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Born | 1989 London, United Kingdom |
Residence | London, United Kingdom |
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Years active | 2014–present |
Website | talatalatala |
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Labels | Aesop Columbia Records |
Tālā (stylized as TĀLĀ) is the stage name of London-based musician Jasmin Tadjiky. She was raised in Kingston, South London, and attended a catholic school in Twickenham until she was 16, when she attended the BRIT School. She started learning to play music with piano lessons, jamming with her sitar- and tabla-playing father. She started making electronic music after being given the Reason music software as a teenager. TĀLĀ is not her real name, but rather chosen for its meaning ('gold' in Farsi).
She is heavily influenced by modern pop and electronic music.. Her debut performance was as a support vocalist for T.Williams on a track called "On My Own" in 2013. TĀLĀ released two records in 2014: her first extended play, The Duchess, and a single through the independent Aesop label. She was then signed up to Columbia Records and released a further EP, Alchemy, in November 2014.
The video for the track "Serbia" was produced with Katia Danfield. Filmed in Morocco, the video was filmed on a shoestring budget and features the girls' sight-seeing.
TĀLĀ was featured on BBC1 by Alice Levine and Phil Taggart and was championed by the producer SOHN. In 2015, she began performing live gigs.