{"id":575892,"date":"2023-05-24T21:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/tina-turner-dead-pop-singer-and-rb-legend-was-83\/"},"modified":"2023-05-24T21:49:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-24T18:49:00","slug":"tina-turner-dead-pop-singer-and-rb-legend-was-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/tina-turner-dead-pop-singer-and-rb-legend-was-83\/","title":{"rendered":"#Tina Turner Dead: Pop Singer and R&B Legend Was 83"},"content":{"rendered":"
Soulful diva Tina Turner, who had a lengthy run of \u201960s and \u201970s R&B hits and struck major pop stardom in the \u201980s, died Wednesday in Switzerland. She was 83.<\/p>\n

\u201cTina Turner, the \u2018Queen of Rock\u2019n Roll\u2019 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,\u201d her representative said in a statement to Variety<\/em>.<\/p>\n

More than a decade after her crossover hit \u201cProud Mary\u201d with husband Ike, Tina Turner ascended to the pinnacle of pop fame with the 1984 Capitol Records album \u201cPrivate Dancer.\u201d The collection, which spawned a trio of top-10 pop hits, sold five million copies and garnered four Grammy Awards. Though she never matched that breakthrough solo success, she recorded and toured profitably until her retirement in 2000.<\/p>\n

Raw-voiced, leggy, peripatetic and provocative onstage, the magnetic Turner segued effortlessly into bigscreen roles, app<\/a>earing as the Acid Queen in Ken Russell\u2019s 1975 adaptation of the Who\u2019s rock opera \u201cTommy\u201d and as villainess Aunty Entity in George Miller\u2019s action sequel \u201cMad Max Beyond Thunderdome.\u201d She sang the title song, penned by Bono and the Edge of U2, for the 1995 James Bond pic \u201cGoldenEye.\u201d<\/p>\n

The winner of eight Grammys, Turner was a 1991 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and was recognized at the 2005 Kennedy Center Honors for her career achievements.<\/p>\n

Turner was still in her teens when she began recording with future husband Ike Turner; their tumultuous partnership produced 15 years of popular singles, culminating in the 1971 crossover smash \u201cProud Mary.\u201d However, in 1976 the vocalist fled her abusive marriage; she detailed her violence-scarred relationship in the 1986 bestseller \u201cI, Tina,\u201d which served as the basis for the 1993 biopic \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It.\u201d<\/p>\n

She was born Anna Mae Bullock in the farming community of Nutbush, Tenn. (a locale she would commemorate in the self-penned 1973 song \u201cNutbush City Limits\u201d). With older her sister Ruby, she was shuttled between various relatives as a child; her mother left her abusive father when she was 11. At 16, the girls were reunited with their mother in St. Louis.<\/p>\n

After graduating from high school, she began working as a nurse\u2019s aide, but also started frequenting St. Louis\u2019 Black nightspots. Though she had no musical experience outside the church choir, she managed to sit in, at a 1958 engagement at Club Manhattan, with Ike Turner\u2019s Kings of Rhythm.<\/p>\n

Turner \u2013 already a veteran guitarist, keyboardist, bandleader and indie-label A&R man \u2013 was impressed enough to give the neophyte musician a spot as a backup singer, billed as \u201cLittle Ann,\u201d in his group. She soon became involved with Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill, and bore him a son, also named Raymond, at 19.<\/p>\n

In 1960, after vocalist Art Lassiter failed to show up for a recording session, she was drafted to take the lead on a new Turner-penned song, \u201cA Fool in Love.\u201d The tape found its way to Juggy Murray, president of the indie R&B label Sue Records. At Murray\u2019s suggestion, Ike Turner rechristened his newly minted lead vocalist Tina Turner. (She bore Turner\u2019s son Ronald that same year, but the musicians would not wed until 1962.)<\/p>\n

