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Tina Turner was a singer, songwriter, actress and author. Dubbed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music with her vocal prowess and stage presence. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.
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entertainment · Singer-songwriter and actress (1939–2023) · singer · dancer · autobiographer · songwriter · recording artist · actor · choreographer · musician · film director · also Tina Turner, Tina Turner-Bullock, Martha Nell Bullock, Turner
Born 26 November 1939 · Died 24 May 2023 · Q131814
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“But when I look and see it done so well, I feel proud. And I feel like I”
“I was living a life of death, I didn”
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“emotionally unequipped to return to the US and respond to the night of celebration in the manner she would want”
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The Guardian: Ken Turner, the 100-year-old artist who flattened a Tesla with a tank: ‘I’m not a revolutionary, I’m a simple rebel’
Published video “Tina Turner - Missing You (Live In Amsterdam, 1996)”.
Public attention spiked: 34,723 Wikipedia readers in one day, 6.9× the usual 5,023, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Death and tributes
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Published video “A Global Celebration of Tina Turner”.
Published video “Tina Turner - If This Is Our Last Time (Official Lyric Video)”.
Released ep “The Best: Love”.
Published video “Tina Turner - GoldenEye (Top of the Pops, 1995)”.
Published video “🎶Love one another, save it for rainy day🎶”.
Published video “On this day in 2021, Tina Turner was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.”.
Published video “Tina Turner showed the world that love isn’t about settling ❤️”.
Published video “Love’s complicated and Tina gets it.”.
Published video “Burn, baby burn 🔥”.
Published video “"Sunset On Sunset" from the iconic album, Love Explosion ❤️”.
Released ep “The Best: Rock”.
The Guardian: Tina Turner: Hot for You Baby review – she’s in fine voice, but this lost 1984 song is no classic
The Guardian: Tina Turner’s honesty about trauma continues to inspire, says writer of West End hit
Snopes rated the claim “Photograph shared in March 2024, showed Tina Turner on the Eiffel Tower.” True.
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The Guardian: Tina Turner remembered by Martyn Ware
Released album “Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll”.
The Guardian: ‘Larger than life’: Tina Turner outfits to star in V&A’s Diva exhibition
The Guardian: Letter: Tina Turner obituary
The Guardian: ‘I’m very proud it’s there’: how Tina Turner’s one-room school became a museum
The Guardian: Raw talent and a refusal to accept barriers made Tina Turner great | Maureen Mahon
Snopes rated the claim “Tina Turner lived in Switzerland for nearly 30 years and relinquished her U.S. citizenship in 2013.” True.
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The Guardian: ‘Inspirational’: fans pay tribute to Tina Turner outside London musical
The Guardian: ‘An inspiration to women around the world’: readers remember Tina Turner
The Guardian: Singer, diva, fashion icon, trailblazer, dancer: the five sides of Tina Turner
Died 2023-05-24.
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Snopes rated the claim “Singer Tina Turner died in January 2023, after a battle with laryngeal cancer.” False.
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Released album “Presenting Tina Turner”.
“People think my life has been tough but I think it's been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, it's how you deal with it.”
Awarded Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (2021).
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Released album “Do You Want Some Action?: Live in Barcelona, 1990 (2021 Remaster)”.
Released album “Addicted to Love Tina Turner Recordings”.
Turner appeared in the HBO documentary film Tina directed by Dan Lindsay and T
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Released album “FM Broadcast Tina Turner & Whitney Houston”.
Came out of retirement to collaborate with Norwegian producer Kygo on a remix of "What's Love Got to Do with It"
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Turner released her third book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Tina Turner’s daughter performs her mother's song” False.
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Snopes.com rated the claim “Tina Turner is gravely ill due to stomach or intestinal cancer, a stroke, and/or rejection of a kidney or liver transplant.” Mixture.
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Released album “The Many Faces of Tina Turner: A Journey Through the Inner World of Tina Turner”.
