Post by KotO on May 24, 2023 22:00:32 GMT
www.yahoo.com/entertainment/rock-and-soul-icon-tina-turner-dead-at-age-83-210605018.html
Tina Turner — one of rock and soul music’s greatest icons and comeback stories — has passed away, leaving a seven-decade legacy that blazed a trail for divas like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Jazmine Sullivan and Annie Lennox. In a statement released Wednesday, her representative announced: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ 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.”
The 12-time Grammy-winner, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and fiery, gritty voice of classics like “River Deep – Mountain High,” “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “What's Love Got to Do With It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and the fittingly titled “The Best” had suffered various health issues in recent years, including a debilitating stroke in 2013, intestinal cancer in 2016 and a kidney transplant in 2017.
Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tenn., and she began singing at age 11 in Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church choir. She launched her music career in her late teens, after meeting her future husband, bandleader Ike Turner, at the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis. She was asked to officially join Ike’s group, Kings of Rhythm, after grabbing the microphone during an intermission and impressing Ike with her impromptu performance of B.B. King’s “You Know I Love You.” Her first record, billed as Little Ann, was on Kings of Rhythm’s 1958 single “Boxtop.” She later changed her stage name to Tina, which rhymed with “Sheena,” upon Ike’s suggestion; the name was inspired by the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which influenced her wild, vibrant onstage persona.
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A favorite:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdr9Wpj1meM&ab_channel=BobSeger1981
Tina Turner — one of rock and soul music’s greatest icons and comeback stories — has passed away, leaving a seven-decade legacy that blazed a trail for divas like Beyoncé, Rihanna, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse, Jazmine Sullivan and Annie Lennox. In a statement released Wednesday, her representative announced: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll,’ 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.”
The 12-time Grammy-winner, two-time Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and fiery, gritty voice of classics like “River Deep – Mountain High,” “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “What's Love Got to Do With It,” “Better Be Good to Me,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and the fittingly titled “The Best” had suffered various health issues in recent years, including a debilitating stroke in 2013, intestinal cancer in 2016 and a kidney transplant in 2017.
Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tenn., and she began singing at age 11 in Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church choir. She launched her music career in her late teens, after meeting her future husband, bandleader Ike Turner, at the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis. She was asked to officially join Ike’s group, Kings of Rhythm, after grabbing the microphone during an intermission and impressing Ike with her impromptu performance of B.B. King’s “You Know I Love You.” Her first record, billed as Little Ann, was on Kings of Rhythm’s 1958 single “Boxtop.” She later changed her stage name to Tina, which rhymed with “Sheena,” upon Ike’s suggestion; the name was inspired by the comic book character Sheena, Queen of the Jungle, which influenced her wild, vibrant onstage persona.
Long article, please read on.
A favorite:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qdr9Wpj1meM&ab_channel=BobSeger1981