Tanita Tikaram (born 12 August 1969) is a British singer-songwriter, known for her exotic, low voice. Her brother is Ramon Tikaram. Tikaram, of Malaysian and Indo-Fijian ancenstry, was born in Münster, Germany, but since her early teens has lived in the UK. Her debut album Ancient Heart was released when she was just 19. The album was a huge hit all over Europe, while the first two singles Good Tradition and Twist In My Sobriety reached Top 10. The follow-up album The Sweet Keeper used the recipe of the debut and was quite successful, but yielded no big hits.

Tikaram stepped up as a co-producer on her third album Everybody's Angel and produced the fourth, Eleven Kinds Of Loneliness, solely by herself. While both were solid works, they sold gradually less. Yet, on Loneliness, Tikaram came on her own as artist. Tikaram started to spend more time abroad, finding collaborators in the USA, Italy and France. Lovers in the City (1995) is perhaps her most introspective work so far. On The Cappuccino Songs from 1998 Tikaram released some of her most accessible pop tracks so far. After spending several years under the radar, Tikaram returned in 2005 with the jazzy, low-key Sentimental album. Since then Tikaram found home with the German Ear Music label and has released two albums, the Americana and Motown influenced Can't Go Back (2012) and Closer To The People (2016).