{"id":236104,"date":"2023-05-29T12:00:45","date_gmt":"2023-05-29T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=236104"},"modified":"2023-05-26T04:59:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-26T03:59:22","slug":"tina-turner-queen-of-rock-roll-dead-at-83","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2023\/05\/tina-turner-queen-of-rock-roll-dead-at-83\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner, Queen of Rock & Roll, Dead at 83"},"content":{"rendered":"

24 May 2023 – Legendary Singer “Died Peacefully” Today in Switzerland after a Long Illness<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Tina Turner, 1969 Jack Robinson\/Hulton Archive\/Getty Images<\/p><\/div>\n

Tina Turner<\/a>, the<\/span> raspy-voiced fireball who overcame domestic abuse and industry ambivalence to emerge as one of rock and soul\u2019s brassiest, most rousing and most inspirational performers, died Wednesday <\/b>at age 83.\u00a0<\/b><\/p>\n

\u201cTina Turner, the \u2018Queen of Rock & Roll\u2019 has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in K\u00fcsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,\u201d her family said in a statement toay. \u201cWith her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.\u201d A cause of death was not immediately available, though Turner had a stroke and battled both kidney failure and intestinal cancer in recent years.<\/p>\n

Starting with her performances with her ex-husband Ike, Turner injected an uninhibited, volcanic stage presence into pop. Even with choreographed backup singers \u2014 both with Ike and during her own career \u2014 Turner never seemed reined in. Her influence on rock, R&B, and soul singing and performance was also immeasurable. Her delivery influenced everyone from Mick Jagger to Mary J. Blige, and her high-energy stage presence (topped with an array of gravity-defying wigs) was passed down to Janet Jackson and Beyonc\u00e9. Turner\u2019s message \u2014 one that resounded with generations of women \u2014 was that she could hold her own onstage against any man.<\/p>\n

But Turner\u2019s other legacy was more personal and involved a far more complex man. During her time with Ike \u2014 a demanding and often drug-addled bandleader and guitarist \u2014 her husband often beat and humiliated her. Her subsequent rebirth, starting with her massively popular, Grammy-winning 1984 makeover Private Dancer<\/i>, made her a symbol of survival and renewal.<\/p>\n

Born Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, Turner grew up in Nutbush, Tennessee, a rural and unincorporated area in Haywood County chronicled in her song \u201cNutbush City Limits.\u201d<\/a> According to Turner, her family were \u201cwell-to-do farmers\u201d who lived well off the business of sharecropping. Still, Turner and her older sister Ruby Aillene dealt with abandonment issues when their parents left to work elsewhere.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy mother and father didn\u2019t love each other, so they were always fighting,\u201d Turner recalled in a 1986<\/a> Rolling Stone<\/i> interview. Her mother first left when Tina was 10 to live in St. Louis; her father left three years later. Turner relocated to Brownsville, Tennessee, to live with her grandmother.<\/p>\n

After high school, she began working as a nurse\u2019s aide in hopes of entering that profession. Frequently, Turner and her sister would head to nightclubs in St. Louis and East St. Louis, where she first saw Ike Turner perform as the bandleader of Kings of Rhythm. The 18-year-old became enamored with the guitarist eight years her senior and his group\u2019s music. One night, the drummer passed Turner the microphone while she was in the audience. Ike then invited Tina to be the group\u2019s guest vocalist and instructed her on voice control and performance. As \u201cLittle Ann,\u201d she sang alongside Carlson Oliver on Ike Turner\u2019s \u201cBox Top,\u201d<\/a> which was her first studio recording.<\/p>\n

In 1958, the same year that \u201cBox Top\u201d was released, Turner gave birth to her first child, Raymond Craig, with Raymond Hill, the Kings of Rhythm\u2019s saxophonist. Soon after, Tina moved in with Ike to help raise the musician\u2019s two sons after he had broken up with their mother. A sexual relationship ensued, even though Turner told RS<\/em> in 1984 that she wasn\u2019t initially attracted to him: \u201cI liked him as a brother,\u201d she said<\/a>. \u201cI didn\u2019t want a relationship. But it just sort of grew on me.\u201d Inspired by the movie serial Sheena, Queen of the Jungle<\/i>, Turner changed her stage name per Ike\u2019s request.<\/p>\n

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