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Tanita Tikaram

Folk
Folk

Tanita Tikaram is a Folk act. Their sound grew out of Redemption Song and Lucio Battisti. Those roots explain a lot about how Tanita Tikaram arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as T'Pau, Annie Lennox, Kirsty MacColl, Amy Macdonald and Jennifer Warnes, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Sirenia, Kati Kovács, Mark Isham and Nanci Griffith, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 28 connections around Tanita Tikaram, reaching back through Redemption Song and forward to Sirenia. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.

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Roots — what shaped themLegacy — who they shapedKindred — same orbit
Tanita TikaramRedemption SongLucio BattistiSireniaKati KovácsMark IshamNanci GriffithT'PauAnnie LennoxKirsty MacCollAmy MacdonaldJennifer WarnesTracy ChapmanJoan ArmatradingBelinda Carlisle

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Tanita Tikaram connections

Tanita Tikaram grew out of Redemption Song and Lucio Battisti, shares an orbit with T'Pau, Annie Lennox, Kirsty MacColl and Amy Macdonald, went on to shape Sirenia, Kati Kovács, Mark Isham and Nanci Griffith. 28 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.

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