For Brittany Howard, Grammy-winning solo artist and frontwoman for the Alabama Shakes, Tina Turner was a lifelong hero. After Turner’s death, Howard shared some thoughts on her life and work.
Since I was just a little kid, my mother wanted me to see Tina Turner. The first time I saw Tina on television, my mom was like, “This is really important. You need to see this.” And it was legs, and it was hair, and it was running all over the place. I’d never seen anything like it. It was ferocious. For my mother, I think she symbolized power and strength. Because life for my mother wasn’t easy, either. A lot of pain, a lot of heartbreak, a lot of suffering.
“Proud Mary” is a song we sang together as a family from a really young age. But, in the Eighties when she did, being in her forties and releasing music like that, moving like that, being very singular, a Black woman singing rock & roll, that was hugely inspiring to me as a student of music and as someone who also wants to express myself in a loud, bold way.
I want to actually see more older, wiser people getting their chance to tell their story in popular media. Seeing Tina in my life from such a young age, a woman acting like that, singing like that, sweating, and having muscles, having no care in the world, and having this freedom, I know what that did for me as a young girl and then growing into a woman.
Out of her entire catalog of work, I gotta go with “Simply the Best.” But I also really love “What’s Love Got to Do With It.” It took me a couple of decades to even understand the lyrics of the song. And then once they clicked, I mean they. That was wisdom. From the Ike and Tina years, I love that song “Funkier Than a Mosquito’s Tweeter.” That’s my jam because she’s talking all this smack about Ike. And she was obviously the best part of Ike and Tina.
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