KT Tunstall wears a metallic mini dress as she celebrates her 50th Birthday and 20 years of debut album with a performance at Royal Albert Hall
Performing on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall on Monday, the singer wore a metallic mini dress with a tiered skirt.
She teamed the purple metallic number with a pair of sequinned fishnet stockings and Dr Marten boots.
KT topped off her quirky look with a pair of glitzy earrings and styled her hair into various plaits.
The musician is best known for her 2004 multi-million-selling album Eye to the Telescope, featuring global single Suddenly I See.
She will next support Simple Minds on their UK tour before performing at a number of festivals over the summer.
Last month, KT has revealed she went deaf in one ear after attending a Spice Girls concert.
The Suddenly I See hitmaker explained on Channel Ten 's The Project on Wednesday night she had travelled on a long flight to get to the concert.
However, the pressure of the flight and the loud music at the show led to her suffering from sensorineural hearing loss (SSHL).
'I lost my hearing on tour in 2018 on one side. [Earlier] I had come off a long haul flight and I went to a Spice Girls concert which was amazing,' KT explained.
'I guess it was a combination of working too hard, travelling too much and something too loud and I lost some of my hearing.'
KT revealed she suffered from vertigo for three months but it eventually disappeared.
The Scottish singer recently told OK! magazine: 'It was a huge shock. I'm 97 per cent deaf in that ear now and can't use a hearing aid because it's gone too far....
'I'm not blaming the Spice Girls, but I think it overloaded my nervous system. I woke up with ringing in my ear, like I'd gone underwater. I couldn't hear the car indicator or a shower in another room.'
She continued: 'But the worst part wasn't the deafness, it was the vertigo.'
'I lost my balance completely, for two or three months. That was really disabling. Thankfully it passed, and I can still write, record, perform - just in mono.
'I started seeing it as a message from the universe telling me to slow down, look after myself. I still tour, but I'm more careful.'
Speaking ahead of her 50th birthday and 20th anniversary of her breakthrough album, KT admitted she feels like it is the end of an era but that she is proud of her age and how she remains a force in the music industry.
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