page_title: Katie White
section_title: The Ting Tings
hierarchical_section_title: Katie White / Career / The Ting Tings
caption_attribution_description: English: Photograph taken on October 23, 2008 at The Ting Tings concert at the Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, GA by Matthew Gibbons. Photograph is of The Ting Tings' lead vocalist, Katie White.
context_page_description: Katie Rebecca White is an English musician and member of the pop duo The Ting Tings. After some success with a girl group punk trio TKO, which supported Steps and Atomic Kitten, her father David K. White brought in Jules De Martino to write songs for TKO. Katie White and De Martino subsequently formed the Ting Tings in 2007.
context_section_description: White and De Martino started a band in 2007 with White on vocals, guitar, piano and bass drum and De Martino  on vocals, drums, bass, guitar and keyboards. They started writing songs together and doing short concerts. White was working in a boutique with a Chinese girl called "Ting Ting", which sounds like Mandarin Chinese for "band stand" (亭) or "listening" (聽) and White used it as the name for the band. The Ting Tings started by playing for private parties at the Islington Mill arts centre in Salford and their debut album, We Started Nothing, was released on 19 May 2008. Their follow-up album, Sounds from Nowheresville, was released on 27 February 2012 in the UK, and 15 March in the United States.  In 2014, White told the Daily Record that comments by internet trolls had previously caused her to stop writing songs for six months. In 2015, she sustained a tendon injury to her left hand that caused the band to cancel its U.S. tour.
caption: White playing the guitar at Variety Playhouse in Atlanta, Georgia on 23 October 2008
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