Photo: James J. Kriegsmann; distributed by Motown Records / Public domain (source: Wikimedia Commons)

Tammi Terrell

タミー・テレル　/　たみー・てれる

American singer

April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970　・　Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

Pennsylvania
singer
songwriter
recording artist

My Take

Tammi Terrell's voice is one of the great what-ifs of soul music. Her duets with Marvin Gaye during Motown's golden run are still impossibly tender, the kind of chemistry that can't be manufactured in a studio. She died at just 24, and that fact haunts every listen. I find her catalog almost unbearably poignant precisely because it's so short. There's no late-career decline, no comeback tour, only a young artist caught forever at her radiant peak. Some legacies are measured in decades; hers is measured in a handful of perfect recordings that still ache half a century on.

Overview

Thomasina Winifred Montgomery (April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970), professionally known as Tammi Terrell, was an American singer-songwriter, widely known as a star singer for Motown Records during the 1960s, notably for a series of duets with singer Marvin Gaye.

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1. Profile

Name (English): Tammi Terrell
Name (Japanese): タミー・テレル
Reading: たみー・てれる
Born: April 29, 1945 – March 16, 1970
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Taurus / Rooster
Origin: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: singer / songwriter / recording artist / musician

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Germantown High School
University: University of Pennsylvania

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9F%E3%83%BC%E3%83%BB%E3%83%86%E3%83%AC%E3%83%AB

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