Happiness Becomes You by Tina Turner

Author:Tina Turner
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2020-12-02T00:00:00+00:00

The most sacred place

isn’t the church, the mosque, or the temple,

it’s the temple of the body.

That’s where spirit lives.

—SUSAN TAYLOR

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The kingdom of God is within you.

—LUKE 17:21

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More valuable than treasures in a storehouse

are treasures of the body, and the treasures of the heart

are the most valuable of all.

—NICHIREN

I didn’t want to reject the “sex symbol” view of me, since people seemed to like it, so I decided to make that persona mine. I owned it by playing mostly to my female fans, not to the men in the audience, and I did this for two reasons. I didn’t want the women at my shows to feel uncomfortable because they thought I was going after their men. And I wanted to encourage women to reveal their own “phenomenal woman,” as Maya Angelou wrote in her poem by that name.

The truth is, you can challenge yourself to find a higher purpose in anything you do at work, or in life. Then you can own it, embrace it, and do your best at it. That is human revolution.

Believe it or not, choosing songs for my albums has also been an exercise in growth. There have been songs I initially disliked and didn’t want to sing that ultimately became big hits for me. I had to open my mind, partly because I trusted my manager Roger’s keen ear for a hit, but also because I decided to step outside my comfort zone and give something unfamiliar a chance.

When I did that, I began to hear deeper meaning and greater potential in songs that I had rejected hastily. In the process of opening up to something that was initially uncomfortable, I made the songs my own, adding nuances that communicated a different meaning and subtext to my audiences and expanded the song’s potential, along with my own.

Before committing to a song, I have to visualize how I might perform it onstage. I imagine it from start to finish before recording a single word. If the song ends up being a hit, I’ll have to sing it over and over, and I want to make sure it will have meaning for me and my audiences for years to come.

Going through this process and stretching my boundaries is how I created some of my most successful songs and performances. And I’m grateful that I did.

Could you imagine my career without “What’s Love Got to Do with It”? That was my biggest hit, and by far the most beloved and transformational song for me and for my fans.

But it was one of the songs I didn’t like when I first heard it! If I hadn’t been willing to go outside my comfort zone, open my mind a little wider, and do the extra work it took to make it mine, who knows if I would have broken through in my career.

A more recent example: When I was approached with the idea of a musical theater production about my life, I wasn’t interested. There were many reasons for me to say no.

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