Ca Sĩ Tina Turner

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Tina Turner, tên thật là Anna Mae Bullock, sinh ngày 26 tháng 11 năm 1939, là Phật tử tại gia, quy y theo Pháp Hoa Tông của Nhật Bản. Bà là một ca sĩ người Mỹ và nữ diễn viên có nghề nghiệp đã kéo dài hơn 50 năm. Cô đã giành được nhiều giải thưởng và thành tích của mình trong các thể loại nhạc rock đã giành được một danh hiệu The Queen of Rock 'n' Roll. Turner bắt đầu sự nghiệp âm nhạc của cô với chồng Ike Turner là một thành viên của các Ike và Tina Turner Revue.
Tina Turner is a legend. She´s a woman who didn´t give up. Her dramatic lifestory is known around the world. After years with her violent husband Ike she finally left him and started to rebuild her own career as a solo artist. She was half a million in debt and it took eight years of hard work before she finally hit the charts with Let's Stay Together in 1983. 1984 was the year of her worldwide comeback: she had a huge hit single What´s Love Got To Do With It and a multi-million selling album Private Dancer. She became a legend and a bigger star than ever before. No one was interested in Ike. It was just Tina.
Tina became one of the greatest female rock stars in the world. She is known worldwide for her amazing and spectacular rock concerts (and for her legs...) and powerful and raw voice, but especially in Europe she has become a very popular live act and huge record seller. All of her tours have broke box-office records around the continent. Since 1983, She has had over 20 Top 40 hits in the UK and all of her albums have been UK Top 10 hits. Her albums have sold over 50 million copies worldwide. She´s admired by millions of people around the world and is one of the most beloved singers in the world. Her fans include Bryan Adams, Eric Clapton, Mick Jagger, Mark Knopfler, Rod Stewart and David Bowie, just to name a few. Tina deserves the title The Queen Of Rock´n´Roll, and after 40 years on stage she´s still rolling on the river. She really is Simply The Best.
Here is her interesting lifestory, one of the most well-known stories of the music business. Listen to the story...
1939 AND THE CHILDHOOD
Anna Mae Bullock was born November 26, 1939. She grew up a small town called Nutbush, Tennessee. Her father was in charge of a farm there. Life wasn't easy, but the Bullocks had a house, and food enough to eat. Even then, the young Anna had a good voice. But she also had dreams. The magazines and songs and films that reached Nutbush showed her a different world. It was a happy, beautiful world, and Anna wanted to live in it.
But although she was happy in her dreams, she was not happy at home. Her parents were always fighting, and soon the fights became much worse. At last, her mother Zelma left for St. Louis and didn't come back. For the 10-year-old Anna and her 13-year-old sister Alline, it was a terrible time in their lives.
But worse was to come. Her father married again, and within a couple of years he packed his bags and moved to Detroit. A cousin took the girls into her house, but then Alline moved to St. Louis to live with her mother Zelma. And when Anna was sixteen, she suddenly asked herself: "Why do I need to stay in Tennessee? Why not follow Alline?"
Anna moved to St. Louis to live with her mother and sister, and in St. Louis, Anna completed high school. She began to go out in the evenings with Alline. That's when she discovered the Club Manhattan - the most famous night club in St Louis. Alline was a regular visitor there, but for months she refused to take her younger sister with her. The, one Saturday after Anna's seventeenth birthday, Alline changed her mind.
There was a band playing at the club that night - the Kings of Rhythm. They were already on stage when Anna and Alline arrived. The two girls sat down at a table and began to listening to the hard, fast music. Then a few minutes later, the leader of the band appeared. He walked slowly across the stage, picked up a guitar, and began to play. His name was Ike Turner.
1956
When Anna first saw Ike he was 24 and she was 16 years old. As a teenager he had played records at a radio station in his home town in Mississippi. Then, while he was still at school, he formed an eighteen-man band: The Tophatters. After a year or two The Tophatters divided into two smaller groups. One of them, led by Ike, was The Kings of Rhythm.
