Always Tina The Tribute to Tina Turner Clark Center For The Performing Arts
Always Tina appearing with Never A Dull Moment, Tribute to Rod Stewart and Start Me Up Tribute to The Rolling Stones. September 26!
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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, actress, and author. Dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll“, her vocal prowess, raspy voice, and electrifying stage presence broke the racial barrier in rock music. Turner rose to prominence in 1960 as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner, known for their explosive live performances with the Ikettes and Kings of Rhythm.[6] Their tumultuous marriage led to a disbanding in 1976, and she embarked on a successful solo career, becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time, with estimated sales of 100 million records.
In 1984, Turner launched “one of the greatest comebacks in music history”,[7] with her multi-platinum album Private Dancer. Her single “What’s Love Got to Do with It” won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. Turner’s worldwide chart success continued with “Let’s Stay Together“, “Better Be Good to Me“, “Private Dancer“, “We Don’t Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)“, “It’s Only Love“, “Typical Male“, “The Best“, “I Don’t Wanna Lose You“, “I Don’t Wanna Fight“, and “GoldenEye“.
Turner’s Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–88) became the highest-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audiencein a concert (180,000).[8] Her success as a live performer continued with Wildest Dreams Tour (1996–97), the second highest-grossing female tour of the 1990s, and Twenty Four Seven Tour (2000), the highest-grossing tour of the year in North America.[9] In 2009, she retired from performing after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. As an actress, Turner appeared in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985) and Last Action Hero (1993). Her life was dramatized in the film What’s Love Got to Do with It (1993), based on her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story(1986). She was also the subject of the jukebox musical Tina (2018) and documentary film Tina (2021).
Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, which include a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. Rolling Stone ranked her among the greatest artists and greatest singers of all time. She was the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone,[10] the first female black artist to win an MTV Award,[11] and the first solo artist with UK top 40 singles across seven decades. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Women of the Year award.[12]
Early life
Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock[b][1][2] on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee.[13][14][15][16] She was the youngest daughter of Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife Zelma Priscilla (née Currie).[13][17] The family lived in the rural unincorporated community of Nutbush, Tennessee, where Bullock’s father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180; she later recalled picking cotton with her family at an early age.[18][19]
Bullock was African American, but she believed she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry until she participated in the PBS series African American Lives 2with Henry Louis Gates Jr.[20][21] Gates shared her genealogical DNA test estimates and traced her family timeline.[22]
Bullock had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, a songwriter.[23] She was the first cousin once removed of bluesman Eugene Bridges.[24] As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II.[19] Bullock went to stay with her strict, religious paternal grandparents, Alex and Roxanna Bullock, who were deacon and deaconess at the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church.[19][25] After the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville.[19] Two years later, the family returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community, where Bullock attended Flagg Grove Elementary School from first through eighth grade.[26][27]
As a young girl, Bullock enjoyed singing and acting, and she often performed in the streets for change so she could go to the movies.[28] She sang in the church choir at Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church.[29][30] In 1950, when she was 11, her mother Zelma left without warning, seeking freedom from her abusive relationship with Floyd by relocating to St. Louis.[31] Two years after her mother left the family, her father married another woman and moved to Detroit. Bullock and her sisters were sent to live with their maternal grandmother, Georgeanna Currie, in Brownsville, Tennessee.[31] She stated in her autobiography I, Tina that she felt her parents did not love her and that she was not wanted.[32] Zelma had planned to leave Floyd but stayed once she became pregnant.[33] Bullock recalled: “She was a very young woman who didn’t want another kid.”[33]
As a teenager, Bullock worked as a domestic worker for the Henderson family in Ripley, Tennessee.[34] She was at the Henderson house when she was notified that her half-sister Evelyn had died in a car crash alongside her cousins Margaret Currie and Vela Evans, however Evans survived the car crash with injuries.[35][36] A self-professed tomboy, Bullock joined both the cheerleading squad and the female basketball team at Carver High School in Brownsville, and “socialized every chance she got”.[18][31] When Bullock was 16, her grandmother died, so she went to live with her mother in St. Louis. She graduated from Sumner High School in 1958.[37] After high school, Bullock worked as a nurse’s aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital.[38]
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