Photo: Tina Turner | By Emma Saunders, Yahoo | Singer Tina Turner, whose soul classics and pop hits like The Best and What’s Love Got to Do With It made her a superstar, has died at the age of 83. Turner had suffered a number of health issues in recent years including cancer, a stroke and kidney failure.
She rose to fame alongside husband Ike in the 1960s with songs including Proud Mary and River Deep, Mountain High.
She divorced the abusive Ike in 1978, and went on to find even greater success as a solo artist in the 1980s.
Dubbed the Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina Turner was famed for her raunchy and energetic stage performances and husky, powerful vocals.
She won eight Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, having first been inducted alongside Ike Turner in 1991.
Upon her solo induction, the Hall of Fame noted how she had “expanded the once-limited idea of how a Black woman could conquer a stage and be both a powerhouse and a multidimensional being”.
Younger stars who have felt her influence include Beyonce, Janet Jackson, Janelle Monae and Rihanna.
Born in Tennessee into a sharecropping family, she first found prominence as one of the backing singers for her husband’s band The Kings of Rhythm.
She soon went on to front the band, and the couple tasted commercial success with Fool in Love and It’s Gonna Work Out Fine, which made the US charts in the early 60s.
Their other hits included 1973’s Nutbush City Limits, about the small town where Tina was born. But Ike’s physical and emotional abuse was taking its toll.
It was he who changed her name from her birth name, Anna Mae Bullock, to Tina Turner – a decision he took without her knowledge, one example of his controlling behaviour.
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Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ Tina Turner Dies at 83
By Mike Davidson, Reuters
Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83.
She died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, her representative said.
Turner began her career in the 1950s during the early years of rock and roll and evolved into an MTV phenomenon.
In the video for her chart-topping song “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” in which she called love a “second-hand emotion,” Turner epitomized 1980s style as she strutted through New York City streets with her spiky blond hair, wearing a cropped jean jacket, mini skirt, and stiletto heels.
With her taste for musical experimentation and bluntly-worded ballads, Turner gelled perfectly with a 1980s pop landscape in which music fans valued electronically-produced sounds and scorned hippie-era idealism.
Sometimes nicknamed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Turner won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. The decade saw her land a dozen songs on the Top 40, including “Typical Male,” “The Best,” “Private Dancer” and “Better Be Good to Me.” Her 1988 show in Rio de Janeiro drew 180,000 people, which remains one of the largest concert audiences for any single performer.
By then, Turner had been free from her marriage to guitarist Ike Turner for a decade.
The superstar was forthcoming about the abuse she suffered from her former husband during their marital and musical partnership in the 1960s and 1970s. She described bruised eyes, busted lips, a broken jaw and other injuries that repeatedly sent her to the emergency room.
“Tina’s story is not one of victimhood but one of incredible triumph,” singer Janet Jackson wrote about Turner, in a Rolling Stone issue that placed Turner at No. 63 on a list of the top 100 artists of all time.
“She’s transformed herself into an international sensation – an elegant powerhouse,” Jackson said.
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She is survived by Bach and two sons of Ike’s that she adopted.
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(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis and Mike Davidson; editing by Diane Craft, Andrew Heavens and Rosalba O’Brien) [We will truly miss you and your “gutsiness”, Miss Tina].
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OTHER NOTABLE MUSICIANS’ DEATHS
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May 2023
24: Javier Álvarez, 67, Mexican composer; Bill Lee, 94, American jazz musician and film composer (She’s Gotta Have It, School Daze, Do the Right Thing); Tina Turner, 83, American-born Swiss Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer (“River Deep – Mountain High”, “What’s Love Got to Do with It”) and actress (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome), eight-time Grammy winner.
23: Mark Adams, 64, American metal bassist (Saint Vitus), complications from Parkinson’s disease; Floyd Newman, 91, American saxophonist (The Mar-Keys, The Memphis Horns); Sheldon Reynolds*, 63, American guitarist (Sun, Commodores, Earth, Wind & Fire).
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheldon_Reynolds_(guitarist)
22: Kirk Arrington*, 61, American drummer (Metal Church); Ferus Mustafov, 72, Macedonian saxophonist; Chas Newby**, 81, British bassist (The Beatles); Toni De La Ploie?ti, 31, Romanian pop-folk singer, cardiac arrest; Wahid Satay, 93, Singaporean actor (Pontianak, Puteri Gunong Ledang, Pontianak Harum Sundal Malam), comedian and singer, complications from diabetes.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirk_Arrington
** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chas_Newby
21: Thotakura Somaraju, 68, Indian film music composer (Hello Brother), singer-songwriter and record producer.
20: Paul Desenne, 63, Venezuelan cellist and composer, heart attack; Györgyi Lang, 66, Hungarian actress and singer; Sven Nyhus, 90, Norwegian folk musician.
19: Pete Brown, 82, English poet, lyricist (“I Feel Free”, “Sunshine of Your Love”, “White Room”) and singer, cancer; Andy Rourke, 59, English bassist (The Smiths), pancreatic cancer.
17: Algy Ward, 63, English heavy metal bassist (Tank, The Damned, The Saints).
16: Richard Landis*, 77, American singer-songwriter, record producer, and music executive; Lester Sterling, 87, Jamaican saxophonist (The Skatalites, Byron Lee and the Dragonaires).
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Landis
14: John Giblin, 71, Scottish bass player; Ingrid Haebler, 93, Austrian pianist; Bernt Rosengren, 85, Swedish jazz tenor saxophonist.
13: Arno Veimer, 50, Estonian guitarist and lyricist (Terminator).
12: Abdul Karim Abdul Qader, 82, Kuwaiti singer; Dum-Dum, 54, Brazilian rapper (Facção Central), complications from a stroke.
11: Francis Monkman, 73, English musician (Curved Air, Sky, Matching Mole), songwriter and composer, cancer.
10: Stu James, 77, British singer (The Mojos) and music executive; Gioacchino Lanza Tomasi, 89, Italian musicologist; Federico Savina, 87, Italian musician and sound engineer.
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Tina Turner: Music Legend Dies at 83 // Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths
