Queen of Rock 'n' Roll Tina Turner, 83, has passed away.

 The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Tina Turner, a singer and actress, passed away at the age of 83.

On Wednesday, May 24, Tina Turner's officials revealed that she had gone away after a protracted illness. "There will be a private funeral ceremony attended by close friends and family," the statement continued. Please respect her family's privacy at this trying time.

In Brownsville, Tennessee, on November 26, 1939, Anna Mae Bullock became Turner. She had a tense relationship with her parents as a kid growing up during World War II, and she spent much of her childhood and adolescent years living with her grandparents. She joined her church choir as a young child and later joined the cheering squad and the girls' basketball team in high school. She describes herself as a tomboy. She worked as a nurse's assistant after earning her degree in 1958.

Turner and her sister started frequenting jazz clubs in the St. Louis region in the middle of the 1950s, when they occasionally caught Ike Turner performing with his ensembles the Kings of Rhythm. She took the stage at a Kings of Rhythm concert one evening in 1957 at intermission and performed the blues song "You Know I Love You" by B.B. King. She joined the band as a regular performer almost immediately.

Ike gave Tina the moniker Tina Turner after label president Juggy Murray persuaded him to make her the "star of the show," basing her stage persona on characters from comic books like Sheena, Queen of the Jungle. Ike and Tina Turner's 1960 single "A Fool In Love," which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot R&B Sides chart and No. 27 on the Billboard Hot 100, served as Tina Turner's debut release under her stage name.

Ike and Tina Turner released a number of top hits during the following ten years, winning over icons like David Bowie, Janis Joplin, James Brown, and Elvis Presley. They appeared on TV shows including The Ed Sullivan Show and served as The Rolling Stones' opening act on their 1969 US tour. They added additional rock tunes to their repertoire in the late 1960s, including renditions of popular Beatles songs like "Come Together" and "Get Back." Ike and Tina Turner's version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary" in 1971 gave them their biggest success.

Ike and Tina's relationship started to suffer as a result of his frequent cocaine use. After their 1963 wedding, Tina admitted that their relationship had been considerably more rocky than it had appeared to be. She said Ike was violent to her during their marriage, which prompted her attempt at suicide in 1968. Ike and Tina divorced two years after Tina unexpectedly left him in 1976.

Tina Turner made a comeback in 1977 and started starring in cabaret performances at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas with a sexier persona. Around this time, she began her first solo tour, which helped her career transition from a nostalgia act to an artist who defined a generation.

On September 1st, 1984, Turner achieved her first and only No. 1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” which later earned her the Grammy Award for Record of the Year. Her tenth and final studio album was 1999’s Twenty Four Seven.

Turner accumulated a plethora of honors: She earned 12 Grammys in all, including a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. She was twice inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, awarded the Kennedy Center Honors, and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Her acting credits outside of music include The Mayor in The Last Action Hero, The Acid Queen in The Who's Tommy, and Aunt Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, for which she received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture. Turner contributed to a number of documentaries, including Tina from 2021, and authored a total of four autobiographies.

Turner raised four boys in all: two biological sons and two sons he adopted from Ike. She married German music businessman Erwin Bach in 2013 after 27 years of dating him.