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Originally posted by Mz Destiny
CrimsonTide4:
I love Tarralyn, and I've been voting for her. However, I think she's playing herself. Just by her being on this show, and by some of the things that she has said, she is making it look as if she only recorded a Gospel CD to get paid. She made a statement that said something to the effect of ," People may know of Tarralyn Ramsey the Gospel Artist, but what they don't know is that Tarralyn the Gospel Artist didn't have $100 in her bank account." Plus, you have to question her management and record company. What kind of contract did they really have her under not to make any cash? John P. Kee produced her. That's enough to sell CD's by itself. Plus, when she was in the studio on the show, and they interviewed her, she said that she had to "detox" herself and stop singing like a "straight up church girl." Honey...if you were born to sing in church, you're gonna sound like a "straight up church girl" no matter what you sing! There' s nothing wrong with it! I sound like a straight-up church girl when I sing and I'm proud of it!
I have read articles dated back to when she first came out, and she was saying that she has turned down mainstream contracts because she was doing what God called her to do. This was back in her early teens. Now? I'm not the one to say that she has abandoned her calling, but that's how it looks.
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i want to start by saying that there were a LOT of really talented sisters that auditioned for VH1 born to diva-- i know if certain individuals would have agreed with their contract, TOMEY wouldn't have been there. now, i don't want to rag on tomey(since i am from MIAMI!), but #1: the divas that made it in MIAMI looked like a hot mess; i know they could have found better than that in south florida! and #2: tomey has a different kind of style and i think you have to appreciate that before you can say that she just plain out sucks. i didn't think ENO from london was that hot until i stopped to appreciate the quality of her voice...
now, on to TARRALYN. that girl can sing like it is NOBODYS business. i am going to go out and totally buy her gospel CD because tommy mottola was right: GOD really does live in her voice. when she sang in the finals in NY, i got tears in my eyes. that being said, i think that we really can't judge her decision to sing secular music because, hell, she may have been using this born to diva thing as a stepping stone to bigger things. only she and GOD know her rationale and her planning and personal motivation. to insinuate that she is selling out what she feels to be her calling is something we really can't do. just because it may appear that way on the outside to us doesn't mean that it is necessarily so.
also, the comments she made about "singing like a straight up church girl" simply apply to the situation. the producers didn't want her to have a gospel sound because it didn't flow with her song-- she can't get hated on for saying she had to "detox"; she was giving them what they wanted. and about "tarralyn ramsey the gospel singer not having 100 dollars in her bank account": she was just keeping it real. in essence, to me, she is was more of less saying, "don't get it twisted--i'm here to get the same big break as everybody else". perhaps her previous deal didn't afford her that. either way, i don't think she was trying to say that she only did gospel at the point in her life for the money. but if she did, she wouldn't be the only one. my girl yolanda adams even said that when she was making the choice to sing gospel, she was asked to do jazz, which is secular. she said by her reasoning, it made more sense to gospel because it was want she felt in her heart, but also because she felt that gospel was more lucrative than jazz. at the end of the day, we all gotta get paid!
i think no matter what, tarralyn will do great things and as was said before, GOD will still get the glory.