And you need not look far to find artists similar to Tuner: soulful women who are turning personal pain into big artistic gain. "So I say, 'Well, take me to Disneyworld.'"Ī reality check will tell you that life's no amusement park. "My manager's always trying to get me to write happy songs," Turner kids. I went through a lot, and I think that's why God gave me this outlet, because He knew that I was going to need it." Turner's two independent releases, not surprisingly, are loaded with songs that speak openly about her tough times. Also, my mother was real sick when I was a child, and we didn't know if she was going to make it at one point. "The worst thing was losing my father, because I was a real daddy's girl," she says. ![]() No doubt about it, this young lady has already experienced more than her share of deep loss. When asked to recall the first song that convinced her that she had true talent, she mentions "Remembering," which appears on her self-titled CD, "I wrote that when I think I was 12. I really just wrote because I couldn't get out what I was feeling in any other way." Amazingly, Turner evolved into a skillful songwriter at a tender age. "I never even had these big dreams of being on a stage or pursuing a career. "When I started writing, I only wrote because I was in a lot of pain," she confesses. And Turner began her musical journey by focusing on an extremely critical audience of one - herself. Turner enthusiastically embraces an all-things-to-all-people ethic (even though it's hard to imagine her uniquely personalized style going over particularly well at, say, an accordion-saturated polka festival). I've played a polka festival, and it was definitely the oddest experience." "In don't care if I'm in a church or I'm in a bar or I'm in a Wal-Mart parking lot. "I really just want to sing for everybody!" she exclaims. ![]() In contrast, Alisa Turner is a talented singer/songwriter, who is by no means a market-minded artist. Marketing executives generously throw around insider terms like "target audience" and "demographic." Their livelihood thrives upon narrowcasting with strict tunnel vision.
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