Turner won Female Pop Vocal Performance, Record of the Year and Female Rock Vocalist.īy then, Turner had been free from her marriage to guitarist Ike Turner for a decade.
27, 1985 file photo, Tina Turner, left, and Lionel Richie pose with their awards at the Grammy Awards show in Los Angeles. The decade saw her land a dozen songs on the Top 40, including "Typical Male," "The Best," "Private Dancer" and "Better Be Good to Me." Her 1988 show in Rio de Janeiro drew 180,000 people, which remains one of the largest concert audiences for any single performer.įILE - In this Feb. Sometimes nicknamed the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," Turner won six of her eight Grammy Awards in the 1980s. With her taste for musical experimentation and bluntly worded ballads, Turner gelled perfectly with a 1980s pop landscape in which music fans increasingly valued electronically produced sounds and scorned hippie-era idealism. In the video for her chart-topping song "What's Love Got to Do with It," in which she called love a "second-hand emotion," Turner epitomized 1980s style as she strutted through New York City streets with her spiky blond hair, wearing a cropped jean jacket, mini skirt and stiletto heels. Turner began her career in the 1950s during the early years of rock ’n’ roll and evolved into an MTV phenomenon. She died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, her representative said.
Tina Turner, the American-born singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83.
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