Tina Turner is worth $ 300 million, and on her way to the stars she has gone through hell

When she came out of a violent marriage with Ike Turner in 1976, Tina was only entitled to her name.

Now, 45 years later, the "queen of rock'n'roll" has sold the rights to part of her musical opus, managing her name and image to the music label BMG.

The value of the deal has not been disclosed, but the media speculate that it is about $ 50 million. Prior to the realization of this contract, the fortune of one of the greatest music artists of the 20th century was estimated at $ 250 million.

A good portion of that wealth was earned on major tours where she filled stadiums around the world. For example, her final tour “Tina! 50th Anniversary ”earned $ 134 million in North America and Europe during 2008 and 2009.

Tina will soon be celebrating her 82nd birthday, she was born as Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee, and was the youngest daughter of Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock. The family lived in a nearby community in Nutbush, where her father worked as a tenant supervisor at Poindexter Farm.

SEPARATED DURING THE WAR

She later recalled picking cotton with her family from an early age, and participating in a documentary about African Americans, she did a test that showed her DNA was predominantly African and 33 percent European, with only one percent descended from North American tribes.

Little Anna and her two older sisters were separated when their parents went to Knoxville to work in a military factory during World War II. Anna lived with strict, religious paternal grandparents who were deacons of the Baptist church. After the war, the sisters lived with their parents again in Knoxville, and then they all returned to Nutbush, where Anna attended Flagg Grove Elementary School.

Anna sang in the choir of the local Baptist church, and when she was 11 years old, her mother ran away from her husband and moved to St. Louis. Two years later Floyd Bullock remarried and moved to Detroit. Anna and her sisters went to live with their maternal grandmother in Brownsville.

In her autobiography, “I, Tina,” the famous musician said she felt her mother didn’t love her, that she wasn’t wanted, and that her mother planned to leave her father while she was pregnant with her. "She was a very young woman who did not want another child," Tina wrote.

As a teenager, Anna worked as a housekeeper in the Henderson family, and in high school, she was a member of both the cheerleading team and the women’s basketball team. Her grandmother died when she was 16 and she went to live with her mother in St. Louis where she finished high school and after that, she worked as a paramedic in a hospital.

She often went to St. John's nightclubs with her sister and saw Ike Turner for the first time with his band “Kings of Rhythm” at the Manhattan Club. She was amazed at his talent and asked him to let her sing with the band even though very few women had performed with them until then. Turner said he would call her, but he never did.

One night in 1957 during a break took the microphone and sang the ballad "You Know I Love You" by BB King. When he heard her sing, Ike asked if she knew any more songs, so she sang the rest of the night and became the band’s occasional vocalist, during which time Ike taught her the finesse of voice control and performance.

REACHING THE TOP, THEN PARTING

She first appeared on a record in 1958 under the name Little Ann on the single "Boxtop", and in 1960, when she recorded the song "A Fool in Love", Anne became Tina Turner. The duo of Ike & Tina Turner became one of the most impressive music performers in history, among their biggest hits were "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep - Mountain High", "Proud Mary" and "Nutbush City Limits" before the 1976 breakup. 

For the next few years, Tina made money by appearing in television programs, partly in Italy, the two albums she released were not successful ...

In the 1980s, Tina made one of the greatest comebacks in music history, her multiple platinum albums "Private Dancer" from 1984 featuring the hit "What's Love Got to Do with It" which won a Grammy Award for Song of the Year and was Tina's first and only number one on the Billboard Hot 100 list. At the age of 44, Tina was the oldest solo musician to enter the Hot 100.

Also successful on the lists were "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "Simply Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight" and GoldenEye. During the Break Every Rule world tour in 1988, Tina set a Guinness World Record for the largest number of audiences with paid tickets for a solo artist - 180,000 at the Stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

She also starred in the 1975 films "Tommy," "Mad Max 3: Thunderdome" in 1985, and "The Last Action Hero."

THE FIRST WOMAN ON THE COVER OF ROLLING STONE

Tina has sold more than a hundred million records worldwide, won 12 Grammy Awards, was the first dark-skinned musician and the first woman on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine. She has her own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, and was twice inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, in 1991 with Ike Turner - he was in jail at the time, and she didn’t show up for the ceremony. This year she was listed as a solo artist.

