Queen of rock and roll, American and Swiss singer Tina Turner has died at the age of 83. This was reported on the artist’s page on Facebook*.
By information Deadline, Turner died after a long illness at her home in Küsnacht near Zurich.
“With her, the world loses a musical legend and role model,” her spokesperson said in a statement.
The singer was born on November 26, 1939 as Anna May Bullock in the small town of Natbush in the US state of Tennessee. She first appeared on stage at the age of 18, becoming the lead singer of Ike Turner’s band Kings of Rhythm. In 1962, the couple got married, after which Anna changed her name to Tina.
In 1976, the singer left her husband after another beating, taking her two sons and two stepsons with her. Turner lived with the musician for 16 years. Then the artist began to practice Buddhism and took up solo performances. Tina Turner’s musical career spanned almost 60 years, and the peak of her popularity came in the 80s.
The singer is the winner of eight Grammy awards. For her temperament and stage expressiveness, she was awarded the title “Queen of Rock and Roll”. Rolling Stone magazine appointed Turner is one of the greatest singers of our time. His most famous songs are The Best, Proud Mary, Private Dancer and What’s Love Got to Do With It.
In July 2013, Turner married music producer Erwin Bach after a 27-year relationship with him. Three weeks after the wedding, the singer endured had a stroke and had to learn to walk again.
In 2016, Turner was diagnosed with bowel cancer. For treatment, she chose homeopathic remedies, which led to kidney damage and then kidney failure. In 2017 she transplanted husband’s kidney. Despite this, she faced side effects as her body tried to reject the new organ.
In 2018, the singer buried Craig’s oldest son. He committed suicide at the age of 59 at his home in California.
As of December 2022, Turner’s youngest son, Ronnie deceased in the street. While waiting for an ambulance, eyewitnesses performed artificial respiration on the man, but the efforts were unsuccessful. Later, the American media writing that the man died of colon cancer. At the time of his death, Ronnie also suffered from atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, a buildup of cholesterol plaques on the walls of arteries that interferes with normal blood flow.
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