Singer-songwriter Tanita Tikaram wrote her huge hit Twist In My Sobriety, when she was only 16 years old. It was released when she was 19.
She thinks it originated from her love of music and literature. Her family thought she was just studying for her A-levels up in her bedroom, but she was also writing music. “I was also very introverted, but then I would suddenly be very opinionated. I feel like there was something brewing when I was a teenager … I was really interested in culture and learning, but I wasn’t really good at school until I got older … I was terrible at sciences. I was really bad at mathematics. And the only thing that interested me was humanities.”
Tikaram is now in her mid-fifties and living in north London. She’s lived there on and off since she was 20, but as a child she travelled a lot as her father was in the milit
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