“s funeral and spread his ashes into the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. As a teenager, Ronnie Turner played bass guitar in a band called Manufactured Funk with musician Patrick Moten. He toured with his mother in 1979. In 1989, Turner said she had cut him off because he was”
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“as an old person, I have forgiven him, but I would not work with him. He asked for one more tour with me, and I said,”
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Turner told The Sunday Times that "as an old person, I have forgiven him, but I would not work with him
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Released album “The Best”.
PolitiFact rated the claim “Singer Tina Turner said, "This Thanksgiving Is The First Time in 8 Years That I am Thankful For Our President, God Bless Him And His Supporters."” Pants on Fire.
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After Turner had been diagnosed with kidney cancer, Bach donated a kidney to her and she underwent transplant surgery
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Released album “The Album”.
Released album “Love Within Beyond”.
Released album “Love Songs”.
Became a citizen of Switzerland and was issued a Swiss passport
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Turner applied for Swiss citizenship, stating she would renounce her citizenship in the United States
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Turner relinquished her US citizenship and became a Swiss citizen, residing in Switzerland until her death in Küsnacht in 2023
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Three weeks after her wedding to Erwin Bach, she had a stroke and needed to learn to walk again
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Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for What's Love Got to Do with It (2012).
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“What's Love Got to Do with It”
Released album “The 12” Collection”.
Beyond's second album Children – With Children United in Prayer followed and charted again in Switzerland
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Released album “Children Beyond: Understanding Through Singing”.
Released album “Beyond (Buddhist and Christian Prayers)”.
Released album “Tina Live”.
Released album “The Platinum Collection”.
Co-created a spiritual music project with Shak-Dagsay and Swiss singer Regula Curti called Beyond
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Turner co-founded a global music foundation, Beyond Foundation, with Swiss Christian musician Regula Curti and Swiss Tibetan Buddhist Dechen Shak-Dagsay
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Turner retired from live performances
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Retired from performing after completing the Tina
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Released album “15 Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Tina!”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Album of the Year for River: The Joni Letters (2008).
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Released album “Greatest Hits”.
Released album “Tina / Simply the Best”.
Released album “Evergreens”.
Turner's spokesperson issued the following statement: "Tina hasn't had any contact with Ike in more than 30 years
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Released album “Keeps On Rockin’”.
In 2007, Ike told Jet that he still loved Turner and he had written a letter apologizing for "putting her and the kids through that kind of stuff", but he never sent it.
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Had two children from a previous relationship, and died of complications from colon cancer in December 2022
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Ike told Jet that he still loved Turner and he had written a letter apologizing for "putting her and the kids through that kind of stuff", but he never sent it
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Released album “Tina & Friends”.
Awarded Kennedy Center Honors (2005).
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Her highest-charting album in the United States
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Released album “All the Best (The Live Collection)”.
Released album “All the Best”.
Released album “The Album: Most Famous Hit”.
Released album “Country My Way”.
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for Proud Mary (2003).
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Released album “One Last Time Live in Concert”.
Released album “Shake a Tail Feather”.
Released album “Hit Collection 2000”.
Released album “All That Glitters”.
Released album “Twenty Four Seven”.
Awarded Grammy Hall of Fame for River Deep – Mountain High (1999).
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Awarded MOBO Awards (1999).
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Released album “Dues Paid”.
Released album “The Best of Tina Turner”.
Released album “Wildest Dream World Tour (live in London 1996)”.
Released album “Wildest Dreams”.
Released album “Best Ballads”.
Released album “Tina Turner”.
Released ep “Collector’s Edition”.
Turner released the Wildest Dreams album, accompanied by her "Wildest Dreams Tour"
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Released album “Selection of Tina Turner”.
Released album “Simply Tina”.
Turner returned to the studio, releasing "GoldenEye", which was written by Bono and the Edge of U2 for the James Bond film GoldenEye
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Released album “The Magic Collection”.
Released album “Live & Alive”.
Released album “The Starlight Collection”.
Released album “The Collected Recordings: Sixties to Nineties”.
Released album “Tina Turner Sings Country”.
Released album “What’s Love Live”.
Released album “What’s Love Got to Do With It”.
Released album “Good Hearted Woman”.
Released album “On Fire!! The Best of Tina Live”.