\u201cA Fool in Love\u201d rose to No. 2 on the R&B chart, and scratched No. 27 on the pop singles list. Several other major R&B singles followed on Sue: \u201cI Idolize You\u201d (No. 5, 1960), \u201cIt\u2019s Gonna Work Out Fine\u201d (No. 2, and also No. 14 pop, 1961), \u201cPoor Fool\u201d (No. 4, 1961) and \u201cTra La La La La\u201d (No. 9, 1962).<\/p>\n

The Ike & Tina Turner Revue bounced from label to label, and none of their mid-\u201960s singles secured chart traction. However, the act\u2019s high-voltage live performances and dynamic frontwoman continued to draw attention. After a 1965 appearance in \u201cThe Big TNT Show\u201d \u2013 a concert attraction screened in moviehouses, like its precursor \u201cThe T.A.M.I. Show\u201d \u2013 the Turners were approached by producer Phil Spector, who had conducted the \u201cTNT Show\u201d house band.<\/p>\n

The architect of several huge-sounding hit pop 45s by the Ronettes, the Crystals and other R&B-skewed acts, Spector paid Ike Turner $20,000 to sit on the sidelines, and employed Tina as the lead vocalist on a single he envisioned as his crowning achievement. Penned by Spector, Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich and cut in March 1966 with a huge, thunderous orchestra at Hollywood\u2019s Gold Star Studio, \u201cRiver Deep, Mountain High\u201d was the apotheosis of the producer\u2019s fabled \u201cWall of Sound.\u201d<\/p>\n

It also became one of the most storied flops in U.S. record industry history. Though it reached the top five in the U.K., \u201cRiver Deep\u201d peaked at No. 88 in the States, and proved to be the most crushing commercial debacle of Spector\u2019s career. Nonetheless, the towering number sports what may be Turner\u2019s most intense vocal performance; it was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.<\/p>\n

Groping for hits in the late \u201960s, the Turners frequently relied on covers for material. One of these, a rendition of Otis Redding\u2019s \u201cI\u2019ve Been Loving You Too Long,\u201d reached No. 23 in 1969. That same year, the Ike & Tina Turner Revue opened on the Rolling Stones\u2019 U.S. tour; Tina\u2019s sensual performance of the song became a highlight of \u201cGimme Shelter,\u201d directors Albert and David Maysles\u2019 1970 doc about the English band\u2019s fateful concert trek.<\/p>\n

In 1971, the Turners scored their biggest pop hit with the Liberty Records single \u201cProud Mary,\u201d a blazing rendering of Creedence Clearwater Revival\u2019s No. 2 single of 1969. The cover climbed to No. 4 on the pop chart and reaped a Grammy as best R&B performance by a duo or group. Its success pushed the studio album \u201cWorkin\u2019 Together\u201d and a subsequent live set recorded at Carnegie Hall into the pop top 25.<\/p>\n

After a final top-40 pop hit by Ike and Tina, \u201cNutbush City Limits\u201d (No. 22, 1973), Tina embarked on a solo career with the United Artists set \u201cTina Turns the Country On\u201d; the 1974 LP, comprising renditions of country-flavored material, was not a hit, but earned Turner her first solo Grammy nomination. After returning to the U.S. after filming \u201cTommy\u201d in England, she released a second solo collection, \u201cAcid Queen\u201d (1975), which capitalized on her film appearance.<\/p>\n

By that time, not only was the Ike & Tina Turner Revue over-exposed after 10 albums in just three years, but the Turners\u2019 marriage was coming apart. Ike Turner had long been an abusive husband, but his violence escalated along with his cocaine use. Finally, after a brutal beating inflicted on the way to a Dallas hotel in July 1976, Tina quickly left Ike, exited the revue and filed for divorce. The end of the marriage was finalized in 1978, with Tina assuming a host of business-related debts, including an IRS lien.<\/p>\n

It took the better part of a decade for her to return to prominence in the music business. She toured the U.S. and abroad, but her recordings for UA and EMI failed commercially. Finally, with the sponsorship of David Bowie, she secured a short-term deal with Capitol Records.<\/p>\n

