-- Tajmah came to New Orleans with her mother from Connecticut. Having had no professional dance training, she started her career in 1956 as an exotic dancer in Bourbon Street nightclub called the Torch Club where her mother worked as a waitress by emulating the other dancers and watching dance movies at the mere age of thirteen! Tajmah perfected the art of the exotic dance to become a star attraction at "Ciro’s" in an act called, “The Spider and the Virgin”.

-- The newspaper ads called it the “most unusual stage production ever seen,” and described the act thus: “monstrous spider casts a hypnotic spell over a bayou beauty.” With a large 3-D spider in a giant web as she performed behind her, Tajmah would portray a young maiden who is sacrificed to the spider in this ritualistic act and at the time she performed in “The Spider and the Virgin,” she was not portraying a virgin, she really was a virgin.

-- Tajmah danced in the clubs performing an exotic “Jewel of the Orient” number which she became known. Tajmah’s mother, Tina Marie decided to follow in her daughter’s footsteps and put a strip act of her own together.

-- Tajmah hated being considered a stripper. She preferred the term "exotic dancer," Tajmah considered her exotic dance as an art, regardless of what may be in the minds of the audience. Tajmah married a drummer by the name of Louis Dillon and had two Children.