Tanita Tikaram

来自英国的民谣女歌手Tanita Tikaram.Tanita Tikaram 是马来与斐济的混血，12岁移居到英国并开始创作歌曲，17岁举办了自己的第一个小型音乐会，其后便开始在电视里露面，并很快签约到华纳唱片，于1988年推出了她的第一张专辑《古典的心》(Ancient Heart)。Tanita Tikaram，她至今已发表过七张专辑，最近的一张是2005年的《Sentimental》，她的歌一直变化不大，优美的曲调、简单的配器，或许这些年她的生活已经有过不为人知的起伏跌宕，但在唱片里，她仍旧是那么深情款款。
by Steve Huey
Tanita Tikaram made a splash on both sides of the Atlantic at a mere 19 years of age with her dramatic, singer/songwriter-influenced lyrics. The offspring of Malaysian and Fijian parents, Tikaram moved to England at age 12 and began writing songs as a teenager. She played her first gig at 17 in London after a favorable response to her demo tape from a club she had sent it to. After appearing on television, Tikaram was signed to Warner and released Ancient Heart, co-produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke, in 1988. Both "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" were hits in Europe, and Tikaram toured the world. With the follow-up album, 1990's The Sweet Keeper, Tikaram began to settle into the status of a cult act, a situation not changed by the less consistent albums Everybody's Angel (1991) and Eleven Kinds of Loneliness (1992). Still, Tikaram began to bounce back in 1995 with the album Lovers in the City; she moved to Polygram for 1998's The Cappuccino Songs. Seven years passed before she returned with Sentimental with special guest Nick Lowe appearing on two tracks.