American-born and naturalized Swiss singer, dancer, actress and author, Tina Turner, widely known as the ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ has died at the age of 83.
The ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ crooner died after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.
She had suffered ill health in recent years, being diagnosed with intestinal cancer in 2016 and having a kidney transplant in 2017.
Her publicist, Bernard Doherty, in a statement on Wednesday night, said: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”
Turner was Born in Anna Mae Bullock on Nov. 26, 1939, grew up in Nutbush, Tennessee, a rural and unincorporated area in Haywood County chronicled in her song “Nutbush City Limits.” According to Turner, her family were “well-to-do farmers” who lived well off the business of sharecropping. Still, Turner and her older sister Ruby Aillene dealt with abandonment issues when their parents left to work elsewhere.
“My mother and father didn’t love each other, so they were always fighting,” Turner recalled in a 1986 Rolling Stone interview. Her mother first left when Tina was 10 to live in St. Louis; her father left three years later. Turner relocated to Brownsville, Tennessee, to live with her grandmother.
Tina Turner became famous as part of the Ike and Tina Turner duo in the 70s before embarking on a successful solo career, which is one of the most successful of any female performer in history.
The late Queen of Rock ‘N’ Roll and is survived by three children.