Anna had never heard such exciting music in all her life. Soon she became a regular at the Manhattan. Together with Alline she got to know the musicians in the band. She even told Ike that she wanted to sing on stage with the Kings. "Good idea", he replied, "I'll give you a chance one day soon". But the weeks passed and Anna's chance never came. Then, one night, somebody in the band asked Alline to sing, but she refused so Anna just started singing.
Ike jumped off the stage, ran across the room and lifted Anna off the ground. After that Anna Mae Bullock became one of several singers with The Kings of Rhythm. Ike called her "Little Ann" and started to buy her clothes and jewellery. Pink, silver and blue dresses - he even bought her a gold tooth. Anna thought she was in heaven.
There was a problem, though - Zelma. Anna was still a high-school student and hadn't told her about her new job with The Kings of Rhythm. Then one day a friend of Ike's - another singer - called at the Bullock's house. She asked Zelma if "Little Ann" was ready to come and practice some new ongs with the band. Suddenly Anna's secret wasn't a secret any more.
Mother and daughter argued. At first Zelma simply refused to allow Anna to go on appearing at clubs and dances. Then a few days later Ike drove up to the house in a pink Cadillac. He talked to Zelma and explained that he wanted to look after Anna like an older brother. She had a beautiful voice and he believed she was going to be a big star. Zelma wanted her daughter to be a success, didn't she? Wasn't that what every mother wanted for her children.
1958
At Ike´s suggestion, Anna Mae took the stage name Tina Turner. According to Tina, the name reminded Ike of Sheena the jungle queen from the TV series. During the year Tina, who worked at a hospital during the day and sang at night, gave birth to a boy, Craig, whose father was one of Ike´s band members who had left them soon.
1960 / 1961
Ike´s and Tina´s first hit was A Fool In Love on the Sue label in October 1960. It reached #27 on pop charts and #2 on R&B charts on October 22. The song was mentioned to be sung by a another session singer, but because the singer didn´t show up this song was soon sang by Tina. Due to the success of the single Ike´s band changed its name to The Ike & Tina Turner Revue. The band had three female back up singers called the Ikettes who supported Tina on the background. Tina became a popular and striking stage performer.
In December 1960 the duo released it´s second single. I Idolize You, reached #82 on the pop charts and #5 on the R&B charts on December 31. The duo´s first US Top 20 hit was It´s Gonna Work Out Fine which hit #14 (on the R&B charts #2) on September 18 in 1961, three months prior to the release of Ike and Tina´s debut album, The Soul Of Ike And Tina Turner.
Tina was very happy back then. But the things began to change. Both on-stage and off, Ike Turner controlled the
Revue completely. He chose the songs, the musicians in the band, the clubs they played in - everything. He also began to control Tia. She was also now a mother of two children. She had a second son. Ike was the father. They were now almost a family, with Tina also looking after Ike's two sons from his first marriage. Tina's life was hard and busy. The Revue were now one of America's top black bands. They even appeared on TV, and then in Las Vegas for the first time.
But although they were a success, Ike and Tina still hadn't scored a really big hit in the white pop charts. Ike was prepared to do anything to get one. That's why the Revue toured and recorded so much in the early '60s. Ike knew that Tina was the real star of the Revue. He also knew that without her he might never get the number one records and millions of dollars he wanted so badly. Somehow he had to have total control over her. The answer was marriage.
1962
Soon after the Revue moved from St. Louis to California in 1962, Ike asked Tina to become his wife. She accepted because she was frightened. Two days later Ike drove her to Tijuana in Mexico. Tina expected a real wedding with a white dress and a cake.
January 27 Poor Fool reached #38 in the US and #4 on the R&B charts. Next month the Ikettes and the band (without Tina) released a song called I´m Blue (The Gong Gong Song) which Ike had leased to Atco and made US #19 on the charts.
April 28 Tra La La La La made US #50. Two months later, June 30, You Should´a Treated Me Right peaked at US #89. It was the duo´s last hit for Sue Records. In 1962 the record company also released two Ike & Tina albums: It´s Gonna Work Out Fine and Don´t Play Me Cheap.
