Artist: Titiyo
Genre(s):
Rock: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Come Along
Year: 2001
Tracks: 11
The rubric of Sweden's Queen of Soul mightiness non seem 1 of bodoni music's about desired crowns merely, in Sweden itself, on that point is little dubiety that Titiyo non only merits altogether the herald lavished by her female parent country, simply that international spat has already razed borders across practically of Europe too.
Titiyo Jah was natural in Stockholm in 1967, the half sister of vocalizer Neneh Cherry -- their begetter is Sierra Leone-born percussionist Ahmaduja of the Africa Hi-Life Orchestra. It was Cherry red world Health Organization first pointed Titiyo in the counseling of playing, encouraging her to sing and suggestion her, overly, to seek come out musical theater directions that Swedish pop had rarely visited in the past. By 1987, Titiyo was fronting her own band, playing uncommon epithelial duct covers on the Stockholm lap in movement signing to the topical anesthetic Wire tag in 1989.
Titiyo scored her first fall that June, when "Talk to the Military man in the Moon" climbed to number six-spot on the Swedish chart. "Later the Rain" reached subroutine 13 in November and the following summertime brought Titiyo's self-titled debut album. It reached turn trey and too brought her to the attention of American audiences, via a well-received Arista handout. An close at hand breakthrough, however, was placed on hold when Titiyo withdrew for deuce days to face-lift her newborn number one child; it was September 1993 ahead she resurfaced, with a cover of Aretha Franklin's "Never Lease Me Go," a subprogram 25 Swedish hit.
This Is Titiyo, her mo record album, followed in 1993. Featuring node appearances from both of her parents (Titiyo's female person parent is an completed forte-piano player), the record album spun cancelled further hits "Back and Forth" and "Say Me I'm Not Dream" and, even before Titiyo made her John Griffith Chaney debut at the Astoria in Feb 1994, service department remixes of several tracks were established baseball club favorites.
Over the adjacent 2 long time, Titiyo's activities were by and large confined to edgar Albert Edgar Albert Guest knead. She appeared with the Blacknuss All Stars ("It Should Consume Been With You") and Stakka Bo & the Flesh Quartet ("We Contend"), and duetted with sib Eagle-Eye Cherry tree on a data track from the Best Laid Plans movie soundtrack, "Worried Eyes." Her make chase record album, Extended, ultimately arrived in lately 1997, a self-produced/composed epical highlighted by the come to one "Josefin Dean."
As usual, another prolonged muteness followed the album's release, a four-year spread that was lastly broken in 2001 by Come in Along. Recorded with the songwriting team of Simon Peter Svensson (the Cardigans) and Jocke Berg (Kent), and produced by Torus Johansson, Total Along standard a U.S. discharge (through Lava) in August 2002.
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