Remembering Tina Turner: The Queen of Rock ‘n Roll Passes Away at 83

She’s dead Tina Turner. The singer was 83 years old, her spokesperson announced. This is the announcement: “Tina Turner, the queen of rock’n roll, passed away peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.” The White House commented on the artist’s death: “Incredibly sad news, it is a huge loss for all who loved her”.

Among his achievements, (Simply) the best e Nutbush City limitsand the others together with the husband Ike Turner, with whom he has collaborated on several albums. The explosion of his solo career took place in the eighties, with songs that marked an era such as We don’t need another herosoundtrack by Mad Maxor the beautiful Private Dancer, written by Mark Knopfler and which will bring her four Grammys. Great soul voice with an always expressive and never forced scratch and an instantly recognizable power, Tina Turner she managed to get back up after the end of the devastating relationship with Ike, which had left her in financial and psychophysical ruin. And she is reborn as the phoenix, as David Bowie saw her, after she had returned to fly again rising from her destruction. She becomes the Acid Queen in the rock opera film version of The Who Tommy, in which she introduces the protagonist to lysergic travel. After recovering her name, which Ike had taken away from her by depositing it in his own name as a registered trademark, waiting for Tina Turner on her journey was a new life, under the spotlights, after the dark and the violence of the years previous.

As Turnerreal name Anna Mae Bullock, becomes an international superstar at 40. She has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 11 Grammys, was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Ike in 1991 (and alone in 2021), and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005. She has spanned the soul, rhythm and blues and pop rock with a natural talent expressed in records but above all on stage, in an artistic renaissance parallel to the personal one.

In addition to original songs, he has made high-level covers such as Proud Mary of the RACs e Let’s stay together Of Al Green. Even in the most pop expressions, Tina Turner she has never lost the caliber of a great artist. Her life didn’t spare her other pains: the stroke before her and the discovery of cancer, and the suicide of her son Craig. But it’s a life that has also become a film, a Broadway musical and an Hbo documentary in 2021, the one with which she took leave of her audience. That on the farewell day she greets her with thousands of posts and tweets between ordinary people and artists.