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Tina Turner Has Passed Away
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lpetrich
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Tina Turner - I remember liking her a lot in past decades.She was born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 in Brownsville TN, near the western end of that state, and she grew up in nearby Nutbush TN.
She joined Ike Turner's band the Kings of Rhythm and she did well enough for Ike to headline her as Tina Turner, forming Ike and Tina Turner. The two were married, though Ike became abusive to her, and she fled in 1976, crossing a freeway with only $0.36 and a credit card. She got divorced, and she started a solo career, keeping her married name for name recognition.
She had solo success in the 1980's with her album "Private Dancer" with its titular song and "What's Love Got to Do with It?". She also appeared as Auntie Entity in "Mad Max 2: Beyond Thunderdome", singing "We Don't Need Another Hero".
She had a relationship with German record executive Erwin Bach, and the two eventually became married in Switzerland, where she moved and spent the rest of her life. She renounced US citizenship and got Swiss citizenship. Late in her life, she had kidney trouble, and EB donated a kidney to her.
Raised a Baptist, in 1973, she became a Nichiren Buddhist -
Nichiren Buddhism - chanting "Namu Myōhō Renge Kyō" more or less "Devotion to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra" or "Glory to the Dharma of the Lotus Sutra" in Japanese.
Tharmas
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I'm surprised that none of the bios I've read of her since her death mention her first movie role - the Acid Queen in the Who's "Tommy." I believe that's the only actual movie I saw her in.
hurtinbuckaroo
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The Washington Post obit included that. It also mentioned that she turned down a role in The Color Purple because she’d experienced abusive men and didn’t need to be in a movie about them.