BREAKING: Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a poor farming community and an 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 memoirIke Turner, whose 1951 songhas 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. Turner’s life seemed an argument against marriage, but her life with Bach was a love story the younger Tina would not have believed possible. They met in the mid-1980s, when she flew to Germany for a record promotion and he picked her up at the airport. He was more than a decade younger than her – “the prettiest face,” she said of him in the HBO documentary — and the attraction was mutual.
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