2007–2010: Formation and Buddhist and Christian Prayers Already a former mainstream success artist,
Tina Turner has been living in a lake house, Château Algonquin in
Küsnacht, next to
Zürich, 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. 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 to support
Giorgio Armani. Turner appeared on the cover of the German issue of
Vogue 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 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. 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==