  Tina was born Anna Mae Bullock
on November 26, 1939, in Tennessee. Tina
began singing professionally at age 16 in Ike
Turner's touring show. Within a few years,
Tina became the star of the show. Tina was
married to Ike Turner from 1958 to 1975, and
helped synthesize rock with soul music as Ike
& Tina Turner throughout the 60s
and early 70s. But by 1975, Tina's need for
success couldn't compete with the control and
abuse inflicted by Ike over the years, and
Tina left Ike, the marriage, and the music
legacy they had started together. After
divorcing Ike in 1978, Tina didn't resurface
successfully in the music scene until the
mid-80s. Tina appeared in the movie Tommy in 1975 as the Acid
Queen, but LPs released as a solo artist,
including Acid
Queen, Rough, and Love
Explosion did not do well. Tina had to
struggle from the bottom once again to prove
herself now as a solo artist. Tina has won a
total of 7 Grammy Awards (only 1 of which was
with Ike) and had sold millions of LPs and
concert tickets. There is a sense that we
know everything about Tina Turner because of
her autobiography and the movie about her
life. Yet, Tina reveals very little about her
private life today. The result has been a
persona of power and overcoming life's
setbacks and cruelties.
 Tina began making a comeback as
a solo artist first with the business
partnership with promoter Roger Davies and
then opening for the Rolling
Stones.
Tina signed with Capitol
Records.
Tina returns to the charts with
a Top 10 hit in England - the Al
Green cover of "Let's
Stay Together."
 # 9
Singles Artist of the Year
 Tina returned to the Top 40 as a
solo artist with "Let's
Stay Together" which eventually hit the
Top 20 in the U.S. and prepared radio for her
return.
Tina began touring as Lionel Richie's opening act.
The next single became her first
solo #1 hit and biggest hit to date: "What's Love Got To Do
With It."
With help from her manager Roger Davies, Tina
was able to find her sound and her audience -
her way.
The LP Private
Dancer sold millions of copies around
the world (with over 5 million sold in the
U.S.) and also contained the Top 10 hits
"Better Be Good To Me" and
"Private Dancer." Critical success
accompanied the commercial success.
 Tina hit the Top 40 with "What's Love Got To Do
With It."
Tina hit the Top 10 with "What's Love Got To Do
With It."
Private
Dancer was certified gold.
 Private
Dancer was certified platinum and the
single "What's Love Got To Do
With It"
was certified gold.
Tina hit #1 for 3 weeks with "What's Love Got To Do
With It."
 # 7
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina won 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Soul/R&B Female
Artist
and Favorite Soul/R&B Female Video Artist
and was nominated for Favorite Pop/Rock Single, Favorite Soul/R&B Single ("What's Love Got To Do
With It"),
and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Video Artist.
 Tina took part in USA
For Africa's "We Are The
World" session.
Private
Dancer was certified 3x platinum.
Tina won 3 Grammy
Awards for Record of the Year and Best Vocal Performance - Female ("What's Love Got To Do
With It")
and Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("Better Be Good To
Me"), and was nominated for Album of the Year (Private
Dancer) and Best R&B Vocal
Performance - Female ("Let's
Stay Together").
 Private
Dancer was certified 4x platinum.
Tina returned to the movies with
a prominent role in Mad
Max: Beyond Thunderdome, and released two
tracks from the movie: "We Don't Need
Another Hero" and "One Of The
Living."
Tina appeared at Live Aid with a
memorable reunion with Mick Jagger.
Tina was awarded with a star on
the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
Private
Dancer was certified 5x platinum.
Tina won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Female Video ("What's Love Got To Do
With It")
- the video for "Better Be Good To
Me" was nominated for Best Stage Performance Video and the video for
"Private Dancer" was nominated for Best Choreography.
Tina won a Best Actress award
from the NAACP for her performance in Mad
Max: Beyond Thunderdome.
 # 24
Singles Artist of the Year
 Tina teamed up with Bryan Adams for the rocking duet,
"It's Only Love" which hit the Top
10.
Tina's much anticipated
follow-up LP, Break
Every Rule, was released.
Tina had her second #1 hit with
"Typical Male" and then toured
world-wide to sell-out crowds.
Tina won an American Music
Award for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist.
Tina won a Grammy
Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("One Of The Living")
and was nominated for Best Vocal Performance - Female ("We Don't Need
Another Hero (Thunderdome)") and Best Rock Vocal Performance by a
Duo or Group ("It's Only Love"
with Bryan Adams).
Tina won a MTV Video Music
Award for Best Stage Performance Video ("It's Only
Love" with Bryan Adams) and was nominated for
Best Female Video ("We Don't Need
Another Hero (Thunderdome)").
Tina hit #1 with "Typical
Male."
Break
Every Rule was certified platinum.
Tina hit the Top 40 with "Two
People."
 # 59
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina was nominated for 2 American Music
Awards for Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist and Favorite
Soul/R&B Female Video Artist.
 Tina won a Grammy
Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("Back Where You
Started") and was nominated for Best Female Pop Vocal
Performance ("Typical Male").
As Break
Every Rule continued to top charts
worldwide, Tina embarked on a record-breaking
worldwide tour.
