Tina Turner — who died in Switzerland on Wednesday at 83 — endured a life so cruel, we can only wonder whether all the books, memoirs, Hollywood dramatizations and documentaries fully plumbed the depths of it, writes Chris Richards in Perspectives.
Either way, that friction is responsible for some of the most unmistakable music ever generated by the human body — and because we know so much about what this voice has been through, we explain its visceral majesty to ourselves in the most sobering way: It’s the sound of someone who knows pain., endured a life so cruel, we can only wonder whether all the books, memoirs, Hollywood dramatizations and documentaries fully plumbed the depths of it.
As she triumphed through the ’80s, you could hear a fresh joy in her singing, too — a trait that hadn’t felt as abundant since “,” a signature Ike and Tina song from 1966, co-written and co-produced by “wall of sound” man Phil Spector. Apparently, Spector had shooed Ike away from this fateful recording session, then encouraged Tina to tamp down the explosiveness, allowing her to squeeze more melody into the lyrics.
In the ’80s, she trained it to sing the most massive hits of her career. When “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” first hit the airwaves, the rasping humanity of Turner’s voice instantly distinguished itself from all the plush, sleek synthesizer textures that were saturating the radio circa 1984 — even the ones that she and her producers had chosen for her to sing over.
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