Legendary singer Tina Turner has died at the age of 83, her official Facebook social media page announced on Wednesday.
“With her music and boundless passion for life, she has captivated millions of fans around the world and inspired the stars of the future. Today we say goodbye to a dear friend who leaves us all her greatest work: her music. With all my heart.” “Condolences to his family. Tina, we will miss you dearly,” the statement said.
Turner died at his home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, of complications from an unspecified illness, his manager told The Associated Press.
Tina Turner at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Hoffma Estates, Illinois on September 12, 1987. Paul Natkin/Getty Images
Known as the Queen of Rock, Turner has sold out venues, won a dozen Grammy Awards and delighted millions of fans around the world over the course of her decades-long career.
With hits like “What’s Love Got to Do With It” he became a legend of contemporary music; Additionally, her unique life was the basis for the best-selling autobiographical I, Tina (1986), a Hollywood film named after her biggest hit, a Broadway musical named after her, and an HBO series.
Humble origins in Tennessee
One of the most famous black women in music history and the first to grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine, Turner was born to Anna Mae Bullock in a separate hospital in Tennessee. and spent his final years in a 25,000 square meter estate overlooking Lake Zurich near the Swiss capital.
His most popular songs include hits like Proud Mary, Nutbush City Limits, River Deep, Mountain High, We Don’t Need Another Hero and his iconic cover of Al Green’s Let’s Stay Together.
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She survived a two-decade abusive marriage to Ike Turner, with whom she formed a musical duet before launching her successful solo career.
As she recounted in her memoir, Ike Turner began hitting her in the mid-1950s, shortly after they met, and became increasingly cruel over time. Triggered by anything and everything, he would throw hot coffee in her face, choke or hit her until her eyes popped out, and then raped her. She said: Before a show he broke her jaw and she took the stage. mouth full of blood.
The artist said she was afraid to stay with Ike Turner and leave him, but said she was able to find the strength to leave him thanks to the Buddhist faith she acquired in the mid-1970s.
Ike and Tina Turner during a concert at the Parc des Expositions in Nancy, 1975.Armel BRUCELLE
At the time, the couple was preparing for a tour of the country to celebrate the 200th anniversary of independence. But one night, the singer fled the Dallas, Texas hotel room they were staying in while her partner slept. According to the Associated Press, carrying only what she was carrying, a mobile credit card and 36 cents in cash, she hurried across the freeway and checked into another hotel.
As he left the room, he recalls seeing Ike and thinking, “You just hit me for the last time you idiot,” his autobiography states.
By the late 1970s, Turner’s musical career seemed to be at an end. At the age of 40 his first solo album was a flop and his live concerts were limited to cabarets. However, with the help of some rock stars, he managed to be reborn. Rod Stewart convinced her to sing with him on Saturday Night Live, Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones invited her to his 1981-1982 tour, and David Bowie said in an on-air interview that she was his favorite singer.
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After a string of successes in Europe, Capitol Records producer John Carter suggested that he make a new studio album containing a song that Turner found very “squeaky” at the time.
“It felt like an old pop song and I didn’t like it,” he said, referring to his biggest hit What’s Love Got To Do With It?
The album, Private Dancer, was released in May 1984 and sold more than eight million copies, which also earned it four Grammy Awards, including Best Record and Song of the Year.
Turner’s musical success has coincided with roles in films such as 1985’s Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. In the late 1980s and 1990s he released popular albums including Break Every Rule, Foreign Affair and Wildest Dreams.