Chanel Haynes claims she was sacked from ‘Tina’ musical after singing with The Rolling Stones
nme.comTina: The Tina Turner Musical, after singing with The Rolling Stones.The musician had been portraying Tina Turner in a West End production of Tina but was offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to perform ‘Gimme Shelter’ with The Rolling Stones in Milan.Haynes appeared with the Stones in place of their longstanding backup singer, Sasha Allen, who sat the Milan show out for an unspecified reason.
A mentee of the iconic Quincy Jones, Haynes is best known as one third of the gospel trio Trinitee 5:7. More recently, she played the lead role in the UK’s production of Tina.“I can’t say exactly when I got the call because I don’t want to give timelines,” Haynes told Rolling Stone magazine about the offer from the legendary rock band. “But I’ll tell you that there was was very little notice.
Very little. Everybody was biting their nails. ‘How are we going to pull this off?’ But I tell you the machine the Stones have is like Buckingham Palace or the White House.
They have the same level of personnel. Next thing I knew, I was on a plane to Milan.”She then went on to detail her rehearsal with Stones frontman Mick Jagger: “I walked into the room and right there in a pink baseball camp is Mick Jagger and these really cool pants I’d never seen before,” she says. “We only ran it through it one time.”“I knew, since this is how I was raised, your rehearsal is your performance,” she continued. “I never had sung the song full-out until that moment.
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