28 May. 2023: Rock ‘N’ Roll legend passes away ! Read to know more about the legend.
Tina Turner, a household name for music lovers around the world, passed away at home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, close to Zurich, following a protracted illness.
Tina Turner, a household name for music lovers around the world, passed away at home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, close to Zurich, following a protracted illness.
Turner started her career in the 1950s, at a time when rock and roll was just getting started, and she later became an MTV superstar.
Turner embodied 1980s fashion in the music video for her number-one single "What's Love Got to Do with It,". Turner fit in perfectly with the 1980s pop scene, which favoured electronically created sounds. She had a love for musical experimentation and plainly phrased ballads
Turner, who was referred to as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," received six of her eight Grammy nominations in the 1980s. Twelve of her tracks, including "Typical Male," "The Best," "Private Dancer," and "Better Be Good to Me," reached the Top 40 during the decade.
180,000 people attended her performance in Rio de Janeiro in 1988, which is still one of the biggest concert crowds for a single musician.
Anna Mae Bullock, later known as Tina Turner waa born on November 26, 1939, in the remote village in Tennessee, called Nutbush, which she referred to in her 1973 song "Nutbush City Limits" as a "quiet little old community, a one-horse town."
She was discovered by Ike Turner, whose 1951 song "Rocket 88" is frequently referred to be the first rock and roll record, when she took the stage to perform at his club event in St. Louis in 1957 at the age of 17.
As the lead vocalist in the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, Tina used her powerful voice and diligently practiced dancing moves. In the 1960s and 1970s, she worked with legendary musicians like The Who and Phil Spector, and in 1967, she was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
Years after she retired, her name still draws crowds. The musical theater production "TINA: The Tina Turner Musical," which stars Adrienne Warren in the lead role and sings the star's life story, debuted in London's West End in 2018 and later transferred to Broadway. It is now still in production. And "Tina," an HBO documentary on her life, was released in 2021.
