1. In 1984, Tina launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history", with her multi-platinum album Private Dancer.
122 Facts About Tina Turner
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Tina Turner continued her success as a live performer with Wildest Dreams Tour, the second highest-grossing female tour of the 1990s, and Twenty Four Seven Tour, the highest-grossing tour of the year in North America.
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Outside of music, Tina Turner acted in the films Tommy, Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Last Action Hero.
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Tina Turner received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions.
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Tina Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St Louis Walk of Fame.
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Tina Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021.
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Tina Turner was a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Women of the Year award.
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Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26,1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
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Tina Turner was the youngest daughter of Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife Zelma Priscilla.
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Tina Turner was the first cousin once removed of bluesman Eugene Bridges.
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Tina Turner stated in her autobiography I, Tina that she felt her parents did not love her and that she was not wanted.
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Tina Turner 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, while Vela survived the car crash.
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Tina Turner first saw Ike Turner perform with his band the Kings of Rhythm at the Club Manhattan in East St Louis.
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Tina Turner asked Turner to let her sing in his band despite the fact that few women had ever sung with him.
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Tina Turner sang the rest of the night and became a featured vocalist with his band.
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Tina Turner is credited as a vocalist on the record alongside Ike and fellow Kings of Rhythm singer Carlson Oliver.
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In 1960, Ike Tina Turner wrote "A Fool in Love" for singer Art Lassiter.
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Since Tina Turner had already paid for the studio time, Bullock suggested that she sing the lead.
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Tina Turner decided to use Bullock to record a demo with the intention of erasing her vocals and adding Lassiter's at a later date.
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Murray convinced Tina Turner to make Bullock "the star of the show".
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Tina Turner was inspired by Sheena, Queen of the Jungle and Nyoka the Jungle Girl to create her stage persona.
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Ike Tina Turner put the entire revue through a rigorous touring schedule across the United States, performing 90 days straight in venues around the country.
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In November 1967, Tina Turner became the first female artist and the first black artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine.
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Tina Turner's fashion evolved from formal dresses to minidresses and revealing outfits.
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Tina Turner wrote nine out of the ten tracks on their 1972 album Feel Good.
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The duo's 1973 hit single "Nutbush City Limits", penned by Tina Turner, reached No 1 in Austria, No 4 in the UK, and the top 5 in several other countries.
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That year, Tina Turner filmed the rock opera Tommy in London.
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Tina Turner played the Acid Queen, a drug-addicted prostitute; her performance was critically acclaimed.
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Shortly after filming wrapped, Tina Turner appeared on Ann-Margret's TV special.
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Shortly after arriving, Tina Turner fled from Ike with only 36 cents and a Mobil card to the nearby Ramada Inn across the freeway.
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Tina Turner filed for divorce on July 27 and it was finalized on March 29,1978.
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Tina Turner resumed touring to pay off her debts, with finances given to her by United Artists executive Mike Stewart.
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Tina Turner headlined a series of cabaret shows at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas and took her act to smaller venues in the United States.
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In 1978, Tina Turner released her third solo album, Rough, on United Artists with distribution in North America and Europe on EMI.
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In 1979, Australian manager Roger Davies agreed to manage Tina Turner after seeing her perform at the Fairmont Hotel in San Francisco.
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In early 1979, Tina Turner worked in Italy as a regular performer on the Rete 1 TV series Luna Park, hosted by Pippo Baudo and Heather Parisi.
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Tina Turner later regretted the decision, stating that she was "naive about the politics in South Africa" at the time.
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In October 1981, Rod Stewart attended Tina Turner's show at the Ritz in New York City and invited her to perform "Hot Legs" with him on Saturday Night Live.
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In November, Tina Turner opened three shows for the Rolling Stones during their 1981 American Tour.
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Tina Turner performed in March 1982 in the Willem Ruis show, which resulted in the hit "Shame, Shame, Shame".
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Tina Turner filmed a music video for "Ball of Confusion" that aired on the fledgling music video channel MTV, becoming one of the first black American artists to gain airtime on the channel.
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Also in 1982, Tina Turner appeared as a special guest on Chuck Berry's television special performed at The Roxy in West Hollywood.
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Until 1983, Tina Turner was considered a nostalgia act, performing mostly at hotel ballrooms and clubs in the United States.
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Tina Turner had two weeks to record her Private Dancer album, which was released in May 1984.
