Tina Turner completed a lot in her 50-year profession that her presence on the all-star charity single “We Are the World” didn’t get numerous consideration following her demise on Wednesday at age 83. However she was a featured vocalist on that high-profile single, which was recorded at A&M Studios in Hollywood on Jan. 28, 1985 – proper after that 12 months’s American Music Awards.
Turner was the primary feminine voice listeners heard on the recording by a collective of 44 singers (21 featured vocalists and 23 further artists within the refrain) dubbed USA for Africa (quick for United Help of Artists for Africa). The smash logged 4 weeks atop the Billboard Scorching 100 in April and Could 1985. It received the Grammy for document of the 12 months in February 1986, one 12 months after Turner received in that marquee class for her comeback smash “What’s Love Bought to Do With It.”
With Turner’s demise, only one month after the demise of musician and activist Harry Belafonte — who was the principle driving power behind “We Are the World” — 10 of the singers on the smash have handed on. The primary to die was Waylon Jennings in 2002, adopted by Ray Charles in 2004 and June Pointer of The Pointer Sisters in 2006.
Michael Jackson, who co-wrote the tune with Lionel Richie and was featured on the recording, died in 2009, adopted by Al Jarreau in 2017, James Ingram in 2019 and Kenny Rogers in 2020. Rogers was managed in his Nineteen Eighties heyday by Ken Kragen, who Belafonte enlisted to carry the imaginative and prescient to life. Kragen died in 2021.
Anita Pointer of The Pointer Sisters died in December 2022, adopted by Belafonte on April 25, and now Turner.
Jackson and Richie received Grammys for tune of the 12 months for co-writing the tune, however not one of the artists on the recording have been awarded Grammys. The Recording Academy elected to offer the document of the 12 months prize, and one other the recording received – finest pop efficiency by a duo or group with vocal – solely to the only’s producer, Quincy Jones. Jones received a 3rd Grammy on the night time as video producer of “We Are the World – The Video Occasion,” which received finest music video, quick type. (The video director, Tom Trbovich, additionally received in that class).
Jones and Richie are nonetheless residing, as are many of the different members. The opposite singers on the document included: Stevie Marvel, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Diana Ross, Dionne Warwick, Willie Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, Kenny Loggins, Steve Perry, Cyndi Lauper, Kim Carnes, Bob Dylan, Lindsey Buckingham, Sheila E., Jeffrey Osborne, Smokey Robinson, Ruth Pointer of The Pointer Sisters and Daryl Corridor and John Oates.
Additionally: Huey Lewis and 5 previous or current members of his band, The Information; Dan Aykroyd and Bette Midler, who had co-hosted the primary MTV Video Music Awards in September 1984; Bob Geldof, the driving power behind the 1984 U.Ok. charity single “Do They Know It’s Christmas?,” which impressed this American response; and 5 of Jackson’s siblings – however not Janet, who broke by means of with Management the next 12 months.
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