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Tina Turner

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", she broke both racial and gender barriers in rock music and became a prominent figure in popular culture. Known for her vocal prowess and stage presence, Turner is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of over 100 million records worldwide.

Turner rose to prominence in the 1960s as the lead vocalist of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner, known for their explosive live performances with the Ikettes and Kings of Rhythm. After enduring years of marital abuse, she ended her personal and professional relationship with Ike Turner in the 1970s and embarked on a solo career. Following the 1983 international hit "Let's Stay Together", she made a comeback with her multi-Platinum fifth solo album ''Private Dancer'' (1984), whose single "What's Love Got to Do with It" won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her only number-one hit on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100. Her worldwide chart success continued with the Top 10 singles "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", and "I Don't Wanna Fight".

Turner's Break Every Rule World Tour became the highest-grossing tour by a female artist of the 1980s and set a ''Guinness World Record'' for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). Her success as a live performer continued with the Wildest Dreams Tour, the first tour by a woman to earn $100 million, and the Twenty Four Seven Tour, the highest-grossing tour of 2000. In 2009, she retired from performing after completing the Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. As an actress, Turner appeared in the feature films ''Tommy'' (1975), ''Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome'' (1985) and ''Last Action Hero'' (1993). Her life was dramatized in the biographical 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 the documentary film ''Tina'' (2021).

Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, including 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 appear on the cover of ''Rolling Stone'' and was the first female black artist to win an MTV Award. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with Ike Turner in 1991 and was later inducted as a solo artist in 2021. Turner was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors. In 2013, Turner relinquished her U.S. citizenship and became a citizen of Switzerland. She resided there until her death in Küsnacht in 2023. Provided by Wikipedia