Beyond is a Swiss
spiritual music group of women of different age stages and religious backgrounds founded in 2007 by Swiss singer Regula Curti and her neighbours
Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifyin ...
and
Dechen Shak-Dagsay
Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a modern musician of traditional Tibetan Buddhist mantras expressed in recent lyrical contexts.
Life
Shak-Dagsay was born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1959. When she was 4 years old, Shak-Dagsay's family moved to Switzerland, w ...
.
Band history
2007–2010: Formation and ''Buddhist and Christian Prayers''
Already a former mainstream success artist,
Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifyin ...
has been living in a lake house, Château Algonquin in
Küsnacht
Küsnacht () is a municipality in the district of Meilen in the canton of Zürich, Switzerland.
History
Küsnacht is first mentioned in 1188 as ''de Cussenacho''.
Earliest findings of settlement date back to the Stone Age. There are also findi ...
, next to
Zürich
Zurich (; ) is the list of cities in Switzerland, largest city in Switzerland and the capital of the canton of Zurich. It is in north-central Switzerland, at the northwestern tip of Lake Zurich. , the municipality had 448,664 inhabitants. The ...
, since moving there in 1994. There she lived with her neighbours Regula Curti, who wanted to recruit a new music project in 2007 along with
Dechen Shak-Dagsay
Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a modern musician of traditional Tibetan Buddhist mantras expressed in recent lyrical contexts.
Life
Shak-Dagsay was born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1959. When she was 4 years old, Shak-Dagsay's family moved to Switzerland, w ...
. All three women live religious backgrounds with Curti being Christ from Zürich, Switzerland, Shak-Dagsay, a Buddhist originally from Tibet and Turner, a Buddhist-Baptist, how she calls herself, from Nutbush, Tennessee. In 2009, they released their first album ''Buddhist And Christian Prayers''. This album, produced by Gunther Mende and Mee Eun Kim-Mende, combined Buddhist chants and Christian choral music along with a spiritual message read by Turner. The album was released only in Germany and a handful of other countries. It peaked at number 7 in Switzerland.
2011–2013: ''Children – With Children United in Prayer''
In 2011, the group released their second album ''Children - With Children United in Prayer'' with a children choir and charted again in Switzerland. Turner promoted the album by performing on TV shows in Germany and Switzerland in December that year. In May 2012, Turner was spotted attending a fashion show in
Beijing
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to support
Giorgio Armani
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. Turner appeared on the cover of the German issue of ''
Vogue
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* ''Vogue'' (magazine), a US fashion magazine
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'' magazine in April 2013, becoming at the age of 73 the oldest person worldwide to feature on the cover of ''Vogue''.
2014–2016: Addition of Shende-Sathaye and ''Love Within''
In 2014, the trio has been added with a fourth member Sawani Shende-Sathaye from Pune, India, of Hinduism background, to a quartet. Together they released the third album ''Love Within'' with Turner contributing some gospel tracks. The album, which combines genres of the group's previous albums with classical Hindu music and
mantras
A mantra ( ; Pali: ''mantra'') or mantram (Devanagari: मन्त्रम्) is a sacred utterance, a numinous sound, a syllable, word or phonemes, or group of words (most often in an Indo-Iranian language like Sanskrit or Avestan) belie ...
due to the addition of Shende-Sathaye, is also their first album to get a worldwide release.
2017–present: ''Awakening'' and line-up change
On November 10, 2017, Beyond released their fourth studio album ''Awakening'', produced by syrian-american
Kareem Roustom
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. This album also saw major line-up changes with the leaving member Dagsay and the addition of the three singers Ani Choying from Kathmandu, Nepal, Dima Orsho from Damascus, Syria and Mor Karbasi from Jerusalem, Israel. Unlike the previous releases, each song is sung by solely one of the six artists along a choir. The content of prayers and lyrical texts has been extended with lullabies. The album has been recorded with the Philharmonia Orchestra London in the Abbey Road Studio.
Artistry
Music and public image
Beyond's music is a mix of religious spiritual, chill, ambient and world music. All four women live religious backgrounds with Curti being Christ from Switzerland, Shak-Dagsay, a Buddhist originally from Tibet, Turner, a Buddhist-Baptist, how she calls herself, from Nutbush, Tennessee and Shende-Sathaye, of Hinduism background. While the second album adds a children choir, the third album had been added with classical Hindu music and mantras due to the addition of the fourth member Shende-Sathaye in back in 2014. The fourth album features mostly orchestral elements due to the Philharmonia Orchestra London. Even though being a music group project, every individual member has been credited separately on the front covers and each members contribution on the back covers, especially those spiritual messages by Turner.
Members
* Regula Curti
(2007–present)
* Sawani Shende-Sathaye
(2014–present)
* Ani Choying
(2017–present)
*
Dima Orsho (2017–present)
*
Mor Karbasi
Mor Karbasi (; born April 23, 1986) is an Israeli singer-songwriter born in Jerusalem and now based in Seville after five years in London.
One of her main projects is Ladino music, also known as Judezmo, Spanyolit, or Sephardic—the ancient ...
(2017–present)
Past members
*
Tina Turner
Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Honorific nicknames in popular music, Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifyin ...
(2007-2020)
*
Dechen Shak-Dagsay
Dechen Shak-Dagsay is a modern musician of traditional Tibetan Buddhist mantras expressed in recent lyrical contexts.
Life
Shak-Dagsay was born in Kathmandu, Nepal in 1959. When she was 4 years old, Shak-Dagsay's family moved to Switzerland, w ...
(2007–2017)
Discography
*''Buddhist and Christian Prayers'' (2009)
*''Children – With Children United in Prayer'' (2011)
*''Love Within'' (2014)
*''Awakening'' (2017)
References
External links
Official Website
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Religious musical groups
Swiss musical groups
Musical groups established in 2007
Tina Turner
English-language musical groups from Switzerland