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Katell Keineg was born in Brittany and was brought up both there and in Wales. In the mid-nineties, after a spell in Ireland, she went to live in New York and was quickly embraced by the buzzing cafe scene around St Mark's Place's Sin-e. In 1993, while building her reputation for "conveying a nearly beatific sense of joy in performance" (Los Angeles Times), she released a seven-inch single on Bob Mould's SOL Records label. That same year, Katell sang on Iggy Pop's "American Caesar" and following his passing of her single on to Elektra, they signed her and released her...