Music Legend Tina Turner Has Died at 83

Turner was a powerful performer who combined soaring raw vocals with a dazzling stage persona. She overcame a turbulent private life to become one of the best-selling recording artists of all time in her 40s. “Without Tina Turner there wouldn’t be a Beyoncé, there wouldn’t be a Rihanna, there wouldn’t be a Katy Perry.

Eventually Turner’s parents divorced and she settled with her mother and sister in St. Louis. When she was 16, Turner went with her sister Allene to see the Kings of Rhythm, a nightclub act led by the musician Ike Turner. Ike was impressed by Turner’s voice, and she soon became his protégée and lover. They married in 1962. Early in their relationship, Ike persuaded her to make Tina Turner her stage name, and together they formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.

Although Turner was finally free, the late 1970s were a wilderness. She recorded two unsuccessful albums but continued touring. Her comeback began in 1981, when the Rolling Stones, who had been fans of hers since their teens, asked Turner to open some shows on a US tour. Then, in 1983, she landed a solo deal with Capitol—apparently thanks to some persuasion by label mate David Bowie. By the end of that year, she had a UK hit with her cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.

Now in her early 40s, Turner’s second act comfortably eclipsed the success she had achieved with Ike. In 1984, her albumgained major success in the US and beyond. The album included “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” which became her biggest hit and won four Grammy Awards including record of the year. Turner also met and began dating Erwin Bach during this period, finally marrying him in a civil ceremony at their home in Switzerland in July 2013.

Multi-platinum albums followed in the late 1980s and 1990s, with singles including “The Best” and “GoldenEye,” for the 1995 James Bond film of the same name. Turner also appeared in a handful of films, starring opposite Mel Gibson in the 1985 box-office hitwith the music journalist Kurt Loder, in which she described her abusive relationship with Ike, and recalled attempting suicide on several occasions in the 1960s.

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