Tina Turner, legendary singer, dead at 83, according to reports

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• Tina Turner has died at the age of 83, her family said in a statement. 
• She rose to fame with her musical partner (and later husband) Ike Turner on songs including “Proud Mary.”
• As a solo artist, Turner achieved success with albums like “Private Dancer.”
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Legendary singer Tina Turner has died at the age of 83, her family said, according to multiple reports.

“Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ has died peacefully today at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland,” her family said in a statement on Wednesday, according to Rolling Stone. “With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model.”

The Grammy-winning music icon was known for hit songs like “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” “Private Dancer,” and “Better Be Good to Me.”

Early life in the South

Tina Turner, whose real name is Anna Mae Bullock, was born on November 26, 1939, in Nutbush, Tennessee. She grew up with her mother, Zelma Bullock, father, Floyd Bullock, and older sister, Alline Bullock. Turner described her family as “well-to-do farmers” in a 1986 cover story for Rolling Stone magazine and said that while they weren’t poor, she could recognize the difference between her family and others that were wealthier. 

“To me, it seemed as if we lived well,” Turner told the publication. “My sister and I had our own room. Each season we’d get new clothes, and I was always fresh and neat, especially compared to a lot of other people around me. We were never hungry.”

She added: “Of course, we knew the difference between our family and, say, the daughters of schoolteachers — those people were educated. My parents weren’t, per se, but they had a lot of common sense and spoke well. We weren’t low-class people. In fact, my parents were church people; my father was a deacon in the church.”

Turner lived with her paternal grandmother at one point and recalled being “miserable” during a 2005 interview with Oprah Winfrey. Turner told Rolling Stone that her parents “didn’t love each other” and constantly fought.

Her mother left her when Turner was 10 years old and went to live in St. Louis, Missouri. Her father left the family for Chicago when she was 13 years old; Turner said it was “fine” because the pair “weren’t that close.”

“My parents weren’t mine, and I wasn’t theirs, really, so when they left, it was as if they had always been gone as far as I was concerned,” she told Rolling Stone. 

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