1964
October 17 I Can´t Believe What You Say (For Seeing What You Do) reached #95 in the USA and the duo was signed to the Kent label. A pattern of R&B successes that do not always cross over is developing: Ike & Tina became one of the most popular acts of the 60s on the R&B tour circuits; towards the end of the decade they started to break to wider audiences.
1965
February the duo moved to Warner Bros. Records. They didn´t have any chart entries for this label, but their album Live! The Ike And Tina Turner Show, a recording of their highely-rated stage act at the Skyliner Ballroom, Fort Worth, Texas, made #126 in the US.
In April Ike had recorded with the Ikettes gain, this time for Kent´s sister label Modern. Their song Peaches ´n´ Cream climbed to US #36. In November the Ikettes´ follow-up single, I´m So Thankful, peaked at US #74.
In December the duo filmed a segment, performing It´s Gonna Work Out Fine and One More Time for the TNT Awards Show TV program with Joan Baez, Bo Diddley, Ray Charles, the Lovin´ Spoonful, the Ronettes, Roger Miller, Petula Clark and Donovan.
During the middle of the 60s, the records were selling well, and Ike and Tina were one of America's top bands. Between Ike and Tina themselves, though, things were getting worse. Ike was growing more and more violent. Also he had started going out with other women. Meanwhile Tina still had to be his "pet" at hoe and "Queen of the Jungle" on stage. At that time the Revue toured for 270 days of each year.
1966
March 1999 there were two new Tina songs on two new albums. The first one was He Lives In You, a song for the European video release of The Lion King II: Simba´s Pride. Tina had been asked to perform the song and she decided to do that as she liked the lyrics. The song is available on Disney´s The Lion King Collection: Songs From And Inspired By The Lion King Movies. The second song is Easy As Life which also features African singer Angelique Kidjo. The song was composed by Tim Rice and written by Elton John and it´s available on Elton John And Tim Rice´s Aida, an album full of stars such as Lulu, Janet Jackson, LeAnn Rimes, The Spice Girls, Sting and Tina and Elton of course. The album includes music from the John / Rice stage musical Aida which had its world premiere in October 1998 as Elaborate Lives: The Legend Of Aida. The show will be on Broadway too.
13 April Tina will be participating the VH1 Divas Live ´99 show with Whitney Houston, Cher and Brandy at New York´s Beacon Theatre. The show is a sequel to last years hugely popular VH1 Divas Live show which featured Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan, Aretha Franklin, Shania Twain and Mariah Carey. The show became the biggest-rated show of VH1.
It has also been confirmed that Tina and Elton are going on a tour together this fall. This couple will tour in North America, Australia and New Zealand. They will also have two New Year´s special shows in Las Vegas at the end of this year.
There´ll be a new greatest hits album (Vol. 2.) in October. Tina will probably record a few new songs for it.
At the moment Tina lives in Zurich and south of France, with her long-time boyfriend Erwin Bach. She´s got a villa in Cap Ferat near to Nice, France and her neigbours include Elton John (who sometimes borrows a wig from her) and U2.
October is a very emotional month for Tina. First she gets a lifetime MOBO Award in England. Lionel Richie is the one who present it to her. Shortly after this event, Zelma Bullock, Tina’s mother, died in her sleep in a hospital, at the age of 81 years. Even though, Tina didn't cancel the taping of the Celebration Birthday Special, which is taped in London. After the taping she flies to the US to pay respects to her mother.
Life goes on and the single “When The Heartache Is Over” is released. Tina announces a new world tour for the year 2000 during a Paris press conference. November: Release of the new album “Twenty For Seven”.
2000
The second single of 24/7 is released in Januari. Tina has started the rehearsals in South Africa for the upcoming tour. The opening night is in Minneapolis March 23, and the first two songs are broadcasted. The first part of the tour ends in June, East Rutherford, and Europe will have his part of the show. There are not too many shows and in August it all ends in Poland, Sopot.
Tina keeps busy and in August she is back on the road again in the US. This time the tour starts in Boston, and the last show of the 24/7 tour ends at Anaheim December 6th. Tina is such a professional lady. Even though she is sick, no one in the audience noticed she was, only the real fans. She gave it all!!
