Popular United States pop music singer, Tina Turner is dead.
It was reported reported that the legendary singer passed on at the age of 83 after a protracted illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.
She was known as the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’. ‘With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,’ her representatives said in a statement.
See key dates in the life of the pop icon:
– November 26, 1939: Born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee into a poor farming family. Develops an early love of singing at her church choir.
– 1956: Meets rhythm and blues group musician Ike Turner in St Louis, Missouri, and later joins his band Kings of Rhythm.
– 1960: Ike changes her name to Tina Turner and they form the musical duo the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Over the next 15 years, the couple will have 25 records on the charts.
– 1962: She marries Ike Turner in Tijuana, Mexico.
– 1978: The couple divorce.
– 1984: Releases first solo album, “Private Dancer”, which includes “What’s Love Got To Do With It”, Turner’s most successful single and winner of two of her eight Grammy Awards.
– 1985: Stars opposite Mel Gibson in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdrome” as the fearsome community ruler in a post-apocalyptic world.
– 1986: Bestselling autobiography “I, Tina” reveals bombshell details about domestic abuse during her marriage to Ike Turner.
– 1993: Release of “What’s Love Got To Do With It” based on Turner’s life, starring Angela Bassett as Tina Turner.
– 2013: Becomes a Swiss citizen and marries German music producer Erwin Bach.
– 2017: Undergoes a kidney transplant. Bach was the donor.
– 2018: Death of her eldest son Craig from an apparent suicide aged 59.
2022: Death of her son Ronnie of complications from colon cancer aged 62. Turner has two other children.
AFP
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