Tina Turner
Tina Turner, married Tina Bach, born Anna Mae Bullock (b. 26 November 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee; d. 24 May 2023 in Küsnacht near Zürich, Switzerland), was an Afroamerican singer and actor. She became a naturalized Swiss in January 2013 and renounced her US-American citizenship in October 2013. Having sold over 200 million records worldwide, she was one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She had a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame as well as on the St. Louis Walk of Fame and was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, with her first husband Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (5 November 1931 – 12 December 2007) in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She retired from music in 2009.
Family
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Anna Mae was the youngest daughter of Sharecropper Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife Zelma Priscilla (née Currie). She had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, a songwriter. All of Bullock's children, including Anna Mae, picked cotton to support the family.
Bullock began dating the saxophonist Raymond Hill. After Turner became pregnant during her senior year of high school, she moved in with Hill, who lived with Ike Turner. Their son Raymond Craig was born in August 1958 (suicide in 2018). In that year, Ike Turner became her teacher, songwriter and lover. After the birth of their son Ronald „Ronnie“ Renelle in October 1960 (d. 2022), they moved to Los Angeles in 1962 and married in Tijuana. She later revealed in I, Tina that Ike was abusive and promiscuous throughout their marriage, which led to her suicide attempt in 1968 by overdosing on Valium pills.
In 1985, Tina Turner met the German music executive Erwin Bach (b. 24 January 1956 in Köln) at the Düsseldorf Airport (West Germany), fell in love instantly ("love at first sight", as she told Oprah Winfrey during an interview in 2013 ) and they both began a relationship. Bach has been involved in producing albums for David Bowie, Pet Shop Boys and Queen. He supported Radiohead, Pink Floyd and Paul McCartney with his expertise. In 1986, Turner moved to Cologne with him, and from 1994 they both lived together in Switzerland. Since 1998, they lived in the Villa Algonquin at Lake Zurich. The couple had another residence in Villefranche-sur-Mer on the Côte d'Azur. The wedding only followed in 2013. But their honeymoon period was to be short-lived, as Turner suffered a stroke just three weeks after they wed.
- Their 16-year age difference and different cultural backgrounds were not barriers to their bond. Both first met when Bach was asked to pick them up from an airport. She later said: "He had the prettiest face, it's hard to describe. He looked so good. My heart was beating fast and my hands were shaking. He was just so different, so relaxed, so pleasant, so unpretentious.” After the singer had previously experienced violent violence in her marriage to Ike Turner, a deep bond with Bach developed, which gave the musician great strength until her death. Erwin Bach was by Turner's side when she found out about her serious cancer in 2016 and also when she suffered a stroke in 2009. He donated a kidney to her when her kidneys failed, saving her life. As her manager and producer, he supported her in important decisions and helped her preserve her musical legacy.[2]
In her book My Love Story: A Memoir, Atria Books (2018), Tina Bach detailed her second chance at love with Erwin Bach — and how it literally saved her life. She also learned German, but her studies were somewhat hampered after her stroke.[3]
Health
After her stroke in 2013, she he learned to walk again, but was dealt another blow just a few years later. In 2016, she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer. Turner opted for homeopathic remedies for her high blood pressure. This untreated high blood pressure resulted in damage to her kidneys and eventual kidney failure. Her chances of receiving a kidney were low, and she was urged to start dialysis. She considered Euthanasia and signed up to be a member of "Exit", but at her moment of deepest crisis, Bach made the ultimate offering: he volunteered to donate a kidney. “Erwin always radiated confidence, optimism and joie de vivre,” she said. “With his help, I tried to keep calm.” Turner had kidney transplant surgery on 7 April 2017 and was largely a success. The resulting symptoms, such as dizziness, forgetfulness, anxiety and the occasional bout of insane diarrhea, had made life a challenge at times. But with Bach by her side, she continued to persevere.[4]
Studio albums
- Tina Turns the Country On! (1974)
- Acid Queen (1975)
- Rough (1978)
- Love Explosion (1979)
- Private Dancer (1984)
- Break Every Rule (1986)
- Foreign Affair (1989)
- Wildest Dreams (1996)
- Twenty Four Seven (1999)
Filmography
- 1966 The Big T.N.T. Show Herself
- 1970 It's Your Thing Herself
- 1970 Gimme Shelter Herself
- 1971 Soul to Soul Herself
- 1971 Taking Off Herself
- 1971 Good Vibrations from Central Park Herself
- 1975 Tommy The Acid Queen
- 1975 Ann-Margret Olsson Herself
- 1975 Poiret est à vous Herself
- 1978 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band Our Guests at Heartland
- 1982 Chuck Berry: Live at the Roxy with Tina Turner Herself
- 1985 Mad Max – Beyond Thunderdome Aunty Entity (with Mel Gibson)
- Won (1986) – NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
- 1993 What's Love Got to Do with it Herself
- Singing voice for Angela Bassett, also archive footage
- 1993 Tina Turner: Girl From Nutbush Herself
- 1993 Last Action Hero (with Arnold Schwarzenegger) The Mayor
- 2012 Ike & Tina on the Road: 1971–72 Herself
- 2021 Tina Herself
Books
- I, Tina: My Life Story (1986)
- My Love Story: A Memoir, Atria Books (2018)
- Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good, Atria Books (2020)
- Tina Turner: That's My Life
External links
- Tina Turner (discography)
- Tina Turner channel at YouTube