 Tina entered the Guinness
Book of Records when she performed in
front of the largest audience ever (182,000)
in Rio de Janeiro. Tina's touring was
captured on a live 2-LP set: Tina
Live In Europe.
Tina was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best
Rock Performance, Solo ("Better Be Good To
Me" (live)).
 # 89
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina inducted Phil Spector into
the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Tina won a Grammy
Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female (Tina: Live In Europe).
Tina released Foreign
Affair. The LP contained tracks such
as "The Best" and "Steamy
Windows"
but it was considered only a modest hit.
Tina hit the Top 40 with "The Best."
Foreign
Affair was certified gold.
Tina hit the Top 40 with"Steamy
Windows."
 # 172
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female (Foreign
Affair).
Stevie was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("Steamy
Windows").
 A greatest hits collection, Simply
The Best, was released.
Tina continued to find her
greatest success with occasional touring
around the globe, even though at least one
tour was meant to be a farewell tour.
Tina was inducted into the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame with Ike.
Tina could be heard on the Elton
John tribute LP Two
Rooms - Celebrating The Songs Of Elton John
& Bernie Taupin with her version of
"The Bitch Is Back."
 # 42
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Vocal
Performance - Female ("The Bitch Is
Back").
At the World Music Awards, Tina
was honored with the Outstanding Contribution
to Music Award.
 Tina's autobiography, I
Tina, was made into a hit movie, What's
Love Got To Do With It. Tina contributed old,
new and re-done tracks for the soundtrack and
was instrumental in making the movie true to
the facts.
The soundtrack to What's
Love Got To Do With It allowed Tina to return
to the Top 10 with "I Don't Wanna Fight."
Tina hit the Top 40 with "I Don't Wanna Fight."
Tina topped the Billboard Top
Adult Contemporary Singles chart for 7 weeks
with with "I Don't Wanna Fight."
What's
Love Got To Do With It was certified gold.
Tina hit the Top 40 with "Why Must We Wait Until
Tonight."
Tina was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best
Pop Vocal Performance - Female ("I Don't Wanna Fight").
 Tina released a box set of old
and new hits and unreleased material: Collected
Recordings - Sixties To Nineties.
Simply
The Best and What's
Love Got To Do With It were
certified platinum.
 # 188
Singles Artist of the Year
 # 206
Singles Artist of the Year
 Tina released Wildest
Dreams and again launched a world-wide
tour. The LP contained the hit "Missing
You" as well as the title track of a
James Bond movie released the previous year,
"Goldeneye."
 The Rock
'N Roll Hall Of Fame's
500 Songs That Shaped Rock And Roll includes includes
"River Deep Mountain High" (with Ike
Turner).
Tina performed on Saturday
Night Live.
According to Pollstar,
Tina had the 7th highest grossing tour of
1997 with her "Wildest Dreams Tour"
taking in over $24 million.
 Tina was nominated for a Grammy
Award Best Music Video, Long Form for
Live
In Amsterdam - Wildest Dreams Tour (with video
director, David Mallet).
Tina was ranked # 80 on VH-1's GREATEST ROCK 'N
ROLL ARTISTS POLL (and # 51 on Rock On The Net's
Poll)
 Tina could be heard on the
compilation, Elton
John And Tim Rice's Aida, with "Easy As
Life."
Tina could be seen on VH1 as
part of VH1
Divas Live '99.
VH1: 100
Greatest Artist of Rock & Roll ranks
Tina at # 2.
Tina received the Lifetime
Achievement award at the Black Music Awards
in Britain. Tina will also be touring in the
spring of 2000 and said of the tour:
"This will be my final big stadium rock
tour. I want to change my working habits...
smaller.. less is more - that kind of
thing."
The Advocate named Tina
as one of the '25 Coolest Women.'
 # 92
Singles Artist of the Year
Tina hit the Top 40 with "When
The Heartache Is Over."
 Twenty
Four Seven was released in the U.S.
Tina appeared on the TV show Ally
McBeal.
Tina started touring the U.S.
and indicated that this could be her last
major tour. Tina announced in the fall that
she'll be taking it easy now that she has
turned 60: "There comes a point where it
is just undignified to be a rock 'n roll
star... I don't want to be dragging myself on
stage in year out until someone else tells me
it is time to go. There are certain birthdays
that make you revalue your life."
Twenty
Four Seven was certified gold.
Tina made this year's listing of
People's "50 Most Beautiful
People."
Tina told the a crowd at a
Switzerland performance that she would retire
after her current tour. Her publicist said:
"Tina said she wants 'simply a rest'...
She wants to go out on top while she is at
her best. She doesn't want to become a faded
caricature of herself."
Tina gave what she's saying is
her last concert in Anaheim, California. She
ended the year as the top money-earner on the
concert circuit taking in over $80 million
for 95 concerts (according to Pollstar).
VH1: 100
Greatest Albums includes Private
Dancer at # 95.
Tina ranked #
6 on
VH1: 100
Sexiest Artists.
Rolling Stone:
50 Essential 'Woman In Rock' Albums includes Proud
Mary: The Best Of Ike & Tina Turner at # 11.
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