2003
We are working on a possibility of musical based on the life of Tina Turner. This would not come out until 2005 / 2006. In addition, there is a possibility of Tina Turner appearing in a Merchant Ivory film. Phil Collins is in Switzerland this week recording Tina Turner's song "Great Spirits" for the upcoming movie "Brother Bear."
BROTHER BEAR PREMIERE NEW YORK 20 OCTOBER; The inimitable, one and only, most fabulous, essential Miss Tina Turner paid a special visit to New York last night. She was in town for the glamorous premiere of Disney's new animated feature, "Brother Bear." Turner, you see, sings in the film, along with Phil Collins. And so she came to the New Amsterdam Theatre, home on most nights to Disney's stage production of "The Lion King." And so did the paparazzi who blew off the premiere across town of Angelina Jolie in Paramount's soggy "Beyond Borders." Tina vs. Jolie is no contest apparently.
"We love you, Tina!" was the shout that came from most of the photographers, and they meant it. People go crazy around Tina Turner. And mind you, she is tiny, about 5'3". She is also quiet. But when she walks, oh those legs -- they haven't changed. She wore black leather boots that came up to her knees. She had on a mini skirt and a tight top too. Her hair was the color of copper, cut in a shag but back to its old consistency from the late 60s and not standing four feet over her head.
On the red carpet, there was one of those disjointed moments from pop culture when you wish you had a camera. Turner was introduced to Estelle Harris, the actress known for playing George's mother on "Seinfeld." Turner was bewildered. Harris seemed awed. It was surreal.
"You're the best thing around," Harris said to Turner. You know, whatever. I wonder if anyone got a picture. Once we were safely inside the theatre, a publicist came up to Turner. "Everyone wants to know what you're wearing," she said. Turner replied, "The top is Celine, and so is the skirt. The boots are Chanel. The hair is Tina Turner and so are these!" She meant the legs.
Did I tell you that Tina Turner will turn 64 years old next month? Hot stuff, huh? So what's she up to? Not much. "I'm living in France and Switzerland, enjoying my retirement," she told me. Is she gardening? "No!" she said, as if I were crazy to suggest it. "Even her manager is retired," joked her manager, Roger Davies, who came with her.
Also accompanying Turner was her boyfriend, former record exec Erwin Bach, with whom she's lived since 1986."When the movie ended, Tina got on stage and belted out her "Bear" song with Collins. It's called "Great Spirits", and when she was done, Turner and company split for London without a moment to spare.
2004
3 FEBRUARY 2004
Tina is currently in pre-production for a Merchant Ivory film that is set in India. It will be filmed in autumn this year in Asia.In town to shoot for a Merchant-Ivory production, music legend Tina Turner was spotted savouring a Cabernet Sauvignon at Ricks, Taj Mahal Hotel Bigger Picture. While the city went berserk as Bryan Adams belted out Summer of ’69, ageless pop diva Tina Turner – best known for What’s Love Got To Do With It? and Better Be Good to Me – savoured her wine and enjoyed a quiet dinner at the Taj Mahal hotel.
What brought Turner to the city? Was she here on a spiritual rejuvenation trip? Or was she here to hear Adams perform live, which isn’t really surprising, because, reportedly, Turner does tune in to his music. But, if you really wanna know, ask Ismail Merchant. Producer Merchant told Entertainment Weekly the film is called The Goddess. Turner plays Kali in the movie.
The buzz is that Turner was spotted at Ricks with Hollywood actor Matthew Modine, who is also in town to promote Le Divorce, Merchant and Ivory’s new romantic comedy. Turner’s visit has been a hush-hush affair. Still, guests couldn’t have missed Lady Long Legs, as she was popularly known in music circles, savouring a glass of the Rs 9,000 a bottle Cabernet Sauvignon at Ricks, dressed in an elegant brown dress.
“From Ricks, she moved on to dine at the Machan. It was here that one could notice that the diva was having a good time,” says a guest. Turner, 64, once famously announced that she planned to work till she turned 90.
