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Pouring pain and experience and raw sensuality into performances that mixed rock, soul and blues, singer-songwriter Tina Turner was a wellspring of uncontainable energy. Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939, Turner sang in church choirs before featuring in The Kings of Rhythm, an R&B band led by her future husband Ike Turner—from whom she would suffer more than a decade of abuse. She channelled that emotion to turn Creedence Clearwater Revival’s gently rolling “Proud Mary” into a tear-the-roof-off anthem and imbue 1973’s semi-autobiographical “Nutbush City Limits” with a self-aware wit. Her show-stealing turn as The Acid Queen in 1975’s film version of The Who’s <i>Tommy</i> only further highlighted her range and hinted at the chart-topping force she’d become. After divorcing Ike and reclaiming her independence in the late ’70s, Turner became a watchword for liberation and self-empowerment at a time when there wasn’t much vocabulary for it. She reinvented herself as a wounded-but-wise R&B singer, chronicling the often devastating complexities of romance with the intimacy and strength of a survivor—particularly on her 1984 pop breakthrough, <i>Private Dancer</i>. In anyone else’s hands, songs such as “Better Be Good to Me” and "What’s Love Got to Do With It” are breezy FM-radio tunes; in Turner's, they're real-life examinations of how destructive emotions can be—a perspective you can still hear in the toughness and vulnerability of Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige. That grace and confidence carried on through the ensuing decades of her work, whether as the singer of 1989's triumphant “The Best,” the actor in <i>Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome</i>, the author of the frank memoir <i>I, Tina</i>, a style icon, a hero to victims of domestic abuse, or an adherent of Buddhism, whose teachings fuelled her creatively and spiritually since the ’70s. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2005, she said, “I want my gift to become a gift for others. We're caught in a stagnant belief system passed on to us from our parents and what’s been given from the churches. I believe there’s another truth. Dancing and singing is all good—but the ultimate gift is to change people’s minds.” Turner died in May 2023 at the age of 83.

Given the image of him as a smiling, joint-smoking peacenik that has proliferated since his death in 1981, it’s easy to forget just how angry Bob Marley was. His music spoke to colonialism (“War”), poverty (“Concrete Jungle”), the necessity of achieving political agency (“Get Up, Stand Up”) and the challenge of exercising it (“Burnin’ and Lootin’”) with a righteousness and frustration that made him as much a figurehead to punk rock as to the reggae he helped export to the world. Marley formed The Wailers with Peter Tosh and Bunny Wailer in his late teens, thickening from cheerful R&B-based ska to the more rhythmically substantive sound of reggae. His music had a dialogic relationship with a variety of Black styles beyond reggae, including funk (“I Shot the Sheriff"), soul (“No Woman, No Cry”, “Redemption Song”) and even disco (“Could You Be Loved”, “Exodus”). Even as he settled into smoother, pop-oriented sounds, he retained an urgency and sense of struggle that inspired generations of artists to recognise that music, while great for entertainment, can also be the delivery system for something bigger.

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Becky Hill's husky voice is deep and melancholy, lending an air of soul to brash and bruising dance confections such as the pummelling “Back to My Love” and No. 1 collaboration with Oliver Heldens, “Gecko (Overdrive).” As revealed on the 2014 series of The Voice UK, her speciality is to powerfully emote like someone who is utterly consumed, a singer lost within her own feelings. “Rude Love” is set to a blues holler as a woozy deep bass punches to the solar plexus, while “Losing” pits her desolate howl against a drum tattoo and waves of organ.