Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter, and actress.
Widely referred to as the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer.
Turner began her career with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, Boxtop, in 1958.
In 1960, she was introduced as Tina Turner with the hit duet single A Fool in Love.
The duo Ike & Tina Turner became one of the most formidable live acts in history. They released hits such as It's Gonna Work Out Fine, River Deep-Mountain High, Proud Mary, and Nutbush City Limits before disbanding in 1976.
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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 No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100.
At age 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.
During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then-Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer. Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Last Action Hero (1993).
In 1993, What's Love Got to Do with It, a biopic adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released.
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In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour, which is one of the highest-grossing tours of all time.
In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical Tina.
Having sold over 100 million records worldwide, Turner is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She has received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She is the first black artist and first female to be on the cover of Rolling Stone.
Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time.
Turner is also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and Women of the Year award.
Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee, the youngest daughter of Zelma Priscilla (née Currie) and Floyd Richard Bullock. The family lived in the nearby rural unincorporated community of Nutbush, Tennessee, where her father worked as an overseer of the share croppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180; she later recalled picking cotton with her family at an early age.
When she participated in the PBS documentary African American Lives 2 with Dr. Henry Louis Gates, he shared her Genealogical DNA test estimates, which were predominantly African, approximately 33% European, and only 1% Native American. Turner had previously believed that she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry.
Bullock and her sister began to frequent nightclubs in St. Louis and East St. Louis. She first saw Ike Turner perform with his band the Kings of Rhythm at the Manhattan Club in East St. Louis.
Bullock's was introduced to the public as Tina Turner with the single A Fool In Love in July 1960.
In 1976 and 1977, Turner earned income by appearing on TV shows such as The Hollywood Squares, Donny & Marie, The Sonny & Cher Show and The Brady Bunch Hour.
Until 1983, Turner was considered a nostalgia act, performing mostly at hotel ballrooms and clubs in the United States. During her second stint at the Ritz, she signed with Capitol Records in 1983. In November 1983, she released her cover of Al Green's Let's Stay Together which was produced by B.E.F. It reached several European charts, including No. 6 in the UK.
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On September 1, 1984, Turner achieved her first and only No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with What's Love Got to Do with It. The follow-up singles Better Be Good to Me and Private Dancer were both U.S. top 10 hits.
Turner culminated her comeback when she won three Grammys at the 27th Annual Grammy Awards, including the Grammy Award for Record of the Year for What's Love Got to Do with It.
In February 1985, she embarked on her second world tour to support the Private Dancer album. One show, filmed at Birmingham, England's NEC Arena, was later released on home video. During this time, she also contributed vocals to the USA for Africa benefit song We Are the World.
In 1986, Turner released her sixth solo album, Break Every Rule, which reached No. 1 in four countries and sold over five million copies worldwide within its first year of release.
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In 1991, Ike & Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
In November 2004, Turner released All the Best, which debuted at No. 2 on the Billboard 200 albums chart in 2005, her highest charting album in the United States.
In December 2005, Turner was recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and was elected to join an elite group of entertainers.
Turner received the 2018 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and her second memoir, My Love Story, was released in October 2018.
In October 2021, Turner sold her music rights to BMG Rights Management for $50 million. Later that month, Turner was absent from her induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist.
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from the beginning to the end,
because I believed in something inside of me.
Tina Turner
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