Editing Tanita Tikaram (section)

==Background==
Tikaram was born in [[Münster]], West Germany,<ref name="Larkin" /> the daughter of an [[Indo-Fijian]] British Army officer, Pramod Tikaram, and a [[Sarawak]]ian [[Malay people|Malay]] mother, Rohani Tikaram.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=Deevoy |first=Adrian |date=5 March 1991 |title=Tanika Tikaram's Record Collection |journal=[[Q Magazine]] |volume=55 |pages=20–22}}</ref> Because of her father's military career, she spent her early life in Germany before moving to [[Basingstoke]], [[Hampshire]], England in her early teens.<ref name="Larkin">{{Cite book |title=[[Encyclopedia of Popular Music|The Virgin Encyclopedia of Popular Music]] |date=1997 |publisher=[[Virgin Books]] |isbn=1-85227-745-9 |editor-last=Colin Larkin |editor-link=Colin Larkin (writer) |edition=Concise |page=1180}}</ref><ref name="The Great Rock Discography">{{Cite book |last=Strong |first=Martin C. |title=The Great Rock Discography |publisher=Mojo Books |year=2000 |isbn=1-84195-017-3 |edition=5th |location=Edinburgh |pages=993–994}}</ref> She is the younger sister of the actor [[Ramon Tikaram]] and the great-niece of [[Moti Tikaram|Sir Moti Tikaram]], who was the first [[Chief Justice of Fiji|Lord Chief Justice of an independent Fiji]] and the world's longest-serving national [[ombudsman]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Karan |first=Maneesha |date=14 February 2007 |title=Sir Moti relives early days |url=http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?ref=archive&id=57009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927191606/http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?ref=archive&id=57009 |archive-date=27 September 2007 |access-date=14 August 2012 |work=[[Fiji Times]]}}</ref> She attended [[Queen Mary's College, Basingstoke|Queen Mary's College]] in Basingstoke.<ref>{{Cite web |date=12 February 2017 |title=Songwriter returns to roots of her success |url=https://www.basingstokegazette.co.uk/news/15085258.tanita-tikaram-set-to-return-to-queen-marys-college-for-special-show/ |access-date=2021-11-21 |website=Basingstoke Gazette |language=en}}</ref>