TRIBUTE TO THE ROCK & ROLL ICON

TINA TURNER

Two days after the death of Tina Turner at the age of 83, a report specifies the causes of her death.

As reported by the Daily Mail, the singer died of "natural causes" at her home in Switzerland .

The "queen of rock & roll", however, suffered from many health problems.

The press release announcing her death also indicated that she had died “peacefully at her home in Küsnacht in Switzerland following a long illness”.

"I believed that my body was an untouchable and indestructible bastion."

In 2013, three weeks after her marriage to the Swiss, Erwin Bach, Tina Turner suffered a stroke.

This attack had made the interpreter of What's Love Got to Do With It lose the ability to walk and it took him several months before managing to move normally. "I put myself in great danger".

Three years after her stroke, Tina Turner was also diagnosed with bowel cancer in 2016.

She had to undergo a kidney transplant in April 2017 thanks to the donation of her husband, Erwin Bach.

On March 9, 2023, on the occasion of World Kidney Day, the singer also confided on social networks that she had put herself "in great danger" by not taking enough interest in her health problems. kidneys.

"I didn't realize that my high blood pressure should have been treated with conventional medicine," she said.

And to add: "I put myself in great danger by refusing to see reality in the face: I needed daily drug treatment for life. For too long, I believed that my body was a bastion untouchable and indestructible."

The tumultuous beginnings of the duo The Ike and Tina Turner Revue

Tina Turner, whose real name is Anna Mae Bullock, was born on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee.

Daughter of a worker and a foreman on a farm, she comes from a modest background.

Raised by her grandmother, she spent her childhood in Tennessee with her sister. As a child, she began to sing in the church choir. As a teenager, she joined her mother in Missouri.

Discovered at the age of 18 in Saint-Louis by the rocker Ike Turner, she became one of his choristers and took part in his concerts. In 1960, he asked her to record a duet, A fool in love, which met with great success.

The young woman changes her first name and is now called Tina.

Meanwhile, she marries Ike Turner, and their duo, The Ike and Tina Turner Revue, will experience a succession of hits; River deep, Mountain high, Come together, I want to take you higher…

Indispensable, the duo went on tours during the 60s.

But the aggressive temperament of Ike Turner and his drug addictions plunge the couple adrift in the mid-1970s.

"My relationship with Ike was doomed the day he realized that I was going to become his livelihood," she explained in 2021 to the American channel HBO.

The relationship quickly turns into a nightmare, Ike Turner is violent and beats the singer daily.

She will eventually file for divorce in the late 1970s.

After their separation in 1976, Tina Turner moved away from the stage for a while. In 1978, she returned with her first solo album, Rough, but public reception was mixed.

In 1983, she released Let's stay together in England, which quickly rose to the top of the charts and relaunched her career.

She made her real comeback in 1984 with the release of the album Private Dancer, carried by the hit What's love got to do with it.

Success and love with Erwin Bach

In 1985, she met Erwin Bach, a manager of the EMI record company, in Europe. "We met at Cologne airport, and her manager Roger Davies asked me to pick her up," said Erwin Bach in the documentary "Tina".

At the time, the man was 16 years younger and the singer immediately fell in love with him:

"That was crazy, I thought:

"But where does it come from?"

My heart was beating fast and my hands were shaking," she confided in "Tina."

Tina Turner lives a beautiful and long love story.

The singer then experienced a resurgence of success with two other albums Break Every Rule (1986) and Foreign Affair (1989).

She multiplies artistic collaborations and sings in duet with Bryan Adams (It's only love) and Rod Stewart (It takes two).

She also recorded the soundtrack for the film Jours de Tonnerre (Break through the Barrier).

During the 90s, she released new albums Wildest dreams (1996) and Twenty four Seven (1997).

Since the beginning of the 2000s, Tina Turner has gradually moved away from the front of the stage.

However, it publishes best of; All the best (2004) and Tina! Her greatest hits (2008).

In October 2008, she returned to the stage with a tour after several years of absence. In 2009, Turner retired after completing his Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour.

At the same time, the singer made some forays into the cinema; Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Last Action Hero (1993).

In 2000, she made an appearance in the series Ally McBeal. A biopic titled What's Love Got to Do with It is adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story.

Her consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title "Queen of Rock & Roll" ("Queen of Rock & Roll"). In addition to rock, she has also distinguished herself in R'n'B, soul, dance and pop.

She was the first black artist and the first woman to grace the cover of Rolling Stone magazine which listed her among the 100 greatest artists of all time and the 100 greatest singers of all time.

She is one of the most influential African-American singers of the 20th century with Diana Ross and Aretha Franklin.