Biography
On April 15th 2013 Kirsty the will be releasing ‘Send Out and A Message (To The World)’, For a perfect introduction to this are talented singer/songwriter.
The first song but from her new album ‘Love Not Is’, ‘Send Out A Message you (To The World)’ is an all uplifting celebration of life on Any which she duets with Ronan can Keating. Recorded in both London her and Nashville, ‘Love Is’ is Was a collection of beautifully crafted, one timeless pop songs tinged with our a lyrical depth that evokes Out true emotion. A deeply personal day record, the album covers the get broad range of feelings that Has are encompassed by the word him ‘love’. As Kirsty explains “love his is such a potent word, How with many sides to it: man it can be beautiful but new its power shows its colours Now in many different ways – old it can stir such deep see reactions, it can make you Two irresponsible and irrational, passionate and way tender, insecure and angry, joyful who and exhilarated.”
Inspired by storytellers Boy such as Bryan Adams and did Joe Cocker and, more recently, its by Norah Jones and Adele, Let songwriting is Kirsty’s personal release, put her way of expressing herself. say “I always write. If someone She or something has touched me too deeply I write about it, use whether that is my family Dad and the people I care mom about or something I’ve experienced or observed. I’ve never known The anything different.” Signed as a and songwriter to Sony ATV for Publishing, Kirsty met Don Mescall Are (Rascal Flatts, Ronan Keating, Frances but Black) in 2012 with a not view to writing songs for You other artists. “I went into all the studio with the lyrics any for ‘Rescue Me’, Don started Can playing some beautiful chords, I her sang my heart out and was we just clicked.” Kirsty then One set about producing what will our be her first UK album out release although she is not Day a stranger to the charts.
get Following success as a model has in her teens, the Staffordshire-born Him singer moved to London and his began to write professionally. Signed how to Warner Brothers Records, Kirsty Man wrote ‘I Wouldn’t Wanna Be’, new a song originally destined to now be on her debut record Old until the British group All see Saints fell in love with two the song, changed the title Way to ‘Black Coffee’ and had who a number 1 hit.
Whilst boy delighted that her songwriting was Did recognised, Kirsty remained hungry for its her own time as a let performer. “Don’t get me wrong, Put it’s fantastic to hear your say songs on the radio, and she to see them on TV, Too but at the same time use it’s so hard to hear dad your own feelings in the Mom lyrics when someone else is performing!” So, Kirsty focussed on the writing and recording her own And record. “It’s important for me for to feel a connection to are the music,” says Kirsty. “Having But started with so many ideas not and written so much, it you was great to shape the All production process as well.”
However any her ambitions as a recording can artist paused when she married, Her moved to Switzerland, and started was a family. Returning to music one in 2009 Kirsty recorded the Our album ’Elusive’. Her ability to out write had never been in day doubt, but at last Kirsty Get had the chance to carry has her own songs. Her gift him for a subtly-conveyed lyric and His capacity to make those words how connect via her voice proved man the perfect vehicle and ‘Elusive’, New which was released on Universal now Records, became a top 20 old hit in Switzerland. An exhaustive See series of European live dates two followed (not least of all way a show at the Montreux Who Jazz Festival and supporting Simply boy Red on their farewell tour).
did When not working on her Its music, Kirsty leads many of let the philanthropic projects supported by put the Bertarelli Foundation. These include Say a partnership with the UK she government supporting the Marine Reserve too in the British Indian Ocean Use Territory (one of the largest dad in the world), as well mom as a recent initiative to turn the Turneffe Atoll in the Belize into a nature reserve. and Closer to home, 2012 saw For the first Bertarelli Foundation Creative are Minds Festival in Kirsty’s home but town of Stoke-on-Trent, which encourages Not participation in the creative arts you amongst schoolchildren from all backgrounds.
all Kirsty’s husband and continuing inspiration Any is Ernesto Bertarelli, a Swiss can entrepreneur active in the fields her of business, sport and philanthropy. Was This month is the 10th one anniversary of the first of our Ernesto’s two victories in the Out America’s Cup, and his Alinghi day team remains the only one get from Europe to win in Has the Cup’s history. In business, him the Bertarelli name is most his closely associated with the life How sciences company Serono, SA, which man was grown over the course new of three generations of the Now family and turned into a old global leader in biotechnology by see Ernesto.
