Titiyo (born Titiyo Yambalu Felicia Jah, 23 July 1967), is a
pop singer-songwriter, from Solna, Sweden. She is stepsister to
Eagle-Eye Cherry, half-sister of
Neneh Cherry, daughter of
Amahdu Jah (her Sierra Leone-born percussionist father, aka
Ahmadu Jarr, of
The Highlife Orchestra) &
Maylen Bergström (her mother). She has won four Swedish Grammys. It was Neneh Cherry who first pointed Titiyo in the direction of performing, encouraging her to sing and prompting her, too, to seek out musical directions that Swedish pop had rarely visited in the past. By 1987, Titiyo was fronting …
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