After her 1983 cover of Al Green\u2019s \u201cLet\u2019s Stay Together\u201d became a hit in Europe, the label was encouraged to record a full album with Turner. Cut in England with a panoply of producers and songwriters, \u201cPrivate Dancer\u201d was issued in June 1984. Its leadoff single, \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It,\u201d shot to No. 1 on the U.S. singles chart, spending six months on the 45 rolls. It was followed up by \u201cBetter Be Good to Me\u201d (No. 5) and \u201cPrivate Dancer\u201d (No. 7). The album peaked at No. 3, but clung to the chart for more than two years, selling more than 5 million copies.<\/p>\n

Turner\u2019s solo triumph was further institutionalized at the 1985 Grammy Awards, where \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It\u201d was named record of the year and best female pop vocal performance; the tune\u2019s writers, Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, were honored with the song of the year trophy. Additionally, \u201cBetter Be Good to Me\u201d was named best female rock performance. Turner followed up the kudos with a 177-date world tour that year. That summer, \u201cWe Don\u2019t Need Another Hero,\u201d drawn from the \u201cMad Max Beyond Thunderdome\u201d soundtrack, reached No. 2 on the pop chart.<\/p>\n

Her hot streak continued in 1986 with the publication of her candid bestselling memoir \u201cI, Tina,\u201d co-written with MTV\u2019s Kurt Loder, and the No. 4 album \u201cBreak Every Rule\u201d; the album contained \u201cBack Where You Started,\u201d which collected a best female rock vocal performance Grammy. The 1988 album \u201cForeign Affair\u201d (No. 31) included the single \u201cThe Best\u201d; originally recorded by Bonnie Tyler, it became a No. 15 pop single, and later attained ubiquity through play at U.S. and international sporting events. The \u201988 concert set \u201cTina Live in Europe\u201d was recognized with a Grammy as best female rock vocal performance.<\/p>\n

In 1993, Turner scored her final U.S. top 10 hit with \u201cI Don\u2019t Wanna Fight,\u201d a song recorded for the top-20 soundtrack of the biopic \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It.\u201d Director Brian Gibson\u2019s feature starred Laurence Fishburne and Angela Bassett, who both received Oscar nods for their work as Ike and Tina. Even more than Turner\u2019s autobiography, upon which it was loosely based, the film focused further attention on the issues of spousal abuse and domestic violence. (Ike Turner, who maintained in interviews and his autobiography that the charges of abuse were exaggerated, died of an apparent cocaine overdose in December 2007.)<\/p>\n

Turner\u2019s later solo albums for Virgin Records, \u201cWildest Dreams\u201d (1996) and \u201cTwenty Four Seven\u201d (1999), were comparatively less successful, peaking at No. 61 and No. 21, respectively. Her 2000 world tour \u2013 the most successful trek of the year, according to concert tracker Pollstar \u2013 prefaced her announcement that she was retiring.<\/p>\n

On her sole latter-day return to the recording studio, Turner managed to make an impression: She shared in the 2008 album of the year Grammy for her restrained, jazzy performance of Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cEdith and the Kingpin\u201d on pianist Herbie Hancock\u2019s \u201cRiver: The Joni Letters.\u201d<\/p>\n

A devotee of Buddhist chanting since the early 1970s who never abandoned the Baptist faith of her youth, Turner released \u201cBeyond,\u201d a collaborative album of Buddhist and Christian music and chanting, on the indie New Earth label in 2012.<\/p>\n

In 2013 \u2013 the same year she relinquished her American citizenship and took up residency in Switzerland \u2014 Turner married German music exec Irwin Bach, her companion of 27 years.<\/p>\n

In 2014, Turner\u2019s reps denied rumors, widely reported in the European press, that the singer had suffered a stroke.<\/p>\n

She is survived by her husband and two sons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n