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The Greatest Night in Pop

2024 · as Self (archive footage)

Moonage Daydream

2022 · as Self (archive footage)

TINA

2021 · as Self

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1985 · as Aunty Entity

Tommy

1975 · as The Acid Queen

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter and actress. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. She was noted for her "swagger, sensuality, powerful gravelly vocals and unstoppable energy." A resident of Küsnacht, Switzerland, from 1994 until her death, Turner relinquished her American citizenship after obtaining Swiss citizenship in 2013. Turner began her career with her ex-husband Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm in 1956. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, "Boxtop", in 1958. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the hit single "A Fool in Love". The Ike & Tina Turner Revue became "one of the most formidable live acts in history." The duo released hits such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep – Mountain High", "Proud Mary", and "Nutbush City Limits", before disbanding in 1976. In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history." Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. At 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight", and "GoldenEye". She embarked on the Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–1988), which became the top-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). In 1986, she published her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, which was adapted for the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. In 2018, she became the subject of Tina, a jukebox musical.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Notable quotes

“As the first Black woman to fill a football stadium. That is a wish of mine. It hasn't been done. Janis Joplin did it for the White girls. I want to do it for the Blacks.”
— Her answer to the question how she would like to be remembered, "TINA TURNER Tells How She Made It To The Top Alone", Jet (1 April 1985), pp. 63–64, online at Google Books
“Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.”
— Her answer to a question about her first musical influences, Gerri Hershey, "Tina Turner", Rolling Stone (November 13, 1997), as quoted in Mark Bego, Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003), p. 18
“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments – I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life.”
— Tammy Jacks, "Tina Turner's Top Beauty Secrets", Woman & Home (22 July 2016) [originally appeared in the March 2009 issue as an interview by Louise Gannon]
“My wildest dream was to have this kind of success – to pack a stadium, to walk out on a stage and look at the crowd, knowing that they came to see me. What a wonderful turn my life had taken. After so much unhappiness, after thinking that love of any kind would never be a part of my story, love was all around me.”
— pp. 195–96
“It hurts to have to remember those times, but at a certain stage forgiveness takes over. Forgiving means not to hold on. You let it go, because it only hurts you. Not forgiving, you suffer, 'cause you think about it over and over again. And for what? I had an abusive life, there's no other way to tell the story, it's a reality, it's a truth. That's what you've got. So you have to accept it.”
— Speaking of her marriage to Ike Turner in the documentary film Tina (2021), as quoted in John Amar, "TINA: HBO Tells the Story of an Icon, One Last Time", Houston Press (23 April 2021)
“In the beginning, we all depend on attention and affection of our mother or other caring people. Without love and care, we cannot survive. Without loving action, we miss the meaning of life.”
— "Love Within" on Children – With Children United in Prayer (2014)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Notable quotes

“As the first Black woman to fill a football stadium. That is a wish of mine. It hasn't been done. Janis Joplin did it for the White girls. I want to do it for the Blacks.”
— Her answer to the question how she would like to be remembered, "TINA TURNER Tells How She Made It To The Top Alone", Jet (1 April 1985), pp. 63–64, online at Google Books
“Well, it was a church person in the early days, Mahalia Jackson. And Rosetta Tharpe. These spiritual, very strong voices. I only knew that they were figures in the black race, recognizable and respected. But I must admit, I've always covered the songs of males. I haven't followed up on women or listened to that much women's music.”
— Her answer to a question about her first musical influences, Gerri Hershey, "Tina Turner", Rolling Stone (November 13, 1997), as quoted in Mark Bego, Tina Turner: Break Every Rule (Taylor Trade Publishing, 2003), p. 18
“My greatest beauty secret is being happy with myself. I don't use special creams or treatments – I'll use a little bit of everything. It's a mistake to think you are what you put on yourself. I believe that a lot of how you look is to do with how you feel about yourself and your life.”
— Tammy Jacks, "Tina Turner's Top Beauty Secrets", Woman & Home (22 July 2016) [originally appeared in the March 2009 issue as an interview by Louise Gannon]
“My wildest dream was to have this kind of success – to pack a stadium, to walk out on a stage and look at the crowd, knowing that they came to see me. What a wonderful turn my life had taken. After so much unhappiness, after thinking that love of any kind would never be a part of my story, love was all around me.”
— pp. 195–96
“It hurts to have to remember those times, but at a certain stage forgiveness takes over. Forgiving means not to hold on. You let it go, because it only hurts you. Not forgiving, you suffer, 'cause you think about it over and over again. And for what? I had an abusive life, there's no other way to tell the story, it's a reality, it's a truth. That's what you've got. So you have to accept it.”
— Speaking of her marriage to Ike Turner in the documentary film Tina (2021), as quoted in John Amar, "TINA: HBO Tells the Story of an Icon, One Last Time", Houston Press (23 April 2021)
“In the beginning, we all depend on attention and affection of our mother or other caring people. Without love and care, we cannot survive. Without loving action, we miss the meaning of life.”
— "Love Within" on Children – With Children United in Prayer (2014)

Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.

Overview

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter and actress. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. She was noted for her "swagger, sensuality, powerful gravelly vocals and unstoppable energy." A resident of Küsnacht, Switzerland, from 1994 until her death, Turner relinquished her American citizenship after obtaining Swiss citizenship in 2013. Turner began her career with her ex-husband Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm in 1956. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, "Boxtop", in 1958. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the hit single "A Fool in Love". The Ike & Tina Turner Revue became "one of the most formidable live acts in history." The duo released hits such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep – Mountain High", "Proud Mary", and "Nutbush City Limits", before disbanding in 1976. In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history." Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. At 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her chart success continued with "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight", and "GoldenEye". She embarked on the Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–1988), which became the top-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). In 1986, she published her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, which was adapted for the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. In 2018, she became the subject of Tina, a jukebox musical.

From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0).

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter and actress. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. She was noted for her "swagger, sensuality, powerful gravelly vocals and unstoppable energy." A resident of Küsnacht, Switzerland, from 1994 until her death, Turner relinquished her American citizenship after obtaining Swiss citizenship in 2013.

🎬 Filmography

Screen catalogue →

The Greatest Night in Pop

2024 · as Self (archive footage)

Moonage Daydream

2022 · as Self (archive footage)

TINA

2021 · as Self

Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome

1985 · as Aunty Entity

Tommy

1975 · as The Acid Queen

Tina Turner across IJR

Ask Genius by OpenServe about Tina Turner Create in Studio Build a game Watch videos

Where does Tina Turner rank?

Music

Best-Selling Music Artists of All Time by Certified Record Sales

100 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order

Music

Greatest Musical Comebacks Ever

16 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order

Music

Best Female Singers of the 80s

18 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order

Music

Greatest Female Vocalists Ever

20 candidates · 0 votes · vote on the order