{"id":34083,"date":"2023-05-24T22:32:59","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:32:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=34083"},"modified":"2023-05-24T22:33:14","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T22:33:14","slug":"tina-turner-legendary-rocknroll-singer-dies-aged-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2023\/05\/24\/tina-turner-legendary-rocknroll-singer-dies-aged-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner: legendary rock\u2019n\u2019roll singer dies aged 83"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tina Turner, the pioneering rock\u2019n\u2019roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tina<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Turner affirmed and amplified Black women\u2019s formative stake in rock\u2019n\u2019roll, defining that era of music to the extent that Mick Jagger admitted to taking inspiration from her high-kicking, energetic live performances for his stage persona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two decades of\u00a0working with her abusive husband, Ike Turner, she struck out alone and \u2013 after a few false starts \u2013 became one of the defining pop icons of the 1980s with the album Private Dancer. Her life was chronicled in three memoirs, a biopic, a\u00a0jukebox musical, and in 2021, the acclaimed documentary film,\u00a0Tina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Wednesday night, her publicist Bernard Doherty said: \u201cTina Turner, the \u2018Queen of Rock\u2019n Roll\u2019 has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tina Turner performs in Cologne, Germany, in January 2009.Photograph: Hermann J Knippertz\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, scholar Daphne A Brooks wrote for the Guardian: \u201cTurner\u2019s musical character has always been a charged combination of mystery as well as light, melancholy mixed with a ferocious vitality that often flirted with danger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 and raised in Nutbush, Tennessee, where she recalled picking cotton with her family as a child. She sang in the tiny town\u2019s church choir, and as a teenager talked \u2013 or rather, sang \u2013 her way into Ike\u2019s band in St Louis: he had declined her request to join until he heard her seize the microphone during a Kings of Rhythm performance for a rendition of BB King\u2019s You Know I Love You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her vocal talents became apparent, Ike gave her the name Tina Turner \u2013 and trademarked it in case she left him and he wanted to replace her in his act. He quickly became abusive: when Turner tried to leave the group early on after having got a sense of his mercurial character, he hit her with a wooden shoe stretcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tina Turner performs with Beyonc\u00e9 at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 2008. Photograph: Robyn Beck\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy relationship with Ike was doomed the day he figured out I was going to be his moneymaker,\u201d Turner wrote in her 2018 biography My Love Story. \u201cHe needed to control me, economically and psychologically, so I could never leave him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tina Turner, the pioneering rock\u2019n\u2019roll star who became a pop behemoth in the 1980s, has died aged 83 after a long illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tina<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Turner affirmed and amplified Black women\u2019s formative stake in rock\u2019n\u2019roll, defining that era of music to the extent that Mick Jagger admitted to taking inspiration from her high-kicking, energetic live performances for his stage persona.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After two decades of\u00a0working with her abusive husband, Ike Turner, she struck out alone and \u2013 after a few false starts \u2013 became one of the defining pop icons of the 1980s with the album Private Dancer. Her life was chronicled in three memoirs, a biopic, a\u00a0jukebox musical, and in 2021, the acclaimed documentary film,\u00a0Tina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a statement on Wednesday night, her publicist Bernard Doherty said: \u201cTina Turner, the \u2018Queen of Rock\u2019n Roll\u2019 has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tina
Tina Turner performs in Cologne, Germany, in January 2009.Photograph: Hermann J Knippertz\/AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In 2018, scholar Daphne A Brooks wrote for the Guardian: \u201cTurner\u2019s musical character has always been a charged combination of mystery as well as light, melancholy mixed with a ferocious vitality that often flirted with danger.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 and raised in Nutbush, Tennessee, where she recalled picking cotton with her family as a child. She sang in the tiny town\u2019s church choir, and as a teenager talked \u2013 or rather, sang \u2013 her way into Ike\u2019s band in St Louis: he had declined her request to join until he heard her seize the microphone during a Kings of Rhythm performance for a rendition of BB King\u2019s You Know I Love You.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

