Grammy-winning Tina Turner was a rock ’n' roll original with her high-octane, powerful yet soulful voice and iconic hairstyles.
“How do we say farewell to a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world?” Bassett said in a statement to The Times.
“I’m a strong person, because I had dealt with problems when my mother and father separated and I went from relative to relative and had problems in school,” she told The Times in 1998. “It was tough all the way, so my skin was already toughened to the life and striving to get through. I didn’t dwell on it, I just kept going.”“I am looked down upon because I’m Black,” she told The Times. “It’s forever. It’s like a curse on you.
In the late 1960s the Rolling Stones invited Ike and Tina Turner to join their U.K. tour and added them to the American leg of their world tour in 1969, their performances captured in the 1970 film “Gimme Shelter.” That unexpected success and the sheer size of the crowds prompted Ike to have Tina record covers of rock songs, including the Beatles’ “Come Together” and Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Proud Mary,” which became their first U.S. top 10 hit and their first million-selling single.
Tina Turner’s son Ronnie Turner died outside his home last week at 62. An autopsy shows he died of complications related to metastatic colon cancer. What would become a remarkable second act began in 1984 with her solo album “Private Dancer,” which spawned the hits “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and “Better Be Good to Me.” She continued to perform and record until 1999, when she released “Twenty Four Seven,” her 10th and final solo album.
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