{"id":3308,"date":"2021-05-21T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-21T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/?p=3308"},"modified":"2021-08-09T20:21:18","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T20:21:18","slug":"payge-turner-puts-the-voice-behind-her-focuses-on-debut-album-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lauradowrich.com\/payge-turner-puts-the-voice-behind-her-focuses-on-debut-album-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Payge Turner puts The Voice behind her, focuses on debut album Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In a world where the ability to belt out high notes is lauded and held as the gold standard for singing, a few who sing in lower octaves have stood out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anita Baker, Toni Braxton, Lalah Hathaway, Nina Simone and Sade are some names that come to mind.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Payge Turner is determined to add her name to that esteemed list.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With her independently-produced debut album, Home, Turner wants to prove that she can have a long career in the music industry with her low register.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI am sick and tired of people glorifying the sopranos. There are such things as females who can sing low registers,\u201d she said in an interview via Zoom with Loop News<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner, who also sings tenor and baritone, said she wanted to rep for the altos when she went on The Voice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is about damn time\u2026I went on the show with that feeling,\u201d the 28-year-old declared.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her choice of song, \u201cCall Out My Name\u201d that got celebrity judge Gwen Stefani to turn her chair and ultimately become her mentor was deliberate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone was dying when you hit that low note,\u201d Stefani told her during the Blind Auditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI needed to set the tone for altos and say here we are,\u201d Turner told Loop News<\/em>, noting that she had to hit that baritone note in the song.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stating that a lot of singers who sing in low registers have short careers, Turner said she wants to change that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI have no time, I have no time to make a short-lived career,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Artwork for Payge Turner’s upcoming album Home<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Home, Turner, birth name Paige Roopchan, is introducing herself to the world, giving a deeply personal look at who she is as a person and an artiste, and stamping her brand which has been compared to the late Prince.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The title of the 10-track album is a metaphor for the peace she has found within herself after dealing with different traumas in her life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHome isn\u2019t a specific place but it is a place of belonging and understanding,\u201d she explained. \u201cI think the album is representing a place within myself where I found home. Home is within me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Being isolated during the filming of The Voice due to the pandemic forced her to spend time confronting her issues.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner said she returned home with a lot of heaviness that she was able to pour into her album, which contains some sultry, slow tempo tracks that touch on love and loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe album has a dynamic range. It goes from touching on the softer side of my vocal range which no one has any idea exists. The show showed my low register, the way I can blend and the tender parts of my voice where I could sing ‘Creep’ but it doesn\u2019t show the butter side of my voice that exists. I have this eerie tone\u2026I am excited for people to get a taste of what that is,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The album, she said, is also meant to showcase that The Voice was not the end for her.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt is an example to many other Voice contestants that have come and gone before. I find the Voice doesn\u2019t really bring out a lot of people that rise to the top\u2026but I do have a desire to make it without the title of The Voice being behind me,\u201d said Turner who was eliminated from The Voice at the end of the Battle Rounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner said her intention is to use her music to touch and heal others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI feel music orchestrates itself through me more than I allow myself to use music,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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