Short Biography

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939) is an American singer-songwriter, dancer, and actress. She has won eight Grammy Awards. Turner`s consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title "The Queen of Rock & Roll." Besides rock music, she has also performed R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She was listed on Rolling Stone`s list The Immortals — The Greatest Artists of All Time. Turner is represented in the Grammy Hall of Fame with two of her singles inducted including "River Deep - Mountain High" (1999) and "Proud Mary" (2003).

On April 26, 2008, Turner announced at a taping of the "The Oprah Winfrey Show" at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas that she will begin another tour in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 1, 2008. Turner told Oprah Winfrey that the actress Sophia Loren convinced her to return to the stage.

Turner has been acknowledged as one of the world`s most popular and biggest-selling music artists of all time and is the most successful female rock artist of all time with record sales exceeding 180 million. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. To date, Turner has 7 Billboard top 10 singles, 16 US top ten R&B singles, and has 33 Top 40 hits in the UK. All of her albums since Private Dancer have been Top 10 UK hits.

Tina Turner has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer ever. Turner`s world tour Break Every Rule Tour had record breaking ticket sales, visited by over four million fans. Turner also beat out The Rolling Stones by touring Europe with 121 shows during her sold out Foreign Affair Tour in 1990. She ended up playing to four million people in just six months. Her 1996 Wildest Dreams Tour was performed to 3.5 million people over 250 dates through 2 years. Her most recent tour was 2000`s Twenty Four Seven Tour. It was the highest grossing tour of the year and is the 5th biggest grossing tour in America ever. The popular press has referred to Turner favorably as "the truest rock diva of all," "soul`s first real diva," "the most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music," and "one of soul music`s most incendiary performers.

Turner is the mother of two sons and adopted mother of Ike Turner`s two children from other relationships. After leaving Ike Turner in 1976 and divorcing him in 1978, Turner did not get into a serious relationship again until she met a German record executive named Erwin Bach while at Heathrow Airport in London in 1985. After a year, they started dating and have been living together ever since. Turner has lived in Europe since the mid-1980s, after she moved to London in 1986 and then Cologne, Germany, later that decade; she moved to Switzerland in 1994. In 1996, she began building a villa outside Nice, France, which was completed in 2000.[citation needed] Turner now divides her time between Switzerland, England, and France.

Miscellaneous Information

Distinctive Features

Well-known for her trademark legs, throaty voice, and boundless stage energy

big hair

big lips

best in the business Legs

Measurements

Bust: Me" a  Waist: ur"  Hips: 38" (Dress size: 6) (Shoe size: 7.5)

Friends and Family

Evelyn Currie [Sister] (killed in an automobile accident in 1954)

Floyd Richard Bullock [Father]

Zelma Currie Bullock [Mother]

Ruby Alline Bullock -Sellico [Sister]

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