Tina Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and B次元官网网址�70s and survived her horrifying marriage to triumph in middle age with the chart-topping B次元官网网址淲hatB次元官网网址檚 Love Got to Do With It,B次元官网网址� has died at 83.
Turner died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in K眉snacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. She became a Swiss citizen a decade ago.
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Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off. She sold more than 150 million records worldwide, won 11 Grammys, was voted along with Ike into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 (and on her own in 2021) and was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005, with Beyonc茅 and Oprah Winfrey among those praising her. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.
Hillel Italie, The Associated Press
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