Rock legend Tina Turner, the growling songstress who electrified audiences for many years, has died on the age of 83, an announcement mentioned Wednesday.
“It’s with nice disappointment that we announce the passing of Tina Turner,” learn the assertion on the official Instagram web page of the eight-time Grammy winner.
“Together with her music and her boundless ardour for all times, she enchanted hundreds of thousands of followers all over the world and impressed the celebrities of tomorrow.
“Immediately we are saying goodbye to a pricey pal who leaves us all her best work: her music. All our heartfelt compassion goes out to her household.
“Tina, we are going to miss you dearly.”
Turner, who had been residing in Switzerland in her ultimate years, first encountered fame with husband Ike Turner.
The pair recorded a lot of hits collectively all through the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies, in a musical partnership through which she was clearly the extra proficient.
After their troubled and violent marriage collapsed — she fled in 1976 mid-tour — Tina Turner cast a wildly profitable solo profession.
The next many years gifted the world immediately recognizable hits like “What’s Love Obtained to Do With It?”, “Personal Dancer” and the anthemic “The Finest”.
Her “We Don’t Want One other Hero” featured on the soundtrack to “Mad Max Past Thunderdome,” the 1985 post-apocalyptic thriller starring Mel Gibson.
A decade later she oozed her means by means of “Goldeneye,” becoming a member of the choose ranks of artists who’ve sung on the James Bond franchise.
© Agence France-Presse
