The music world continues to be moved The death of Tina Turner, the legendary American singer, at 83 years old. The death of the queen of rock, as she was nicknamed, shocked her fans and raised the question: what did this huge figure die of.
According to her rep, who was the first to confirm Tina’s departure, the singer died at her home in Ksnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. after a long illness.
Up to there, the official version of the reasons for his farewell. But what is this long illness that his representative spoke about? There was no confirmation yet, so speculation focused on the latter Known history of health problems that had passed through the star. His last ten years had been filled with worries.
In 2013, the singer suffered a hitalso known as ACV, just three weeks after marrying Erwin Bach, her now husband.
After that fact, the recovery was long and even those closest to him say that he had to learn to walk again. Tina was already far from music by now and she had settled in Switzerland, a country from which she adopted her nationality, also abandoning the American one.
Three years after the stroke, Turner was diagnosed bowel cancer, an illness that once again left her battered. And as if that weren’t enough, in 2017, as she revealed in her autobiography “Tina Turner: My Love Story”, she must have received a kidney transplant from her husband.
The death of two of his children
In 2018, just after the series of health problems began, Tina Turner received news that would hit her very hard: her firstborn, Craig, committed suicide at the age of 59.
Last December, another pain: Ronnie’s death, the youngest of his children, a cancer patient, in California. “Ronnie, you left the world too soon. It is with pain that I close my eyes and think of you, my dear son,” Tina said goodbye.
In his beginnings as an artist he had to suffer an abusive marriage
Basin born Anna-Mae Bullock November 26, 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee, the daughter of a couple who worked on cotton plantations. Subsequently transferred to Saint Louis, they experienced all the sufferings of those who suffered racial discrimination.
But it was in St. Louis, in one of the nightclubs, the Manhattan, where he met the teenager Anna-Mae – who was already singing in the church choir – that he remained one of the pioneers of world rock: Ike Turnerwho in 1951 composed his iconic song Rocket 88, considered by many specialists as the first rock and roll song in history.
“I was born in a windowless basement, confined to the ‘colored’ women’s maternity ward of the county hospital. My mother, Zelma, was loving to my sister, but she was different from me. I knew she never had me beloved. It’s a heavy load for a little girl,” she confessed My love story.
He also described how she was abandoned and ended up living with her grandmother. This blow was added to the grief of losing him, when his cousin Margaret, his closest confidante within the family, died in a road accident.
When her grandmother also died, she began “a new life” in Saint Louis: “When I was 17 I went to the Manhattan Club, a noisy and smoky music venue, where I met two men who would play a very important role in my life. ” One of them will be a saxophonist and the love story was short-lived. The other was named Ike Tina Turner, whose song Rocket 88 had given him his first glimmers of fame.
Ike and Tina Turner would form a successful artistic duo in the 1960s, with her as a symbol of soul and rhythm and blues, but even a volcanic marriage. “Violent, abusive, violent, exploitative, chauvinist and controlling” were just some of the terms with which Tina Turner described her ex-husband.
That marriage ended on July 4, 1976 –“The Day of My Freedom”, the singer cried- and Ike’s drift was through drugs. His works included an album that became a cult work (River Deep Mountain High, produced by Phil Spector and featuring photos by Dennis Hopper.
As Tina Turner described her ex-partner’s abuse and mistreatment, he tried to justify himself in the strangest way in his own memoirs: land in a fist without thinking.But I never hit him.
In 1968, when her relationship with her husband was tormented, Tina tried to commit suicide taking fifty sleeping pills. So it was her team who took her to the hospital to save her life.
Ike passed away in 2007, after multiple disputes and illnesses.
Source: Clarin
