Natalia Chi
Tina Turner teamed up with her husband, Ike Turner, for a dynamic string of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ’70s, overcoming a horrific marriage, and chart-topping “What’s Love Got?” is an unstoppable singer and stage performer who triumphed in middle age with . She died at the age of 83 from “To Do With It”.
Turner died Tuesday after a long battle with illness. His home in Kusnacht near Zurich, according to her manager. She became a Swiss citizen ten years ago.
Few stars have traveled this far. Born Anna Mae Brock in an isolated hospital in Tennessee, she spent her final years on a 260,000-square-foot property on the shores of Lake Zurich. And she, she’s been through so much. Physically devastated, emotionally devastated, and financially ruined by her 20-year relationship with Ike Turner, she became an independent superstar in her 40s when most of her peers were on the decline. She became a star and continued to earn top popularity at her concerts. A few years later.
“How do we say goodbye to a woman who took her pain and trauma and used it as a tool to change the world?” In a statement, Angela Bassett, who played Turner in
“Through the courage to tell her own story, through her determination to follow the course of her life at all costs, and through her determination to carve out rock ‘n’ roll territory for herself and others like herself, Tina Turner , who have lived in fear of what a beautiful future of love, compassion and freedom would look like.
With fans ranging from Mick Jagger to Beyoncé to Mariah Carey, the “Queen of Rock and Roll” is one of the world’s most popular entertainers and the core of popular songs in pop, rock, rhythm and blues, “Proud”. known as Mary. “Nutbush City Limits,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” and ’80s hits, including “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” and Al’s cover “Let’s Stay Together” in green.
Her trademarks include a smoldering or exploding grunt contralto, a bold smile and burly cheekbones, a palette of wigs, and muscular, quick-stepping legs that she never hesitates to show off. was included.She has sold over 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammy Awards, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Ike in 1991 (and Independent in 2021 ) in 2005 at the Kennedy Center, where Beyonce and Oprah Winfrey also praised her. Her life was the basis for a movie, Broadway her musical, and an HBO documentary in 2021. said goodbye to her in public.
Before splitting from her husband and revealing the backstory, she was known on stage as a greedy foil to the down-to-earth head of The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Ike was billed first and ran the show, selecting material, arrangements and backing singers. They toured constantly over the years, partly because Ike was often short on money and didn’t want to miss a concert. Tina Turner was forced to live with bronchitis and pneumonia, leaving her right lung collapsed.
Also, Ike himself was the cause of her unhappiness.
As she recounted in her memoir, I, Tina, Ike began beating her in the mid-1950s, and only worse, soon after they met. When provoked by any of her, he poured hot coffee in her face, strangled her, beat her until her eyes swollen shut, and then raped her. Before one show, he broke her jaw and she came on stage with blood filling her mouth.
Terrified of being with Ike and of living without it, she believed that her Buddhist beliefs, which sprang up in the mid-1970s, had given her strength and self-esteem, and eventually led her to 1976. Left in early July. Ike and the Tina Turner Revue were due to begin a tour to mark her 200th anniversary, but while Ike was sleeping, Tina took only her Mobil credit card and 36 cents to a hotel room in Dallas. I sneaked out. She scurried across a nearby highway, narrowly avoiding a speeding truck, and found another hotel.
“I looked at him[Ike]and thought, ‘You just beat me for the last time, you bastard,'” she recalled in her memoir.
Turner was one of the first celebrities to speak out about domestic violence, became an abused female heroine, and a symbol of resilience for all. Ike Turner tried to blame Tina for her problems, but didn’t deny he abused her. When Ike died in 2007, her ex-wife’s representative only said, “Tina knows Ike is dead.”
Little did Ike and Tina fans know this during the couple’s heyday. From bluesy ballads like “A Fool in Love” and “It’s Going to Work Out Fine” to flashy covers of “Proud Mary” and “Come Together,” Turners was a favorite of the 1960s and his 70s. It was act. ’ and other rock songs that have resulted in crossover success.
They opened for the Rolling Stones in 1966 and 1969, and performed a lustful version of Otis Redding’s “I’ve Been Loving You Too Long” in the 1970 Stones documentary Gimme Shelter. I saw him do it. Bassett and Laurence Fishburne gave their Oscar-nominated performances in What Does Love Have to Do with I, Tina, but reliving their days with Ike is so painful She said she didn’t feel like watching it. movie.
