Tami T
Tami T, formerly known as Tami Tamaki, is a Swedish singer songwriter, record producer, and DJ whose work spans electronic, dance-pop, and avant-pop.
Life
Tami T was born in Gothenburg, Sweden, and was part of punk bands as a teenager. They began producing their own music at the age of 18, and upon moving to Leipzig, Germany in 2013 they started making "glitter electronica" under the name Tami Tamaki. Their breakthrough came when their song I Never Loved This Hard This Fast Before was featured in Ester Martin Bergsmark's 2014 film Something Must Break. Their music also appeared on the Norwegian TV series Skam.They began using the artist name Tami T in March 2016, and they are now based in Stockholm. Their debut album High Pitched and Moist was released in 2019 on the label Trannytone Records. When asked about the heavily processed vocals on the album in an interview for the zine FEM, they explained that "by pitching up an octave and auto-tuning it, it became a voice I could identify with and an instrument I wanted to work with". In 2017, they co-produced the song "A Part of Us" on Fever Ray's album Plunge and toured with them.
They aim to blur and redefine the lines of gender and gender identity with their music and art; they intentionally refrain from defining their own gender identity.