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Donald's Encyclopedia of Popular MusicA B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y ZTIKARAM, Tanita(b 8 Dec. '69, Munster, Germany) Singer, songwriter, guitarist of Malaysian and Fijian parentage; the family moved to Basingstoke, England '81. As a mixed-race teenager she got a lot of consideration from the trendy UK music press after her first gig '87 and signed to WEA; her single 'Twist In My Sobriety' and debut album Ancient Heart (prod. by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke) did well and charted in the USA early '89. In fact she had a good voice which reminded some of a folk-pop Marlene Dietrich, and her intense lyrics belied her age; her second album The Sweet Keeper '90 was overproduced, followed by Everybody's Angel '91, co-prod. in the USA with Argent and Van Hooke; these made the top 200 albums in the USA, but the first two had reached no. 3 in the UK. Self-prod. Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness '92 did not do as well; she took a break until Lovers In The City '95 with a huge cast incl. Jim Keltner, David Lindley, Jennifer Warnes etc. She also guested on Moodswings' third album Psychedelicatessen '97, singing Bob Marley's 'Redemption Song'. |