Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a poor farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, has died at the age of 83.
also became an anthem for the NRL in Australia after the singer fronted commercials for the code and acted as a special guest at rugby league events, including grand finals.
Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in the rural Tennessee community of Nutbush, which she described in her 1973 songHer father worked as an overseer on a farm and her mother left the family when the singer was 11 years old, according to the singer’s 2018 memoirTina Turner performing in New York in 1999.has often been called the first rock ‘n’ roll record, discovered her at age 17 when she grabbed the mic to sing at his club show in St Louis in 1957.
After leaving her husband, Turner spent years struggling to regain the limelight, releasing solo albums and singles that flopped and gigging at corporate conferences.In 1980, she met new manager Roger Davies, an Australian music executive who went on to manage her for three decades. That led to a solo No.1 –landed her back at the top of the charts.went on to become Turner’s biggest album, the capstone of a career that saw her sell more than 200 million records in total.
Revealing that she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of beatings during her first marriage, Turner later in life admitted that “it wasn’t a good life”.
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