Oprah's 50th BIRTHDAY
It might have been Oprah Winfrey’s golden 50th, but the television phenomenon was definitely “in the pink” Thursday as she walked into her show’s West Side Harpo studio that had been decked out with tens of thousands of roses in various shades of the superstar’s favorite floral colors. But before facing 300 specially-invited guests – and her millions of viewers – Oprah threw her own, much more intimate, personal 50th birthday party Wednesday night at Chicago’s Metropolitan Club, located on the 66th and 67th floors of Sears Tower.
Joined by approximately 70 close friends, her father, Vernon Winfrey, other family members and godchildren, Winfrey’s super-exclusive guest list was clearly limited to those especially near and dear. That group also included Coretta Scott King, her longtime “best friend,” broadcaster and key “O” magazine editor Gayle King, and jazz great Ramsey Lewis, who serenaded the talk show legend with a special “Happy Birthday.”
In a very thoughtful toast to his significant other, Winfrey’s longtime beau Stedman Graham explained he’s spent an incredible amount of time with her, an experience he said was difficult to put into words. Graham went on to say how “truly extraordinary” she is and noted her ability to make women realize their potential. But Graham thanked Winfrey for allowing him “as a Black man to be able to realize my own dreams” and to help him “exercise my own imagination to allow me to fulfill those dreams.”
At the end of the Wednesday party, Winfrey herself addressed her guests, expressing gratitude to both her parents for giving her life and thanked God for making 1954 her birth year – noting the significance of “Brown vs. the Board of Education” and it’s impact on her as an African-American.
The far more glitzy Harpo Studios bash Thursday focused far more on Winfrey’s life in the public eye. On the live, 9 a.m. broadcast, King kicked things off in grand fashion – quickly introducing “my co-host” John Travolta – who emotionally thanked Winfrey for “changing the lives” of millions, specifically highlighting her wide-ranging efforts to fight AIDS and bring education to southern Africa. The actor was soon followed by Winfrey’s friend Tina Turner – causing the TV queen to literally drop her jaw as Turner whipped the crowd into a frenzied sing-along of her classic, “Only the Best.”
That was only the beginning. Stevie Wonder serenaded twice, including “Happy Birthday to You” with specially scripted “Oprah-esque” lyrics. A highlight of the show came when a 400-pound banana-flavored, rose-bedecked designer birthday cake was wheeled out by none other than Tonight Show host Jay Leno.
The hour-long broadcast was packed with taped video tributes. Tom Cruise and Julia Roberts led things off. Tom Hanks sang his own humorous Oprah birthday song. Maria Shriver thanked Winfrey for being a “best girlfriend” who she “could call at any hour of the day or night – and have!” Diane Sawyer turned risqué and held up a black lace thong as something important to as a wardrobe addition to women “coming over the hill” to their 50s. Winfrey’s “The Color Purple” director Steven Spielberg congratulated her on “always getting it right” and Halle Berry stayed in character – and full costume – as “Catwoman” to wish Winfrey well – complete with quite a crack of a very long bullwhip. Other taped tributes came from Nicole Kidman, Michael Douglas, Nelson Mandela, Sidney Poitier, Quincy Jones, Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith and the cast of “Sex and the City.”
After the live broadcast, the guests – ladened-down with commemorative “Oprah’s 50th” t-shirts, pajamas, tote bags and journals – were escorted into an adjacent studio for a gourmet lunch catered by Wolfgang Puck, while hot pop star Josh Groban and a band from South Africa entertained the lucky crowd.
In April, Tina announced she has plans to release an album on November 1st, 2004, with a newly recorded single currently scheduled to be released on 25th October. The process of co-ordinating track listing and music, is still going on, therefore it is not available yet.
In October Tina started her promotion tour with "Open Arms". She went to England, Holland, France, Germany, Italy and Swiss.
September: With sensual, soulful and powerful vocals that have been part of music history for over four decades – Tina Turner is back with a new album. ‘All The Best’ is set for release by EMI Records on 1 November 2004.
