Tina Turner – The Queen of Rock

Tina Turner is a famous American-born recording artist, actress, dancer and author. Turner has had a career spanning 5 decades throughout which, she has remained an icon, earned widespread fame and recognition and won multiple awards. Often referred to as the ‘Queen of Rock’, Turner is regarded as one of the world’s most happening and trendsetting female rock artists.

In the half a century of her career in the entertainment industry, Turner has been a recipient of eleven Grammy awards across diverse categories and has also been inducted in both, the ‘Grammy Hall of Fame’ as well as the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’. Turner has proved to be a huge commercial success, selling more than a 100 million copies of her music albums worldwide. She gave up her American Citizenship after she became a Swiss national in 2013.

Early Life and Education

Turner was born as Anna Mae Bullock on 26th November 1939 to Floyd Richard Bullock and Floyd Richard Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee. During the years of the Second World War, Turner lived with her grandparents in Knoxville, Tennessee. Turner is of African-American descent, and has 33% European and 1% Native American ancestry. She has an older sister named Ruby Ailene.

Post the war, Turner was reunited with her family who returned to Nutbush. They lived in the Flagg Grove Community where she was a student at the Flagg Grove Elementary School. As a young girl, Turner used to sing in the Church Choir. Her mother left her abusive father and at age 13 she and her sister were abandoned by her father after he remarried. She lived with the grandmother and attended Carver High School. She later graduated from Missouri’s Summer High School.

Career

While she was earlier credited as “Little Ann”, she was introduced as Tina Turner in 1960 for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue which proved immensely successful. The duo gave many hits together which included “A Fool in Love”, “Proud Mary”, “River Deep – Mountain High”, and “Nutbush City Limits”, which Turner wrote herself. Her abusive relationship with Ike Turner resulted in a period of few lows in her career, which she resurrected with a string of hits in 1980’s when she made her comeback, releasing two solo albums during that phase,”Let’s Stay Together” and ‘Private Dancer’. The song titled “What’s Love Got to Do with It” became the biggest hit of her career and won her three Grammy awards. She delivered one hit after another through the 80’s and 90’s with albums like ‘Foreign Affair’ and ‘Break Every Rule’.

Turner also proved to be a successful actress and featured in films like ‘Tommy’, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome’ and a guest appearance in ‘Last Action Hero’. In December 2016, Turner announced her new project ‘Tina’, which is an autobiographical musical that she is working on in collaboration with Stage Entertainment and Phyllida Lloyd.

Tina Turner – Young Pictures

Tina Turner – Homes

The 1.63 meter tall Turner apparently owns homes in three countries, France, Switzerland and England but lives in a villa ‘Anna Fleur’ near Nice on the French Riviera.

Personal Life

Tina Turner first dated Raymond Hill of the Kings of Rythm Band and had a son with him named Craig. On one occasion, Hill violently attacked her, which resulted in other band members, including Ike Turner coming to her defence. After ending her relationship with Hill, Turner lived-in with and later got married to Ike Turner in 1968. While they had one biological child together, a son named Ronald, Turner was stepmother to Ike’s four sons from a previous marriage. Their relationship later turned abusive and the couple got divorced in 1978. Turner met Erwin Bach, a German music executive in 1985 and after being in a relationship for 27 years, married him in July 2013 in Switzerland.

Tina’s eldest son Craig died due to an apparent suicide, aged 59.

Tina Turner – Net Worth

Turner has an estimated net worth of approximately $250 Million.