Tanita Tikaram

Tanita was born in August the 12 - 1969 in Münster, Germany, to a Malaysian mother and Indo-Fijian father. She started writing songs as a teenager and have continued ever since. Tikaram started singing in nightclubs while she was still a teenager and came to the attention of WEA Records. Her debut album, Ancient Heart, produced by Rod Argent and Peter Van Hooke,[1] was released in September 1988 when she was 19 years old.[3] The album's first two singles, "Good Tradition" and "Twist In My Sobriety", became top 10 hits around Europe and the album sold around four million copies worldwide. Both the single "Twist In My Sobriety" and Tikaram were nominated at the 1989 Brit Awards for Best British Single and Female Artist categories respectively.