The semi-autobiographical film What's Love Got to Do with It was released
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Turner embarked on her What's Love
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Released album “Soul Deep”.
Released album “Simply the Best”.
Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
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Released album “Foreign Affair Tour (Live @ Wildparkstadion Karlsruhe Germany 90)”.
Released album “Unlimited Rock”.
Released album “Private Dance Mixes”.
Turner embarked on her Foreign Affair European Tour, which drew in nearly four million spectators—breaking the record for a European tour that was previously set by the Rolling Stones
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Released album “Foreign Affair”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Tina Live in Europe (1989).
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Turner said she had cut him off because he was "determined to be self-destructive
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Released album “Tina Live in Europe”.
Released album “Rio ’88”.
Released album “River Deep, Mountain High”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Back Where You Started (1987).
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Released album “Zabou”.
Released album “So Fine”.
Released album “Break Every Rule”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for One of the Living (1986).
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“was doing great with me. Then Ike told him he couldn”
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Turner released her sixth solo album, Break Every Rule, which reached number 1 in four countries and sold over five million copies worldwide within its first year of release
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Turner met German music executive Erwin Bach, who was sent by her European record label (EMI) to greet her at Düsseldorf Airport
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And was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice—first with Ike Turner in 1991 and again as a solo artist in 2021
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Told Rolling Stone: "Harry was real popular and had tons of girlfriends, but eventually I got him, and we went steady for a year
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance for Better Be Good to Me (1985).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance for What's Love Got to Do with It (1985).
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Awarded Grammy Award for Record of the Year for What's Love Got to Do with It (1985).
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Released album “Tina Live: Private Dancer Tour”.
And became her only number-one hit on the Billboard Hot 100
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Turner achieved her first and only number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "What's Love Got to Do with It"
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Released album “Private Dancer”.
Turner recorded the Temptations' "Ball of Confusion" with the UK production team B
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Turner appeared as a special guest on Chuck Berry's television special performed at The Roxy in West Hollywood
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In a 1981 interview with People, Turner revealed publicly for the first time that she had been abused by Ike.
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Released album “The Edge”.
Australian manager Roger Davies agreed to manage Turner after seeing her perform at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco
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Released album “Love Explosion”.
Released album “Rough”.
Formed a new band and re-emerged with new costumes designed by Bob Mackie
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Following an altercation, Tina Turner fled from Ike Turner in Dallas, Texas
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Ike & Tina Turner headlined at the Waldorf Astoria New York and signed a television deal with CBS-TV
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Told People that she didn't want Ike to think she was abandoning him: "I've always been in there helping him and now, in Tommy, I've learned I can do things without him
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Tina Turner released another solo album: Acid Queen
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Released album “Acid Queen”.
Released album “Tina Turns The Country On!”.
Awarded Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals for Proud Mary (1972).
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The Turners opened Bolic Sound recording studio near their home in Inglewood
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Ike's violence and infidelity during their marriage led Turner to attempt suicide in 1968 by overdosing on Valium pills.
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Releasing the album Outta Season in 1969
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Became the first black artist and the first woman to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone, which later ranked her among the greatest artists and greatest singers of all time
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Music producer Phil Spector attended an Ike & Tina Turner show at a club on the Sunset Strip, and he invited them to appear in the concert film The Big T
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Ike purchased a house in the View Park area
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Earning them a Grammy nomination for Best Rock and Roll Performance
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Ike Turner wrote "A Fool in Love" for singer Art Lassiter
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After recording "A Fool in Love" in 1960, Turner told Ike she did not want to continue the relationship.
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Turner told Ike she did not want to continue the relationship
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Made her recording debut under the name Little Ann on the single "Boxtop," alongside Ike Turner and vocalist Carlson Oliver
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He returned to his hometown of Clarksdale before their son, Craig, was born in August 1958, leaving Turner to raise Craig as a single parent.
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Following the death of her grandmother, Bullock moved to St
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When Bullock was 11, her mother Zelma left the family without warning, seeking freedom from her abusive relationship with Floyd by relocating to St
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Born 1939-11-26.
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