Katie Melua: My family values

The musician talks about her family and growing up in GeorgiaI grew up in Georgia where my parents, little brother Zurab and I shared a flat with my paternal grandparents and two uncles in the capital, Tbilisi. Times were hard and the country was racked by civil war. My parents, both health professionals, received a meagre stipend from the state health service, and privations were commonplace. Bread meant queueing for hours, the power supply failed regularly and water had to be gathered from an ...

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