Tanita Tikaram
Tanita Tikaram (born 12 August 1969)[1] is a British pop/folk singer-songwriter.[2] She achieved chart success with the singles "Twist in My Sobriety" and "Good Tradition" from her 1988 debut album, Ancient Heart.
Tanita Tikaram
12 August 1969
Münster, West Germany
Pop, folk
Singer-songwriter
Guitar, piano, bass guitar
1988–present
Background[edit]
Tikaram was born in Münster, West Germany,[1] the daughter of an Indo-Fijian British Army officer, Pramod Tikaram, and a Sarawakian Malay mother, Fatimah Rohani.[3] Because of her father's military career, she spent her early life in Germany before moving to Basingstoke, Hampshire, England in her early teens.[1][4] She is the younger sister of the actor Ramon Tikaram and the great-niece of Sir Moti Tikaram, who was the first Lord Chief Justice of an independent Fiji and the world's longest-serving national ombudsman.[5] She attended Queen Mary's College in Basingstoke.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Tikaram moved from Basingstoke to the Primrose Hill area of north London when she became successful and, as of 2016, still lived there.[8]
In an interview with British lesbian magazine Diva, published in 2017, Tikaram said that she had been in a relationship with multimedia artist Natacha Horn for the past five years,[9] who had produced several of her videos.[10]