For the first time, the highlights of Tina’s unrivalled career have been united on one double-CD anthology. ‘All The Best’ is the comprehensive and essential collection of recorded works by this unique and Iconic performer. Across two discs and 33 tracks, it features the songs that first made her famous in the Sixties, reviews two decades of spectacular solo recordings, and then brings the story right up to date with three newly-recorded songs. One of these, ‘Open Arms’, produced by Jimmy Hogarth, is set to be released as a single on 25 October 2004.
‘All The Best’ is an album that will delight the legions of fans who have followed Tina’s extraordinary creative journey, just as it will seduce new admirers. The array of hit songs on the collection is mesmerizing, from ‘River Deep Mountain High’, ‘Proud Mary’ and ‘Nutbush City Limits’, via Turner’s early emergence as a solo superstar with ‘Let’s Stay Together’, ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It’ and ‘We Don’t Need Another Hero’ right through to hits of the ‘90s like ‘I Don’t Wanna Fight’, ‘Goldeneye’ and ‘When The Heartache Is Over’, the latter from her album, 1999’s ‘Twenty Four Seven’. But this is no time warp
'All The Best’ features three completely new recordings by Tina, all of them showing that her vocal majesty continues its reign to this day. The powerful new performance ‘Open Arms’f" is joined by ‘Complicated Disaster’ produced by Steve Robson and ‘Something Special’, produced by Trevor Horn. As if that wasn’t enough, there are some gems for the Tina collector in there too, including a live-in-London version of ‘Addicted To Love’ and her duet with Italian says, Anna Mae Bullock was in recording sessions as early as 1953, when she was barely a teenager.
As the massively successful film ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ would later depict, she had to haul her way up a mountain of debts and disinterest. But with the help of young Australian manager Roger Davies, Tina refound the rock 'n' roll raunch of her best records, infused it with her intuitive soulfulness, and started again. In 1982, she landed a new solo deal with Capitol Records. By the summer of ‘84, fuelled by the acclaimed leadoff single ‘What's Love Got To Do With It?’, ‘Private Dancer’ was on its way to world sales of 11 million .
What's followed has been a breathless catalogue of collaborations and achievements on record, on screen and as an author. They included a role as Aunty Entity in ‘Max Mad: Beyond Thunderdome’; a duet with Mick Jagger at the greatest live event in music history, Live Aid; a raft of Grammy Awards; a bestselling autobiography, ‘I, Tina’; record and concert dates with fans like Bryan Adams, Rod Stewart, Elton John, David Bowie, Eric Clapton and Mark Knopfler; and record-breaking concert tours all around the world.
New York-based Indian author Suketu Mehta is penning the next Merchant-Ivory production "The Goddess" starring Tina Turner in the lead role. Directed and produced by the duo of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, "The Goddess" is inspired by an old Indian fable of a ghost who asks riddles to a king. "Tina Turner is playing the goddess and she will sing four songs composed by tabla maestro Zakir Hussain," Mehta told IANS. He is now on a tour of India to promote his new book on Mumbai, "Maximum City: Bombay Lost & Found". "The songs would be in English with snatches of different languages," he said. November: TINA RETURNS WITH NEW ALBUM, ‘ALL THE BEST’ OUT 1 NOVEMBER 2004 in Europe. The album will be released in the US and Canada February 1, 2005
Gold for Tina Turners "Cologne - November 22. All The Best" Tina, with her Soul voice since over 40 years one of the large icons of the rock music, received gold for her current single CD "Open Arms". On the occasion of the November ending of Wetten Dass…? used the delegation of Capitol Music Germany the opportunity to present the artist the gold Award.
2005
January, Tina starts a promotion tour in Canada and the US. She is scheduled for Oprah, Regis & Kelly, The View, The Today Show, The Ellen Degeneress show and CTV.
January 21. "All the Best" has sold 25.000 copies in Belgium. This means a Gold record.
April: Tina went to Copenhagen to celebrate the anniversary of Hans Christiaan Anderson and to sing 2 songs.
May: Merchant Ivory dies. The film, The Goddess, will not be filmed with Tina. There was never a finished script.
