Tina Turner

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", Turner's vocal prowess, dynamic voice and electrifying stage presence helped to break racial gender barriers in rock music. She is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.

Turner rose to prominence in the 1960s as the lead vocalist of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner, known for their explosive live performances with the Ikettes and Kings of Rhythm. After years of marital abuse, she left in 1976 and embarked on a solo career. She made a comeback with her multi-platinum fifth solo album ''Private Dancer'' (1984), whose single "What's Love Got to Do with It" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her only number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Her worldwide chart success continued with "Let's Stay Together", "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "It's Only Love", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Lose You", "I Don't Wanna Fight" and "GoldenEye".

Turner's Break Every Rule World Tour became the highest-grossing tour by a female artist of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). Her success as a live performer continued with the Wildest Dreams Tour, the second highest-grossing tour by a female artist of the 1990s, and the Twenty Four Seven Tour, the highest-grossing tour of 2000 in North America. In 2009, she retired from performing after completing the Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. As an actress, Turner appeared in the feature films ''Tommy'' (1975), ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985) and ''Last Action Hero'' (1993). Her life was dramatized in the biographical film ''What's Love Got to Do with It'' (1993), based on her autobiography ''I, Tina: My Life Story'' (1986). She was also the subject of the jukebox musical ''Tina'' (2018) and the documentary film ''Tina'' (2021).

Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, which include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. ''Rolling Stone'' ranked her among the greatest artists and greatest singers of all time. She was the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of ''Rolling Stone'', the first female black artist to win an MTV Award and the first solo artist with UK Top 40 singles across seven decades. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: with Ike Turner in 1991, and as a solo artist in 2021. She was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Women of the Year award. Provided by Wikipedia