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Tina Turner
At TrueColorsRadio sings:Total Likes Total Dislikes
1. Something Beautiful Remains21626
2. When The Heartache Is Over18013AVG
3. I Don't Wanna Fight17617AVG
4. Private Dancer17119
5. We Don't Need Another Hero16114AVG
6. Two People15718
7. What's Love Got To Do With It15417
8. You Know Who (Is Doing You Know What)1488Gritsouk
9. I Don't Wanna Lose You1488
10. Foreign Affair13811AVG
11. Look Me In The Heart1369
12. Let's Stay Together1189
13. Way Of The World1169
14. I Want You Near Me1117Mik3
15. The Best1099Natali
16. Typical Male1018Mik3
17. Something Beautiful Remains (Remix)1005Gritsouk
18. In Your Wildest Dreams8115Gritsouk
19. Paradise Is Here798Mik3
20. It's Only Love445
21. Be Tender With Me Baby414
22. Help!378
23. Steamy Windows284Gritsouk
Tina Turner

Original name
Anna Mae Bullock
Date of birth
26.11.1939 (82)
Place of birth
Nutbush, Tennessee
Total songs: 23
Likes: 2750
Dislikes: 251

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Awards
Turner was listed on Rolling Stone's list "The Immortals — The Greatest Artists of All Time".
Turner is a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, and three of her recordings, "River Deep - Mountain High" (1999), "Proud Mary" (2003) and "What's Love Got To Do With It" (2012) are in the Grammy Hall of Fame.
Turner has won 8 Grammy Awards.


Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, an unincorporated area in Haywood County, Tennessee on November 26, 1939 to Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock at Poindexter Farm Hwy 180, where Floyd worked as an overseer of the sharecropping Poindexter farm. Tina Turner started out her music career in the mid-1950s as a featured singer with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm, first recording in 1958 under the name Little Ann with the song, "Box Top". Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in the early 1960s with Ike as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Tina and Ike married in Tijuana in 1962. Success followed with a string of notable hits including "River Deep – Mountain High" (1966) and "Proud Mary" (1971).

Following her divorce from Ike Turner in 1976, she rebuilt her career by constantly performing, eventually launching another series of hits starting in 1983 with the single "Let's Stay Together" and the 1984 release of her fifth solo album Private Dancer. "What's Love Got to Do with It," the most popular single from the album, would later serve as the title of a biographical film about Turner that was adapted from her autobiography. In addition to her music career, Turner has also experienced success in movies, including a role in the 1975 rock musical, Tommy and a starring role in the 1985 Mel Gibson action flick, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, later appearing in a cameo role in the 1993 film, Last Action Hero.

In 1958, eighteen-year-old Tina became a mother for the first time, giving birth to her son Craig in August of that year. Craig was the offspring of Tina's and Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill. The news of her out-of-wedlock pregnancy and her performances with the Kings of Rhythm caused her mother Zelma to kick her out of her house. Following Hill's injury from a wrestling match with a member of the Kings of Rhythm in which he broke his ankle, Hill was forced to return to his hometown of Clarksdale and never returned back. Shortly after that, Tina moved into Ike Turner's house in East St. Louis. Within a couple of years, Tina was pregnant with Ike's child, and their son, Ronald, was born in October 1960. After marrying Turner in 1962, she became the stepmother of Ike's sons, Ike, Jr. (b. 1958) and Michael (b. 1959). Turner was pregnant again with Ike's child in 1968, but after discovering that her friend, Ikette member Ann Thomas, was also carrying Ike's baby, she quietly had her baby aborted.

Bryan Adams, who toured with her on the Private Dancer Tour, praised Turner's live performances, saying, "I never saw Tina walk through a performance, she always put on a great show, and was gracious and grateful to her audience." In 2002, Tennessee State Route 19 between Brownsville and Nutbush was named "Tina Turner Highway".

The note prepared by Natali Chapliuk