Támar

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Támar
Background information
Birth name	Ashley Támar Davis
Origin	Houston, Texas United States
Genre(s)	Soul/R&B/Pop
Occupation(s)	Singer
Years active	1990–1993 (group) 2006–present (solo)
Label(s)	Universal Records
Associated acts	Girls Tyme
Website	Official Myspace Tamar Online

Támar (b. Ashley Támar Davis) is an R&B singer who came to prominence through the artist, Prince. She sang the co-lead vocals on the Grammy-nominated song "Beautiful, Loved and Blessed" from Prince's 2006 album, 3121 and on backup vocals throughout the album. Originally, Támar started off her musical career as one of the lead singers in Destiny's Child, when they were still named Girl's Tyme. Prince is romantically linked to Tamar while going through his divorce.

1 Mini-tour with Prince
2 Milk & Honey
- 2.1 Track listing
3 World Premiere
- 3.1 Partial track listing
4 External link

[edit] Mini-tour with Prince

In March, 2006, Támar was supported by Prince with an ensemble of session musicians and performed a number of small club concerts in Philadelphia, Washington, D.C., Atlanta and Miami to promote her upcoming album. The concerts included cuts from her Milk & Honey album, as well as cover versions of such artists as Mary J. Blige and Aretha Franklin. Prince fans were also treated to him performing rare tunes during her costume changes, including "Anotherloverholenyohead", "Partyman" and "Calhoun Square" (from Crystal Ball). Also of interest was the full complement doing a cover of Michael Jackson's "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough" with Prince playing the synthesiser solo from the original recording on the guitar. The concerts were approx. 90 minutes in length. Bootlegs are currently in circulation of some (if not all) of these concerts.

[edit] Milk & Honey

Set to be Támar's debut album, Milk & Honey was originally to be titled Beautiful, Loved and Blessed, but was later renamed after one of the other tracks. The album appeared to feature significant input by Prince: many of the song titles employed his style of abbreviations. Milk & Honey was originally set to be released on May 5, 2006, but was delayed. Several other rumored release dates came and went and the album was eventually canceled, even though a few promotional singles had been issued.