After her vocal talents became apparent, Ike gave her the name Tina Turner \u2013 and trademarked it in case she left him and he wanted to replace her in his act. He quickly became abusive: when Turner tried to leave the group early on after having got a sense of his mercurial character, he hit her with a wooden shoe stretcher.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tina
Tina Turner performs with Beyonc\u00e9 at the 50th Grammy Awards in Los Angeles, February 2008. Photograph: Robyn Beck\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMy relationship with Ike was doomed the day he figured out I was going to be his moneymaker,\u201d Turner wrote in her 2018 biography My Love Story. \u201cHe needed to control me, economically and psychologically, so I could never leave him.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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She made her recorded debut under the name with the Ike and Tina Turner single A Fool in Love in July 1960, which broke the US Top 30 and started a run of respectable chart success. But it was their live performances that made them a sensation. Ike toured the Ike and Tina Turner Revue aggressively on the Chitlin\u2019 Circuit \u2013 including in front of desegregated audiences, such was their commercial power. In 1964, they signed to Warner Bros imprint Loma Records, which released their first album to chart: Live! The Ike & Tina Turner Show.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the second half of the 60s, the duo were courted by many of rock\u2019s biggest names. Phil Spector produced the 1966 single River Deep \u2013 Mountain High; they supported the Rolling Stones in the UK and later the US, and stars including David Bowie, Sly Stone, Cher, Elvis Presley and Elton John came to their Las Vegas residency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u2018I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy\u2019 \u2026 Tina Turner performs at the O2 Arena, London, in 2009.Photograph: Stefan Wermuth\/Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

They were a chart-making, Grammy-winning force in the 1970s \u2013 a run that came to an end when Turner left Ike, who had been consistently violent and unfaithful, in 1976. Her last single with the group was Baby, Get It On, from the 1975 film adaptation of the Who\u2019s rock opera Tommy, in which she starred as Acid Queen, a character of the same name of her second solo album.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the divorce, finalised in 1978, Turner came away with just two cars and the rights to her stage name. \u201cIke fought a little bit because he knew what I would do with it,\u201d she said in the documentary Tina.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner, who had already released two solo records, continued pursuing a solo career, though it would take until she released her fifth album, 1984\u2019s Private Dancer, for her to supplant the old image of the shimmying rock\u2019n\u2019roller \u2013 and escape premature relegation to the oldies circuit \u2013 with one of a powerful, mullet-sporting, leather-clad pop icon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tina Turner performs in March 1987 in Paris during the first concert of a world tour. Photograph: Bertrand Guay\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

In the documentary Tina, she described Private Dancer as her debut. \u201cI don\u2019t consider it a comeback,\u201d she said. \u201cTina had never arrived.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner credited Buddhism and particularly the practice of chanting with positively affecting her life in the 1980s. Outside music, she starred in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome opposite Mel Gibson in 1985. She published her first memoir, the global bestseller I, Tina, in 1986, which was later adapted in to the 1993 film What\u2019s Love Got to Do With It? starring Angela Bassett as Turner. In 1995, she sang the theme tune to the James Bond film GoldenEye.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner announced her retirement in 2000, a year after releasing her final solo album, Twenty Four Seven, though she would return to the stage in 2008, performing at the Grammy awards with Beyonc\u00e9, and for a final tour to mark 50 years of her career.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That was conclusively the end. \u201cI was just tired of singing and making everybody happy,\u201d\u00a0she told the New York Times in 2019. \u201cThat\u2019s all I\u2019d ever done in my life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner collaborated on the musical Tina with Phyllida Lloyd, which premiered in 2018 and won Laurence Olivier and Tony awards for its respective West End and Broadway runs. \u201cThis musical is not about my stardom,\u201d Turner said of the production. \u201cIt is about the journey I took to get there. Each night I want audiences to take away from the theatre that you can turn poison into medicine.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Tina<\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Turner often said she did not relate to the \u201cinvincible\u201d persona that others put on her. \u201cI don\u2019t necessarily want to be a \u2018strong\u2019 person,\u201d she told the New York Times. \u201cI had a terrible life. I just kept going. You just keep going, and you hope that something will come.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, a\u00a0remix of her 1984 hit What\u2019s Love Got to Do With It?\u00a0by the Norwegian producer Kygo made Turner the first artist to have a UK Top 40 hit in seven consecutive decades. In 2021, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, 30 years after Ike and Tina Turner\u2019s induction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Turner is survived by her second husband, German music executive Erwin Bach. They married in July 2013 after 27 years together and lived in Switzerland. In 2013, Turner renounced her US citizenship to become a Swiss citizen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her first child, Craig Raymond Turner, died in July 2018. Last year, Turner said that following her other son Ronnie\u2019s death at the age of 62 that he \u201cleft the world far too early\u201d. She is survived by two of Ike Turner\u2019s sons, Ike Turner Jr and Michael Turner, whom she adopted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2020, Turner told the Guardian that despite having some serious health problems, the last 10 years of her life had embodied her ideal vision of happiness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cTrue and lasting happiness comes from having an unshakeable, hopeful spirit that can shine, no matter what,\u201d\u00a0she said. \u201cThat\u2019s what I\u2019ve achieved, and it is my greatest wish to help others become truly happy as well.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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