B-13 Peer Review Presents: A Moment In Rock History The Incomparable, The Legendary
Queen Of Rock: Mrs. Tina Turner
Born on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee Tina Turner became a star performing with husband, Ike Turner. She divorced him in 1978, after years of abuse, and reinvented herself as a solo performer. She's had a number one hit with "What's Love Got to Do With It," acted in a Mad Max film, and recorded a James Bond theme. Now semi-retired, she still tours and enjoys her position as rock royalty.
"There is no strict regimen that says when you are in your late 40s you cannot wear a minidress."
Profile
After a slow start, Turner's solo career took off with a remake of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" in 1983. Her much anticipated solo album, Private Dancer, won four Grammy Awards and sold well over 20 million copies worldwide. Subsequent albums include Break Every Rule (1986), Tina Live in Europe (1988, Grammy for Female Rock Vocal Performance) and Foreign Affair, which included the hit single "(Simply) The Best." In the 1990s, she released Wildest Dreams and Twenty Four Seven.
Turner also launched an acting career, appearing in the films Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdrome starring Mel Gibson and The Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has also made several recordings for soundtracks, including "We Don't Need Another Hero," "Goldeneye," and "He Lives In You" for The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. In 1993, Turner's best-selling 1986 autobiography I, Tina was made into the motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It? starring Angela Bassett. Her soundtrack for the movie went double platinum in the U.S.
In 1986, Turner moved to Europe to live with German-born EMI record company executive Erwin Bach. She now splits her time between England, Switzerland, and France.
Though she is now semi-retired, Turner does make rare appearances and recordings. She returned to the stage in 2008 to embark on her "Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour." It became one of the highest-selling ticketed shows of 2008 and 2009. She is currently on her European leg of the tour.
- New York Times
Tina Turner is a one-person summation of a huge chunk of rock-and-roll history. She is the female incarnation of an important strain of rock culture that embraces southern gospel-rock, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones. Miss Turner's raw, rending vocal delivery, in which the voice often seems to tear itself apart without ever actually disintegrating, also encompasses the red-hot mama, blues-meets-rock-and-roll tradition embodied by Janis Joplin. And in pure show business terms her provocative self-presentation - with heavily teased dark gold wig, prancing the stage in spiked high heels, and her friendly rock-and-roll sneer - have served as an inspiration for male rockers like Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. In a very real sense, she did more to invent them than vice versa.
Born on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee Tina Turner became a star performing with husband, Ike Turner. She divorced him in 1978, after years of abuse, and reinvented herself as a solo performer. She's had a number one hit with "What's Love Got to Do With It," acted in a Mad Max film, and recorded a James Bond theme. Now semi-retired, she still tours and enjoys her position as rock royalty.
"There is no strict regimen that says when you are in your late 40s you cannot wear a minidress."
Profile
Singer. Born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee. Turner is of African American, Navajo, and Cherokee ancestry and was raised in St. Louis by her mother. It was there that she met rock and roll pioneer Ike Turner. The two achieved considerable success as a rhythm-and-blues vocal duo and became known for their electrifying stage and television performances. However, after years of abuse, the marriage and professional partnership was officially dissolved in 1976.
After a slow start, Turner's solo career took off with a remake of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together" in 1983. Her much anticipated solo album, Private Dancer, won four Grammy Awards and sold well over 20 million copies worldwide. Subsequent albums include Break Every Rule (1986), Tina Live in Europe (1988, Grammy for Female Rock Vocal Performance) and Foreign Affair, which included the hit single "(Simply) The Best." In the 1990s, she released Wildest Dreams and Twenty Four Seven.
Turner also launched an acting career, appearing in the films Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdrome starring Mel Gibson and The Last Action Hero with Arnold Schwarzenegger. She has also made several recordings for soundtracks, including "We Don't Need Another Hero," "Goldeneye," and "He Lives In You" for The Lion King II: Simba's Pride. In 1993, Turner's best-selling 1986 autobiography I, Tina was made into the motion picture What's Love Got to Do with It? starring Angela Bassett. Her soundtrack for the movie went double platinum in the U.S.
In 1986, Turner moved to Europe to live with German-born EMI record company executive Erwin Bach. She now splits her time between England, Switzerland, and France.
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- New York Times
Tina Turner is a one-person summation of a huge chunk of rock-and-roll history. She is the female incarnation of an important strain of rock culture that embraces southern gospel-rock, Chuck Berry and the Rolling Stones. Miss Turner's raw, rending vocal delivery, in which the voice often seems to tear itself apart without ever actually disintegrating, also encompasses the red-hot mama, blues-meets-rock-and-roll tradition embodied by Janis Joplin. And in pure show business terms her provocative self-presentation - with heavily teased dark gold wig, prancing the stage in spiked high heels, and her friendly rock-and-roll sneer - have served as an inspiration for male rockers like Mick Jagger and Rod Stewart. In a very real sense, she did more to invent them than vice versa.
Preoccupied with window-shopping, I was almost late for the Opera Ball. Organized by the Hotel Baur au Lac and held in the baroque Zurich Opera House every year, it is the city's poshest social affair. Although I covered the event as a member of the media, it is open to anyone who pays the $640 price of admission. I watched with other reporters as the Zurich elite -- bank directors and corporate officers and their wives, decked out in black tie and classy evening wear -- arrived. And then came Tina Turner. Her hair was tinged with blond, her lipstick firetruck red. As usual, she looked terrific for a woman in her sixties.
Cornering the pop diva, I asked why she had chosen this unlikely place as her home. "It's fresh, always beautiful, and I can walk down the street without being bothered by anyone," she said with characteristic bluntness. "And people here are life-loving."
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