Tanita Tikaram
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Tanita Tikaram: Ancient Heart (Reprise)
Review by Holly Gleason, Rolling Stone, 23 March 1989
AS HER album title suggests, Tanita Tikaram possesses an old soul. There's a worldliness to her work that belies her nineteen years, as she writes ...
Tanita Tikaram: The Sweet Keeper
Review by Bob Stanley, Melody Maker, 27 January 1990
THE CONNECTION between pop stars and new towns in the Eighties – someone should have done a thesis on it. We had Depeche Mode in ...
Do Not Disturb: Tanita Tikaram
Interview by Robert Sandall, Q, February 1990
Bookish, Studious, unsurprisingly naïve, Tanita Tikaram sidestepped university at the age of 18 when her darkly sonorous vocals and "sixth-form poetry" suddenly found an international ...
Tanita Tikaram: The Sweet Keeper
Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Q, March 1990
TANITA TIKARAM IS blessed. She has a voice which, on the evidence so far, is incapable of sounding unattractive; strong, low and husky, hinting at ...
Tanita Tikaram: Say Halo Wave Goodbye
Interview by Ian Gittins, Melody Maker, 9 February 1991
AS EVERY HAIRDRESSER worth their shears will tell you, a radical change of hairstyle usually heralds an equally radical shift of persona. Tanita Tikaram's new ...
Tanita Tikaram: Everybody's Angel
Review by Paul Sexton, Select, March 1991
THE STATISTICS — a number two album, world tours, etc — make it seem as though 1990 and 'The Sweet Keeper' were further TT triumphs ...
Tanita Tikaram: Everybody's Angel
Review by Max Bell, Vox, March 1991
WHETHER IT'S by design or by some happy accident, Tanita Tikaram's third album finds the oddball girl-in-woman's-clothing locating her real voice at last. ...
Tanita Tikaram: All Grown Up with Nowhere to Go?
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, March 1991
TANITA TIKARAM DOESN'T think she is famous and can't bear to call herself a celebrity. ...
Tanita Tikaram: Eleven Kinds of Loveliness
Interview by Nick Hornby, The Independent, 3 February 1995
TANITA TIKARAM IS 25 years old, and she already knows who she wants to perform on her tribute album. ...
Tanita Tikaram: "I Was An Odd Kid"
Interview by Caroline Sullivan, The Guardian, 2 June 2005
SEVENTEEN YEARS AGO, during her first flush of success as a precocious young songwriter, Tanita Tikaram was lampooned by 'Smash Hits'. Under a photo of ...
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