Tina Turner, 83, the electrifying singer and stage performer reportedly died on Tuesday in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, , after a prolonged illness, according to agency reports.
Tina, renowned for her hit song, “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” became a cult figure globally and reigned grandly in the music world of the 60s and 70s .
Born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital, Tina Turner spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich after becoming a Swiss citizen a decade ago.
Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off.
She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 12 Grammys, was voted along with Ike (ex husband) into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021) and was honoured at the Kennedy Center in 2005, with Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey among those praising her.
Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
With admirers ranging from Beyoncé to Mick Jagger, Turner was one of the world’s most successful entertainers, known for a core of pop, rock and rhythm and blues favorites: “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” and the hits she had in the ’80s, among them “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and a cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”
Source: AP