The music industry is full of many great artists. Many of these artists contribute to household names. Two of these artists are Tina Turner and Beyonce. n order to understand the greatness of a great artist you need to understand the difference between them. Beyonce and Tina Turner are different in their appearance, genre of music, and how they were discovered. The way Tina Turner and Beyonce appear to the public is seemingly different. Tina Turner wears sequined, exotic rock stage clothing. She is extraordinary and dresses with a themes such as when she dressed like a tiger in a jungle. In the 1980's she wore an outfit with wings for her "jumping jack flash" entrance. She also wore a Native American style jungle outfit inspired by Sheena the Jungle Queen. On the other hand, Beyonce dresses sexy and fierce and she sometimes comes off as a sexual image and a nit feminist. Beyonce shows more of her sexual dressing on stage and she dresses more elegant outside of performing. Beyonce expresses her individuality through her clothes and she can dress classy, but she always adds a little taste of sexy to it. Therefore, Tina Turner and Beyonce's appearance is different. …show more content…
Beyonce and Tina Turner have different musical genres.
Tina Turner generally sings Pop, Rock and Roll, and Soul. She sometimes incorporates some R&B into her music. Turner normally sings about survival, considering she survived having an abusive husband and she puts as much soul as she can in her songs. She received an award in 1986 for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and an award for Best Rock Performance by a Duo Group with Ike Turner. However, Beyonce generally sings R&B and sometimes includes other genres in her music. Most of her songs are about love, sex, relationships, enabling of women, and stability. She got a golden gramophone for Best R&B Performance at the 2015 Grammy
Awards. Not only are Beyonce and Tina Turner's musical genres and aesthetics different but also the way they discovered. Tina Turner was discovered by Ike Turner, which is not her ex-husband. He called her on stage to sing with the Kings of Rhythm in 1956 and he planned to put her in his song "A Fool in Love" because the person scheduled to sing did not show. He loved how stunning she sounded, and the song "A Fool in love" turned out to be a hit on the pop charts. She became a part of the group and the spotlight of their hits. Meanwhile, Beyonce started an all-girl singing group with her cousin Kelly Rowland, LeToya Luckett, and Lativa Roberson. They started on a talent show circuit in 1992 by performing on a game show. Beyonce's father quit his job to be a full time manager of their group. They called their group Destiny's Child. Beyonce's dad eventually negotiated with Columbia Records in 1997 for a record deal. In time, Beyone and the group member went their separate ways and Beyonce continued her singing career. The peak of her singing career was the release of her first album Dangerously in Love. Thus, Beyonce and Tina Turner were introduced to the music industry in two entirely different ways. Beyonce and Tina Turner are different in many ways being their public appearance, musical genres, and the way they were discovered. These two artists are significant to pop culture and are great individuals. Beyonce generally sings R&B while, Tina Turner likes to spice it up with some rock. Tina Turner dresses according to a theme and so outrageous, on the other hand Beyonce is more of a sexy, elegant dresser. Tina Turner was discovered by her ex-husbad and Beyonce was discovered through an all-girls singing group. In conclusion, these two talented recording artists are important to the music industry and contributed various things to music.
John Brown was a radical who believed he was led by god to evoke a war on pro-slavery activists and slave owners in order to diminish slavery. At the age of 59 Brown set out to put a team of anti-slavery abolitionist and free black men together, call them an army and execute his plan. However only 21 people enlisted mainly whites, 13, no slaves or free blacks joined. As surprising as this was to Brown it surprises me too. I wonder if the blacks were scared. Why didn’t they jump at every opportunity and chance to free those oppressed by the inhumane of slavery? Maybe they had their own plans to victory in the works. Brown still pursued his plan and went fourth with his 21 men. Although a follower of Christ, John believed the only way to overthrow
What do Clint Black, Bob Dylan, Toad the, Wet Sprocket, and Tina Turner have in common? Their music has its roots in not only the old murder ballads and the raw dance of poor southern whites, but also the blues, the hollers, and the sung of poor blacks. Black rhythm and blues and white country-western merged in such figure as Elvis Presley and Chuck Berry in 1950s. Rock and roll was created by blacks and whites together as a new music filled with power and mystery.
As we know about These hero’s I want to contrast a little about them. I want to start with Fannie Lou Hamer she was an southern sharecropper in which she was poor. She had dropped out of school when she was 12 years old to help out on the farm. But she always had been had all of her life. No she didn’t wait on a bus until an white man told her to move to make a change. She pushed herself by doing things any man think that a woman could not do. As you know she joined the SNCC. Hamer founded Mississippi’s Freedom Democratic party.
...ey choose to represent themselves. S ikivu Hutchinson writes that 20 Feet From Stardom is an example of how “women of color back-up singers are still treated like expendable objects, eye candy and soulful exotics while fighting tooth and nail for recognition and a shot at center stage.” None of the women in 20 Feet had exceptional solo careers because within the historical context they would never be respected as solo artist unless they asserted themselves in a sexual way that would be on the same level of Elvis. This would be harder for an African-American woman because they are already sexualized as back-up singers. There would be then a need for overt sexualization as displayed by Tina Turner. Although Tina Turner is an extraordinary performer her success is banked on that overt sexualization where’s the women of 20 Feet hoped to rely on their vocal talents.
Josephine Baker Josephine Baker was an African American woman who had to overcome discrimination and abuse in achieving her dream of becoming a singer and dancer. She did this during the 1920s, when African Americans faced great discrimination. She had a hard childhood. Her personal life was not easy to handle. Furthermore, she overcame poverty and racism to achieve her career dream.
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