MELUA PRAISES BRITAIN FOR KICK-STARTING CAREER
KATIE MELUA feared she would become a housewife if she stayed in her native former Soviet state Georgia - so fled to the U.K. to pursue a music career.
The 23-year-old singer moved to Belfast, Northern Ireland, from the European state when she was eight, before relocating to England at the age of 14.
And Melua is adamant she wouldn’t have fulfilled her dreams of becoming a singer if she had stayed in her home country.
She says, "If I’d stayed in Georgia I would have been destined for an early marriage. I would have been a mother and a housewife.
"When I came to the U.K. I thanked my lucky stars to be living in a country with job opportunities, equality and freedom of speech.
"If I’d been born in Britain, I wouldn’t have been so single-minded about making my own living and delaying getting married. But because of the culture in Georgia, I rebelled against the whole housewife thing."
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