Ike and Tina’s rework of “Proud Mary” was originally a tight, mid-tempo hit for Creedence Clearwater Revival and helped define their sexual aura. Against the backdrop of funky guitars and Ike’s singing baritone, Tina opened with a few words about how some people want to hear a “nice and easy” song.
“But there is one thing,” she warned.
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“We are always kind and rough.”
By the end of the 1970s, however, Turner’s career seemed over. She was 40, her first solo album was a failure, and her live shows were largely confined to the cabaret circuit. Desperate for her job and money, she even agreed to tour her to South Africa at a time when the country was widely boycotted because of the racist apartheid regime.
Rockstars helped bring her back. Rod Stewart persuaded her to sing “Hot Legs” with him on “Saturday Night Live,” and Jagger, who openly borrowed some of Turner’s on-stage moves, was one of the Stones’ 1981-1982 singers. I sang “Honky Tonk Women” with her while on tour in 2008. At a listening party for his 1983 album Let’s Dance, David Bowie told guests that Turner was his favorite singer.
“She was an inspirational, warm, funny and generous person. She helped me a lot when I was younger. I will never forget her,” Jagger tweeted on Wednesday.
More popular in the UK than in the US at the time, she recorded a raspy version of “Let’s Stay Together” at EMI’s Abbey Road Studios in London. By the end of 1983, “Let’s Stay Together” was a hit across Europe and on the verge of breaking even in the states. Capitol Records’ A&R man, John Carter, encouraged her label to sign her and make an album. Among the songs she was presented with was an introspective pop-reggae ballad co-written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, which Tina initially dismissed as a “wimp.”
“I thought it was an old pop song and didn’t like it,” she later said of “What’s Love Got To Do With It.”
Turner’s album, Private Dancer, was released in May 1984, sold over eight million copies, and contained several hit singles, including the title track and “Better Be Good To Me.” The song won four Grammy Awards, including “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” which helped define her clear-eyed image since Ike. It also includes the best records.
“People look at me now and think what a hot life I had, haha!” she wrote in her memoirs.
Even with Ike, it was hard to mistake her for a romantic. She said her voice was never “pretty” nor was her love song her area of expertise. One of her reasons for that is that she had very little experience to help her. She was born in Nutbush, Tennessee in 1939, but she said she “received no love” from either her mother or her father. After her parents divorced, she moved frequently between Tennessee and Missouri, living with various relatives of hers. She was gregarious, loved to sing, and used to check out blues clubs in St. Louis during her teenage years. Ike Turner and the Kings of Rhythm were her most popular there. When Tina first saw him at her club Manhattan, she couldn’t care less about his appearance.
“Then he went on stage and picked up a guitar,” she wrote in her memoir. “When he hit a note, I thought, ‘Jesus, listen to this man.'”
Tina acted immediately. During an intermission from Ike Turner’s show at nearby Club Dilisa, Ike was alone on stage playing a blues melody on his keyboard. Tina recognized the song “You Know I Love You” by BB King and she grabbed the mic and sang along. Her stunned Ike shouted “Giruru!!”, as she recalled Tina. And she demanded to know what else she could do. Over her mother’s objections, she agreed to join his group. Inspired by the comic heroine Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, he changed her name to Tina, and married her in 1962, changing her surname.
On rare occasions when Ike was generous, Tina took her own steps. She added thunderous lead vocals to Phil Spector’s epic “River Deep, Mountain High.” The song was a flop in the United States when it was released in 1966, but it was a hit overseas and eventually became a standard. She also appeared as an acid queen in the 1975 film version of The Who rock her opera Tommy. Her recent film work includes cameo appearances in Mad Max: Her Beyond Her Thunderdome and What’s Love Got to Do with It.
Turner had two sons. Craig and saxophonist Raymond Hill. Ronald and Ike Turner. (Craig Turner was found dead of an apparent suicide in 2018). In her memoir, Tina Turner: My Love Story, published in late 2018, she revealed that she had a kidney transplant from her second husband, former EMI Records executive Irwin Buck. made it
Turner’s life seemed like an argument against marriage, but life with Bach was an incredible love story for young Tina. The two met in the mid-1980s, when she flew to Germany to promote her record, and he picked her up at the airport. He was more than ten years younger than her, and she described him as “the most beautiful face” in the HBO documentary, but they were attracted to each other. She married Mr Bach in 2013 and exchanged vows in a public ceremony in Switzerland.
“The happiness people talk about is when you don’t want anything, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, ‘Everything’s fine,'” Turner told reporters at the time.
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