Tina officially stopped performing in 2009, and returned from retirement briefly in July 2020, collaborating with Norwegian producer Kygo on a remix of the hit "What's Love Got to Do with It." With the release of this remix, Tina became the first artist to have a hit on the top 40 charts over seven consecutive decades in the UK.

Tina’s first love in Brownsville was Harry Taylor, whom she met at a school basketball game. She later said of him that he was very popular and had a lot of girls, but she still won him over and they were together for a year. Their relationship ended when she discovered that Harry had married a girl who had become pregnant with him.

After moving to St. Louis and meeting band members of Ike Turner, Tina began a relationship with saxophonist Raymond Hill and became pregnant while in the final grade of high school. She moved in with Hill, who lived with Ike.

Their relationship ended when Hill broke his ankle by wrestling with band singer Carlson Oliver and returned to his hometown of Clarksdale before his and Tina's son Craig was born in August 1958, leaving Tina to the fate of a single mother.

Tina and Ike were platonic friends from the time they met in 1957 to 1960, and the relationship began while Ike was still in a relationship with Lorraine Taylor, with whom he lived. After they recorded “A Fool In Love,” Tina told him she didn’t want to continue a relationship with him, and he retaliated by hitting her on the head with a wooden shoe mold.

It was an incident, as Tina later recounted, that instilled fear in her, but she decided to stay with Ike because she really cared about him. After the birth of their son Ronnie in October 1960, they moved to Los Angeles in 1962 and married in Tijuana. Ike bought a house in the View Park area where Tina's son Craig and Ike's sons Ike Jr. and Michael from a relationship with Lorraine lived with them, along with their common son.

Ike was violent and promiscuous throughout the marriage, which led to Tina’s suicide attempt in 1968 by an overdose of Valium pills. By the mid-1970s, Ike, who was diagnosed with bipolar disorder at a later age, became a severe cocaine addict, further affecting his relationship with Tina.

‘SMALL’ PERFORMANCES TO PAY OFF DEBTS

After a physical confrontation on the way to a hotel in New York in 1976, Tina ran away with only 36 cents in her pocket and hid with a friend. She filed for divorce, which was finalized in March 1978. In the divorce lawsuit, she demanded $ 4,000 a month in alimony, $ 1,000 a month in child support, and custody of her sons Craig and Ronnie.

With the final divorce agreement, she took responsibility for the missed concerts, retained the right to royalties for the songs she wrote, but Ike was given the publishing rights for her and her songs.

Tina kept two Jaguar cars, fur, and jewelry, as well as her stage name. She gave Ike her stake in the Bolic Sound music studio, publishing companies, real estate, and he also kept four cars. Several promoters lost money and filed lawsuits for losses, for almost two years Tina received food stamps and performed in small clubs to pay off debts.

Following Ike's death in December 2007, Tina issued a brief statement saying she had not been in contact with him for more than 30 years and that no further statements would be made.

In 1986, Tina met German music manager Erwin Bach, who was sent by her European publishing company EMI to meet her at Düsseldorf Airport. Bach is 16 years younger than her, they were initially friends, and the relationship began a year later. They were married in July 2013 on the shores of Lake Zurich in Küsnacht, Switzerland, where they have lived since 1994 in a house called Château Algonquin.

Tina owns real estate in Cologne, London, and Los Angeles, as well as a villa on the French Riviera, named Anna Fleur.

In January 2013, Tina applied for Swiss citizenship and, after passing the test, she obtained it in April of that year, and in October she handed in her papers at the US Embassy renouncing her US citizenship.

Three weeks after her marriage to Bach, she suffered a stroke and had to learn to walk again, and in 2016, she was diagnosed with bowel cancer.

She treated high blood pressure with homeopathic products, which resulted in damage and ultimately kidney failure. She was advised to start dialysis, considered assisted suicide, and joined Exit, but her husband Erwin offered his kidney for a transplant. The transplant operation was performed on April 7, 2017.

By: Amber V. - Gossip Whispers