2023-05-25 20:37:37
The singer, nicknamed the “Queen of Rock’n’Roll”, was considered one of the greatest artists of all time. She died in Switzerland, near Zurich, where she lived with her second husband Erwin Bach. A look back at the tormented career of a fighter.
The American singer, naturalized Swiss, Tina Turner, died at the age of 83, according to a press release posted on her official Instagram account. “It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Tina Turner,” the statement said, adding that the singer was leaving “behind her her greatest work: her music”.
Dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, Tina Turner was considered one of the greatest artists of all time, known for such hits as What’s Love Got to Do with It et (Simply) The Best.
Phenomenon
Born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee in 1939, she took her retirement in Switzerland, in his house in Küsnacht, near Zurich, with her second husband, Erwin Bach, a former record company executive. The artist died peacefully after a long illness, her agent said.
Tina Turner began her career in the 1950s, during the early years of rock and roll, before becoming a real phenomenon.
Short denim jacket, mini-skirt, stilettos and spiky blonde hair, Tina Turner single-handedly embodied 1980s style in the music video for her song What’s Love Got to Do with It, where she wanders the streets of New York. The legend was able to adapt perfectly to the pop landscape of the 1980s. She won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s.
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Revenge of a Superstar
This tidy life with our Swiss neighbors – she had left the stage for more than ten years – is the opposite of the years she went through with Ike Turner. By revealing her talent as a singer, this pioneer of rock had made her a submissive creature by dint of mistreatment and humiliation.
The superstar hadn’t been shy about speaking publicly about the abuse she suffered from her former husband, guitarist Ike Turner, during their relationship in the 1960s and 1970s. She spoke of the violence, broken jaws , injuries for which she had gone to the emergency room on several occasions.
No one gave much of their skin after their separation. “When I left Ike, I had some change in my pocket, a fuel card for my car, and no plans. But I was happier then than I had been in years. I loved this independence. I began to believe in myself, and to convince myself that everything was going to be fine for me. And… it was !“, confided Tina Turner to the Figaro.
More than she even hoped: she became a superstar in the mid-1980s, imposing her charisma and lioness look on stages around the world. In 1986, she published her first autobiography, Me, Tinaadapted for the cinema under the title Tina. It was also about resilience in the second self-portrait she published in 2019, Tina Turner, autobiography.
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In this book, the singer evoked her career, the progress of which was more successful abroad than in the United States. “It seemed to me that in Europe there was less discrimination and more enthusiasm. The other artists welcomed me there with open arms, my audience was constantly growing, and my admirers were incredibly loyal and loyal. I will never forget the night I had to cancel a concert in Sweden due to a sinus infection. Instead of being angry, the audience was so worried about my health that people clapped and shouted to show their attention. I received postcards, letters and even flowers that evening “, she remembered.
When asked what was her best musical moment, Tina Turner evoked that day when she interpreted Tonight with David Bowie for a music video. “I felt that we were both crossed by the same magicshe would say. An identical magic was born when she put her guts in Private Dancer. This album contains the king single of his entire career, What’s Love got to do with it. This song, which won him the Grammy for best recording of the year in 1985, written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle, should have originally been interpreted by Cliff Richard but due to a misunderstanding it passed through several hands before being released. fall to Tina Turner. The hit joined the pantheon of world music by obtaining a Grammy Hall of Fame in 2012. “For me, singing is telling stories, she confessed. It brings out the actress in me. And I love songs that have that ability.
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“An Incredible Triumph”
The actress took over in 1995. We remember that the tigress had become a ruthless boss of an outpost in a nuclear wasteland, alongside Mel Gibson, in the third installment of the franchise, Mad Max. After the box of Mad Maxshe is also chosen for the credits of Golden Eye, James Bond with Pierce Brosnan in the title role. In her silver dress slit over her nervously curved legs, the 50-year-old brought her vocal power to the score of Bono and The Edge, of the group U2, in the pure tradition of the 007 theme.
The singer claimed to have had more lives than a cat… “After Ike, a second life came to me. A rather intense second act, made of adventure, success and love», she explained, without concealing the darkest moments. Like his health issues. Victim of a stroke, she had overcome a first cancer and suffered from kidney failure. And especially the suicide of his son, Craig, at 59 years old.
«Tina’s story is not that of a victim, but that of an incredible triumph.wrote about her, singer Janet Jackson in a number of Rolling Stone which placed Turner 63rd on a list of the top 100 artists of all time. ‘She’s turned into an international sensation – a stylish powerhouse’added Janet Jackson for whom Tina Turner was simply the best…
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