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On September 1,1984, Tina Turner achieved her first and only No 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 with "What's Love Got to Do with It".
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Tina 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".
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Tina Turner's success continued when she traveled to Australia to star opposite Mel Gibson in the 1985 post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.
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Tina Turner later received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress for her role in the film.
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Tina Turner recorded two songs for the film, "We Don't Need Another Hero " and "One of the Living"; both became hits, with the latter winning her a Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance.
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In July 1985, Tina Turner performed at Live Aid alongside Mick Jagger.
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Tina Turner released a duet, "It's Only Love", with Bryan Adams.
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In 1986, Tina 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 January 1988, Tina Turner performed in front of approximately 180,000 at Maracana Stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, setting a Guinness World Record at the time for the largest paying concert attendance for a solo artist.
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In October 1991 Tina Turner released her first greatest hits compilation Simply the Best, which sold seven million copies worldwide.
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Ike Turner was incarcerated at the time and Tina Turner did not attend.
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Tina Turner stated through her publicist that she was taking a leave of absence following her tour and she felt "emotionally unequipped to return to the US and respond to the night of celebration in the manner she would want".
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In 1995, Tina Turner returned to the studio, releasing "GoldenEye", which was written by Bono and the Edge of U2 for the James Bond film GoldenEye.
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In 1996 Tina Turner released the Wildest Dreams album, accompanied by her "Wildest Dreams Tour".
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In September 1999, before celebrating her 60th birthday, Tina Turner released the dance-infused song "When the Heartache Is Over" as the leading single from her tenth and final solo album, Twenty Four Seven.
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At a July 2000 concert in Zurich, Switzerland, Tina Turner announced that she would retire at the end of the tour.
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In November 2004, Tina Turner released All the Best, which debuted at No 2 on the Billboard 200 in 2005, her highest-charting album in the United States.
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In December 2005, Turner was recognized by the Kennedy Center Honors at the John F Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC, and was elected to join an elite group of entertainers.
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In February 2006, Tina Turner released "Teach Me Again", a duet single with Italian singer-songwriter Elisa that was recorded for the anthology film All the Invisible Children.
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Tina Turner made a public comeback in February 2008 at the Grammy Awards, where she performed alongside Beyonce.
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In support of the tour, Tina Turner released a greatest hits compilation.
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In 2009, Tina Turner co-founded a global music foundation, Beyond Foundation, with Swiss Christian musician Regula Curti and Swiss Tibetan Buddhist Dechen Shak-Dagsay.
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Tina Turner co-released four albums of spiritual or uplifting music released through projects with Beyond: Buddhist and Christian Prayers, Children, Love Within, and Awakening.
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Tina Turner promoted the album by performing on TV shows in Germany and Switzerland.
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In December 2016 Turner announced that she had been working on Tina, a musical based on her life story, in collaboration with Phyllida Lloyd and Stage Entertainment.
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Tina Turner received the 2018 Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and her second memoir, My Love Story, was released in October 2018.
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In 2020, Tina Turner released her third book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good.
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Tina Turner co-wrote the book with American author Taro Gold and Swiss singer Regula Curti.
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In 2021, Turner appeared in the documentary film Tina directed by Dan Lindsay and T J Martin.
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Later that month, Tina Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist, accepting her award via satellite from her home near Zurich, Switzerland.
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Alline was dating the band's drummer Eugene Washington and Tina Turner began dating the saxophonist Raymond Hill.
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Hill returned to his hometown of Clarksdale before their son Craig was born in August 1958, leaving Tina Turner to become a single parent.
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Tina Turner likened her early relationship with Ike Tina Turner to that of a "brother and sister from another lifetime".
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Tina Turner recalled that this incident was the first time he "instilled fear" in her, but she decided to stay with him because she "really did care about him".
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Tina Turner later revealed in I, Tina that Ike was abusive and promiscuous throughout their marriage, which led to her suicide attempt in 1968 by overdosing on Valium pills.
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Tina Turner abruptly left Ike after they got into a bloody fight on their way to the Dallas Statler Hilton on July 1,1976.
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Tina Turner fled with only 36 cents and a Mobil credit card in her pocket to the nearby Ramada Inn across the freeway.
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Tina Turner retained songwriter royalties from songs she had written, but Ike got the publishing royalties for his compositions and hers.
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Tina Turner kept her two Jaguars, furs, jewelry, and her stage name.
