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Tina Turner
Nov. 26, 1938
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Artistfacts:
| Tina was the top grossing act of the year 2000. Her farewell tour made $80 Million in 95 performances. |
| The 1993 movie What's Love Got To Do With It is about her life. Angela Bassett stars as Turner. |
| Her real name is Anna Mae Bullock. Ike Turner convinced her to change it. |
| She married bandleader Ike Turner in 1958. She divorced him in 1978 after years of abuse. |
| She had 4 children with Ike. She took nothing in the divorce and supported them on her own, briefly living on food stamps. |
| She sang with Mick Jagger at Live Aid in 1985. In the '60s, she and Ike toured with The Rolling Stones in the US. |
| In 1985, she acted with Mel Gibson in the movie Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, and also sang the theme song. Other movies she's appeared in: The Big T.N.T. Show (1966), Gimme Shelter (1970), It's Your Thing (1970), Tommy (1975), Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978) and Last Action Hero (1993). |
| Tina's hair fell out in 1960 after she tried to bleach it - she's been wearing wigs ever since. |
| Her nose was surgically reconstructed after it was repeatedly broken by Ike. (thanks, Brad Wind - Miami, FL, for above 2) |
| She was a cheerleader and played on the girl's basketball team while in high school. (thanks, Chantrelle - Hattiesburg, MS) |
| Turner has been a practicing Buddhist since 1975. |
| She is part Navajo and part Cherokee. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France, for above 2) |
| At the Grammy awards in 2008, Tina was the subject of a tribute where she performed "Proud Mary" with Beyonce, who introduced Tina Turner as "The Queen." The introduction didn't go over well with Aretha Franklin, who is known as the "Queen Of Soul." (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France) |
| She had the highest grossing tour in the year 2000. (thanks, Bertrand - Paris, France) |
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Comments:
| To Annabelle in OR
The name Tina Turner was the only thing that her lawyer advised her to legally keep. I think that Ike did contest the request for her to keep his last name but he lost. - Theodora, detroit, MI |
| I LOVE TINA TURNER!!!!!!!!!!SHE GIVES THE MOST AMOUNT OF ENERGY THAN ANY OTHER ARTIST I KNOW - Rachel, Waterford, MI |
| Paul in Detroit, why would Ike take the name Tina Turner away from her? I thought she liked that name! And also, I think Tina Turner sounds a lot prettier than Anna May Bullock. It rolls off the tongue more smoothly. And on top of that, Tina Turner is a name that sounds like it would make you more popular! I mean, who would be popular with a name like Anna May Bullock? Not Me! - Annabelle, Eugene, OR |
| When she and Ike divorced in 1978, he tried to take her stage name "Tina Turner," away from her. - Paul, Detroit, MI |
| Just prior to her U.S. comeback in the mid-80s, Tina had a hit in Great Britain with the remake of Al Green's "Let's Stay Together." This song also appeared on Tina's Private Dancer LP. - Paul, Detroit, MI |
| At the time she hit #1 with "What's Love Got To Do With It," Tina was the oldest female singer to have a #1 hit song (I think she was 44). This record has since been broken by Grace Slick (as part of Starship) on "We Built This City" and later Cher with "Believe." - Paul, Detroit, MI |
| Mark Knopfler, from Dire Straits, wrote and produced her come back song Private Dancer. It was supposed to be a Dire Straits song, but it was never used. - Martijn, Arnhem, Netherlands |
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