On 24 May 2023, the American singer and actress Tina Turner died in Küssnacht, Switzerland, at the age of 83.
Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on 26 November 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee.
With her then husband, she landed several hits in the 1960s as the rhythm-and-blues duo “Ike & Tina Turner”. After her divorce, she started a solo career in the 1980s with several world hits and became the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” with over 180 million records sold. To this day, she has an entry in the Guinness Book of Records for the largest concert performance by a female solo artist in 1988 at the Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro in front of 188,000 spectators. In the course of her career, Tina Turner received eight Grammy Awards. In 1991, the duo “Ike & Tina Turner” was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2021, she was also granted this honour as a solo artist.