Singer Tina Turner says she loves living in Switzerland because everything is so strict. The 64-year-old has lived in a lakeside home in Zurich with her boyfriend, German record company executive Erwin Bach, for nine years. In an interview with Radio Times magazine she says she loves the fact everything runs as it is supposed to.
She says: "I appreciate order and control. I like it that everything is done according to the rules. This is very much my kind of place." The music legend says she is unlikely to marry her boyfriend, who is 16 years younger than her.
She said: "We're like an old wedded couple anyway, so we really don't see the need."She divorced her musical partner Ike Turner in 1978 following an abusive marriage. The star also says she owes the resurrection of her singing career to David Bowie after he persuaded her record label to attend her concert when they were thinking about dropping her. Turner said: "Luckily it was a wonderful show, with a very special energy, and seeing it and the crowd's reaction completely turned round how Capitol viewed me."
"All the Best - The Live Collection", will be relesed on November 15 to compliment the "All The Best" double CD album release. Packaging will be standard double amaray case with booklet.
Tina is in Berlin/Germany at the "Goldene Kamera"-Show, on February 9, 2005. She will perform her song "Complicated Disaster" and she is the winner in the categorie "Best Artist Pop International". Tina arrived in Berlin and walked over the red carpet together with Erwin. When she came into the studio she got standing ovations. She received the Golden Camera, talked to the people and sang "Complicated Disaster". It was not playback and she danced parts of "When the heartache is over" together with the three girls. She left the venue right away. Guess this appearience was good for the public. A woman said on TV that Tina was the highlight of the night. She was simple, cute and not overdressed as many other guests. February 14. Tina was in Baden-Baden/Germany yesterday! (Feb.13) Hillary Clinton got a Media Award 2004. There were probably 100 guests invited, including Tina! April 2. Tina Turner performed at the 19th century author's bicentennial. The singer said Friday she will participate in a televised show at Copenhagen's national soccer stadium on April 2, the anniversary of Andersen's 200th birthday.
"He is, so to speak, 'simply the best' and one of the great storytellers ever," Turner said in a statement released by the organizers of the jubilee.
Turner performed before an audience of 38,000, among several European royals and international celebrities, including British actor Roger Moore, Australian Olympic gold medalist sprinter Cathy Freeman, and American crooner and civil rights promoter Harry Belafonte.
September 1. Sugar Records announced that Tina recorded a duet with Elisa and that the song "Teach Me Again" is used in the UNICEF inspired film "The Invisible Children", it was a one off for a specific charity project.
September 6. Tina Turner to get Kennedy Center honors. Tina Turner, Robert Redford and Tony Bennett will be getting lifetime achievemen t awards from the Kennedy Center in Washington.
In a statement, Kennedy Center Chairman Stephen A. Schwarzman said, "We honor five extraordinary American artists whose unique and abundant contributions to our culture have transformed our lives. Tony Bennett is a brilliant musician and singer's singer whom even the great Frank Sinatra called the best there is; Suzanne Farrell's profound artistry has inspired the creation of masterpieces and is teaching ballet to a new generation; for half a century, the enchanting Julie Harris has been one of this country’s most acclaimed and revered actors; Robert Redford is an actor/director whose extraordinary support of independent film has had an immeasurable impact on filmmakers and audiences alike; and Tina Tuner's sizzling talent and indomitable spirit has made her one of the world’s best-loved entertainers."
The honorees will also get to meet with President Bush at the White House. A gala will be held in their honor at the Kennedy Center on Dec. 4.
November 3. The Women of the Year Award is a new award to be made each year by the Women of the Year organisers to an exceptional woman whose conduct in both her personal and her public life has been both brave and bold, building her life on her own terms and motivating women throughout the world to survive and to succeed with style and character.
November 26. Russian Secret Charity Ball Approximately 100 famous businessmen and pop stars from the U.S. and Europe, including singers Elton John, Tina Turner and supermodel Naomi Campbell, are due to attend the event.The ceremonies to raise funds for charity will take place in Yusupovsky palace in St. Petersburg and in Yuekaterininsky palace in Tsarskoye Selo (Tsar’s Village), former residence of the royal families and visiting nobility 24 km south of the Russia’s northern capital.
