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ALBUMProud Mary (Acapella) - SingleTina Turner
Albums by Tina Turner
ALBUMTwenty Four SevenTina Turner
ALBUMWildest DreamsTina Turner
ALBUMWhat's Love Got to Do with It (30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)Tina Turner
ALBUMForeign Affair (Deluxe Edition)Tina Turner
ALBUMBreak Every Rule (2022 Remaster)Tina Turner
ALBUMMad Max Beyond Thunderdome (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)Tina Turner & Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
ALBUMPrivate Dancer (Remastered)Tina Turner
ALBUMRoughTina Turner
ALBUMLove ExplosionTina Turner
ALBUMAcid QueenTina Turner
Tina Turner's Popular Music Videos
What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner
Private Dancer
Tina Turner
What's Love Got to Do with It
Kygo & Tina Turner
The Best
Tina Turner
Get Back (The Speek) [Live]
Paul McCartney & Tina Turner
What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner
Tearing Us Apart (The Speek) [Live]
Eric Clapton & Tina Turner
River Deep, Mountain High (The Speek)
Ike & Tina Turner
We Don't Need Another Hero (Live)
Tina Turner
What You Get Is What You See
Tina Turner
Artist Playlists
Tina Turner Essentials
Tina Turner wasn't just a powerful vocalist—she was an icon.
Tina Turner Video Essentials
Inspired by Tina Turner
Tina Turner: Sing
Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Artist Biography
Pouring pain and experience and raw sensuality into performances that mixed rock, soul, and blues, singer-songwriter Tina Turner was a wellspring of uncontainable energy. Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939, Turner sang in church choirs before featuring in The Kings of Rhythm, an R&B band led by her future husband Ike Turner—from whom she would suffer more than a decade of abuse. She channeled that emotion to turn Creedence Clearwater Revival’s gently rolling “Proud Mary” into a tear-the-roof-off anthem and imbue 1973’s semi-autobiographical “Nutbush City Limits” with a self-aware wit. Her show-stealing turn as The Acid Queen in 1975’s film version of The Who’s Tommy only further highlighted her range and hinted at the chart-topping force she’d become. After divorcing Ike and reclaiming her independence in the late ’70s, Turner became a watchword for liberation and self-empowerment at a time when there wasn’t much vocabulary for it. She reinvented herself as a wounded-but-wise R&B singer, chronicling the often devastating complexities of romance with the intimacy and strength of a survivor—particularly on her 1984 pop breakthrough, Private Dancer. In anyone else’s hands, songs such as “Better Be Good to Me” and "What’s Love Got to Do With It” are breezy FM-radio tunes; in Turner's, they're real-life examinations of how destructive emotions can be—a perspective you can still hear in the toughness and vulnerability of Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige. That grace and confidence carried on through the ensuing decades of her work, whether as the singer of 1989's triumphant “The Best,” the actor in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the author of the frank memoir I, Tina, a style icon, a hero to victims of domestic abuse, or an adherent of Buddhism, whose teachings fueled her creatively and spiritually since the ’70s. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2005, she said, “I want my gift to become a gift for others. We're caught in a stagnant belief system passed on to us from our parents and what’s been given from the churches. I believe there’s another truth. Dancing and singing is all good—but the ultimate gift is to change people’s minds.” Turner died in May 2023 at the age of 83.
Hometown
Brownsville, TN, United States
Genre
R&B/Soul