With a voice of astonishing power, Tina Turner evoked joy and pain

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Her music captures an unending vitality: her voice was an instrument of incredible precision combined with devastating power

very few living American singers whose work springs from a distant, lost past. Dolly Parton, a titan of country music, was born in a one-room cabin by Little Pigeon River in Tennessee. Tina Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, grew up in Nutbush, Tennessee, where her father oversaw sharecroppers; she had childhood memories of working in the cotton fields. Before she died on May 24th, she was a link to the forces that shaped the blues and country and rock’n’roll.

Though he was a great bandleader, Ike was an abusive partner. Ms Turner left him in 1976, fleeing the hotel the pair were staying in with 36 cents and little else. “I walked out without anything and had to make it on my own,” she said in 2017. “It was very difficult and dangerous because Ike was a violent person and at that point he was on drugs and very insecure. I had no money. I had no place to go.

 

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