgian Civil War, the family moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, where her father took up a position at the prestigious Royal Victoria Hospital. Whilst living in Belfast, Melua attended Roman Catholic schools, St. Catherine's Primary School and Dominican College, Fortwilliam, while her younger brother attended Protestant schools.[2] The family moved again to Redhill, Surrey, in 1998, although Melua recently moved out of the family home in favour of an apartment in the Paddington area of London, where she has transformed the spare bedroom into a recording studio. As a result of her diverse upbringing at an early age, Melua can speak three languages: Georgian, Russian and English.