KT Tunstall has expressed sympathy for new musicians ahead of her acceptance of the Ivor Novello award for outstanding song collection.
The 48-year-old Scottish singer-songwriter is due to be honoured at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London on Thursday. Speaking ahead of the event, KT expressed the "most meaningful" award has been a huge surprise.
She will share the spotlight with Bruce Springsteen, who is set to make history at the awards as the first international songwriter to receive an Ivors Academy fellowship.Speaking at the red carpet to the PA news agency, Tunstall said the prize was “extremely special” and she was lucky she did not have to “practice my happy loser face”.Tunstall added: “I think it’s the most meaningful award I’ve ever had and it just feels like a massive hug, which spending 20 years really doing my best… work I’ve been able to do so it’s a wonderful, wonderful thing to happen, pretty unexpected as well.”She added she was “gobsmacked” when she was told by Tom Gray, who the Scottish singer had been working with on the broken record campaign to “try and make streaming a reasonable income for a writer”.When asked about why there has not been stronger action on getting revenues from streaming music, Tunstall said: “It was very much a case of the industry just not keeping his eye on the ball, including us musicians. Join the Daily Record's WhatsApp community here and get the latest news sent straight to your messages. “And once people get something for next to nothing, it’s extremely difficult to go backwards on that.
I don’t know what the future looks like, but I’m certainly willing and able to be part of galvanising musicians together to try and change because, I feel so bad for new
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