December 1. Tina and Oprah were in NYC at the Color Purple broadway premiere.
December 2. Tina Turner a legend of American music, earned accolades from a broad array of pop and jazz stars Sunday during the Kennedy Center Honors.
In honor of Turner, Queen Latifah sang "What's Love Got to Do With It," Melissa Etheridge sang "River Deep, Mountain High" and Beyonce Knowles performed "Proud Mary."
Oprah Winfrey called herself "Tina's biggest known groupie" and spoke of seeing Turner perform live, advising the star-studded audience at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, "Add that to the list of things you do before you die." Beyonce Knowles' tribute to Tina Turner at the Kennedy Center Honors in New York on Sunday night (04DEC05) almost fell on deaf ears when her microphone cut out seconds into her performance.
Dressed in a red, ragged Turner-style outfit, Knowles performed a rousing version of Proud Mary but not without incident.
Ever the professional, the former Destiny's Child star soldiered on as a stage hand dashed on to replace her faulty mic and then continued with an event-stealing performance.
Queen Latifah also performed a tribute to Turner, who was honoured alongside Tony Bennett by US President George W Bush at the black tie affair.
Earlier Sunday, the president welcomed members of the 28th annual class of honorees at a White House reception. "Each of these honorees, in a lifetime of achievement, has set a standard of excellence that is admired throughout the world,'' he said.
2006
November 16. Tina was present at the premiere at the Bond movie Casino Royale at the Abaton cinema in Zurich.
November 27. Only news on the album is that she recorded a couple of tracks with Guy Chambers a while back but we've not taken them any further yet. She's not working with anyone else nor has any plans to record any other songs.
2007
Ike's death.
December 12, 2007. Turner issued a brief statement through a spokesperson regarding the death of her former husband Ike Turner:"Tina is aware that Ike passed away earlier today. She has not had any contact with him in 35 years. No further comment will be made."
2008
Return to the stage.
February 10. At age 68, Turner performed together with Beyoncé at the 50th Annual Grammy Awards that was broadcast live on CBS. It was Turner's first major public performance since her record-breaking Twenty-Four Seven Tour just over seven years earlier. In addition, she picked up a Grammy as a featured artist on River: The Joni Letters.
February 11. Tina joined Russian stars on Monday to crank their best hits as Russia’s likeliest next president Dmitry Medvedev and other top Russian officials celebrated gas giant Gazprom’s 15th anniversary. Tina also regaled the audience with her signature “Private Dancer” and 9 other hits. Some Russian newspapers wrote that the gas giant paid 2.5 million for Tina.
April 29. Tina announced that she would embark on her Tina: Live in Concert Tour in Kansas City, October first 2008. This is Tina's first tour since Twenty Four Seven. Tina, Cher & Oprah spill super secrets at talk show taping: a very special luxe life! For superstar TV titan Oprah Winfrey her taping with legends Tina & Cher was memorable television – and maybe the best ever talk show of her career! Tina, at 68, admitted Oprah and Sophia Loren talked her into coming out of retirement for one last tour.
May 5. She performed a concert at Caesar's Place in Las Vegas with long time friend Cher.
September 30. Tina released a new 18 track CD and digital collection of her top hits, rare live recordings, and two exclusive new tracks. The album. Tina!: Her Greatest Hits. will support her upcoming world tour: Tina: Live in Concert.
October 1. Tina Turner started her latest world tour in Kansas City Missouri at the Sprint Center.
December 13. The North American leg of the tour ends in Toronto, at the Air Canada Centre.
2009
January 14. The European leg of the tour starts in Cologne Germany. She will perform there for 4 nights.
"I always thought of Tina as a myth in the music world" - Eros Ramazzotti -
"I couldn't say no. I went by the studio that same night, did it, and had a ball! Who could refuse Tina Turner? - Sting about his appearance on Tina's On Silent Wings
"I never felt sorry for myself. Once you start the self-pity, you're dead - you're in the box. I didn't allow myself to go in that friggin' box. That's the message. Don't accept it. Keep going." - Tina Turner -

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