Tina Turner, the growling songstress whose explosive stage presence electrified the world, left an indelible mark on 20th-century rock with five decades of hits. | News24Arts
Tina Turner, the growling songstress whose explosive stage presence electrified fans the world over, left an indelible mark on 20th-century rock with five decades of hits.
Tina Turner, the growling songstress whose explosive stage presence electrified fans the world over, left an indelible mark on 20th-century rock with five decades of hits - first with husband Ike Turner, but most memorably as a wildly successful solo act. Long before she snowballed into a global phenomenon, Turner's early career - originally as a soul and R&B siren - was a roller coaster for the singer, who admitted attempting suicide at the height of her ex-husband's physical and emotional abuse.
A Wembley Stadium concert in 2000 saw a 60-year-old Turner holding nothing back, grinding across the stage in stiletto heels and her trademark leather miniskirt.GALLERY |With her husband Ike Turner, Tina found fame with their version of the gospel-influencedThe duo's take on the song, with its famous chorus about a Mississippi steamboat"rolling, rolling on the river", was more rock and raunchier than the original, winning them a Grammy.
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