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Tina Turner gave Ike her share of their Bolic Sound recording studio, publishing companies, and real estate, and he kept his four cars.
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Ike Tina Turner stated on several occasions that he was never officially married to Tina Turner because he was legally married to another woman at the time of their ceremony.
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Tina Turner stated that her birth name was Martha Nell Bullock.
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Tina Turner signed her legal name as Martha Nell Turner on multiple contracts.
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Tina Turner asked for one more tour with me, and I said, 'No, absolutely not.
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In 1986, Tina Turner met German music executive Erwin Bach, who was sent by her European record label to greet Tina Turner at Dusseldorf Airport.
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Tina Turner adopted two of Ike Turner's children, raising them as her own.
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Tina Turner was 18 years of age when she gave birth to her eldest son.
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Ike Tina Turner adopted Raymond Craig Hill, and changed his name to Craig Raymond Tina Turner.
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Tina Turner toured with former Ikette Randi Love as Sweet Randi Love and the Love Thang Band.
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In 1989, Tina Turner told TV Week that "she's still there for the boys", but there were reports of Tina Turner's estrangement from her sons in the years before her death.
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Tina Turner credited the Liturgy of Nichiren Daishonin and Soka Gakkai International for her introduction to spiritual knowledge.
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Tina Turner later stated in her 2020 spiritual memoir Happiness Becomes You that her son, Ronnie Tina Turner, first suggested she might benefit from chanting.
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Tina Turner practiced Buddhism with her neighborhood Soka Gakkai International chanting group.
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Tina Turner met with the 14th Dalai Lama, in Einsiedeln, Switzerland, on August 2,2005.
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Tina Turner met with Swiss-Tibetan Buddhist singer Dechen Shak-Dagsay and in 2009 co-created a spiritual music project with Shak-Dagsay and Swiss singer Regula Curti called Beyond.
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Tina Turner began living at Chateau Algonquin in Kusnacht on the shore of Lake Zurich in 1994.
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Tina Turner had previously owned property in Cologne, London, and Los Angeles, and a villa on the French Riviera named Anna Fleur.
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In 2013, Tina Turner applied for Swiss citizenship, stating she would renounce her citizenship in the United States.
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Tina Turner signed the paperwork to relinquish her American citizenship at the US embassy in Bern on October 24,2013.
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Tina Turner's wealth was estimated at 225million Swiss francs in 2022 by the Swiss business magazine Bilanz.
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Tina Turner revealed in her 2018 memoir My Love Story that she had multiple life-threatening illnesses.
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Tina Turner had had high blood pressure since 1978, which remained mostly untreated, and resulted in damage to her kidneys and eventual kidney failure.
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Tina Turner attempted to treat her health problems with homeopathy, which worsened her condition.
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Tina Turner signed up with an organization that facilitates assisted suicide, a procedure which is legal in Switzerland, becoming a member of Exit International.
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Tina Turner accepted his donation and had kidney transplantation surgery on April 7,2017.
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Tina Turner openly discussed her feeling of shame after discovering that she had dyslexia.
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On May 24,2023, Tina Turner died at her home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, aged 83, following years of illness.
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Tina Turner received tributes by British model Naomi Campbell, as well as film and television figures such as Oprah Winfrey, Angela Bassett, Jenifer Lewis, Forest Whitaker, and Bette Midler and theater producer Joop van den Ende.
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Journalist Kurt Loder asserted that Tina Turner's voice combined "the emotional force of the great blues singers with a sheer, wallpaper-peeling power that seemed made to order for the age of amplification".
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Tina Turner merged sound and movement at a critical turning point in rock history, navigating and reflecting back the technological innovations of a new pop-music era in the 60s and 70s.
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Tina Turner catapulted herself to the forefront of a musical revolution that had long marginalized and overlooked the pioneering contributions of African American women and then remade herself again at an age when most pop musicians were hitting the oldies circuit.
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Tina Turner previously held a Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience for a solo performer.
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Tina Turner was ranked as one of the most successful female singles artist in German chart history.
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Tina Turner won Grammys as a member of USA for Africa and as a performer at the 1986 Prince's trust concert.
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Tina Turner received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 1986 and a star on the St Louis Walk of Fame in 1991.
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Gloria Gaynor said Tina Turner "paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white".
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Tina Turner was praised by Mariah Carey and Oprah Winfrey as a "survivor" who overcame years of domestic abuse.
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Tina Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a duo with Ike Turner in 1991.