Titiyo

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Titiyo Yambalu Felicia Jah (born July 23 1967) is a Swedish singer.

Titiyo Jah grew up in Solna, Sweden and discovered her own singing abilities when invited by her older half-sister Neneh Cherry to sing with her at a studio in London. She also recorded backing vocals for a range of Swedish artists, including Army of Lovers. In 1989 Titiyo hit the Swedish charts in her own right with Man in the Moon, the first soul hit in Sweden, and instantly became the representative of black music in Sweden. But towards the end of the nineties her success had decreased as her novelty wore off and new acts such as Robyn had appeared.

In 2001 Titiyo made a comeback with her successful album Come Along, spawning the international hit with the same name. The album was co-written by Peter Svensson from The Cardigans and Joakim Berg from the band Kent. Her Greatest Hits includes a few new songs, amongst them Loving out of Nothing, charting in Scandinavia in early 2005.

Titiyo has been awarded four Swedish Grammis.

In the UK charts she charted with three singles: in 1990 with After The Rain (which peaked at #60, charted for 3 weeks), Flowers (peaked at #71, charted for 1 week) and in 1994 with Tell Me I'm Not Dreaming (which peaked at #45, charted for 2 weeks) Her 2001 comeback album and single "Come Along" made it to #1 in the swedish charts (both the single and album) and made the top 20 in France and the album made the top 10 in Germany (#10) and the single made the top 20 (#11). Come Along was also very succesfull in Switzrland where the album peaked at #25 and stayed on the charts for 14 weeks, and the single peaked at #22 staying on the charts for 32 weeks. The second single from the album "1989" peaked on the swiss charts at #83 staying on the charts for 3 weeks.

[edit] Discography

[edit] Albums

1990: Titiyo
1993: This Is Tityo
1997: Extended
2001: Come Along
2004: Best Of Titiyo
2006: A Collection Of Songs (European edition of "Best Of Titiyo" with the same tracks)