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Chanel Haynes says Rolling Stones gig cost her ‘Tina’ musical job

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Haynes, who for the previous few months had been portraying the legendary Tina Turner within the musical primarily based on her life, advised Rolling Stone journal that she was canned after agreeing to carry out “Gimme Shelter” with the band.

The present, in Milan on June 21, was the primary efficiency for the Rolling Stones since lead singer Mick Jagger had recovered from Covid-19.

Haynes advised the journal she was flown with little discover from London to Milan to exchange backup singer, Sasha Allen, who was unable to carry out as a consequence of an unspecified motive.

“I am unable to say precisely after I obtained the decision as a result of I do not need to give timelines,” Haynes stated. “However I will let you know that there was little or no discover. Little or no. All people was biting their nails. ‘How are we going to tug this off’ However I let you know the machine the Stones have is like Buckingham Palace or the White Home. They’ve the identical degree of personnel. Subsequent factor I knew, I used to be on a airplane to Milan.”

She and Jagger rehearsed the track as soon as earlier than the present she stated and video of the efficiency was shared on YouTube.

“Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones did for me what he did for Tina Turner,” Haynes advised CNN in a press release. “He shared his stage with me and uncovered me to a brand new viewers, and for that, I’m eternally grateful.”

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Haynes posted on Instagram an e mail she stated she later obtained from the “Tina” basic supervisor that knowledgeable her she had been suspended from the manufacturing.

“The theater will probably be knowledgeable that you’re not permitted to enter,” the e-mail reads.

In keeping with Rolling Stone journal, Haynes declined to present specifics concerning her suspension, however insisted it was due to her Rolling Stones efficiency, which occurred on an evening that “Tina” was additionally occurring.

Her “greatest heartbreak,” she stated, was that family and friends, together with a home violence survivor who helped her put together for taking part in Turner, who was famously abused by her then-husband Ike Turner, had been flying in for what was to have been her ultimate efficiency with “Tina.”

“She was my muse. She was the person who helped me correctly inform that story from her perspective,” Haynes stated. “I additionally wasn’t in a position to say goodbye to the youngsters within the forged. That was onerous.”

A rep for the manufacturing advised Rolling Stone journal in a press release: “This considerations an employee-related matter, and as an organization coverage, we don’t touch upon personnel-related particular person circumstances.”

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