Iconic singer and actress Tina Turner has passed away at the age of 83. Turner died peacefully in her home in Switzerland following a battle with a long illness.
Turner once held the Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience for a solo performer and said only a few weeks ago to The Guardian that she hopes to be remembered as the Queen of Rock and Roll.
In her early 20s, she found fame with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, a live act with her former husband singing songs like “River Deep, Mountain High” and “Nutbush City Limits”. Enduring brutal abuse throughout the marriage, the pair divorced in 1978.
By the 1980s, she became a music juggernaut with notable songs including “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “The Best,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” “What You Get Is What You See,” “I Don’t Wanna Fight” and the theme song for James Bond film “Goldeneye”.
She also had on-screen roles in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome,” “Tommy” and “Last Action Hero” along with being the subject of the biopic “What’s Love Got to Do with It” which starred Angela Bassett as Turner.
In her time, she won twelve Grammys, was the first black artist and the first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone, had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Turner is survived by her husband, Erwin Bach, and two children.
SourceL The Daily Mail
