Remembering
- 24 Songs
- Private Dancer (2015 Remaster) · 1984
- All the Best: The Hits · 1993
- All the Best: The Hits · 1989
- All the Best: The Hits · 1984
- Private Dancer (2015 Remaster) · 1984
- Foreign Affair (Deluxe Edition) · 2009
- What's Love Got to Do with It · 1993
- Private Dancer (30th Anniversary Edition) · 1985
- Reckless (30th Anniversary) [Deluxe Edition] · 1984
- What's Love Got to Do with It - Single · 2020
Essential Albums
- Tina Turner’s 1984 comeback updates the Southern funk ‘n’ soul she pioneered in the ‘60s with synthesizer tones and hard rock bravado. On “I Can’t Stand the Rain,” she injects Ann Peebles’ torch song with overwhelming emotion, and the husky-voiced title track is simultaneously downcast and defiant. She’s the consummate survivor, lending raw, almost feral intensity to “What’s Love Got to Do With It” and demanding that the world “Show Some Respect.” Members of synth-pop group Heaven 17 handle much of the production, crafting Turner’s manifesto of personal independence into an album for the ages.
Artist Playlists
- Tina Turner wasn't just a powerful vocalist—she was an icon.
- Grab the mic and sing along with some of their biggest hits.
Compilations
- 2014
- Regula Curti, Sawani Shende - Sathaye, Ani Choying, Dima Orsho & Mor Karbasi
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Regula Curti, Dechen Shak-Dagsay & Sawani Shende-Sathaye
- Regula Curti & Dechen Shak-Dagsay
- Regula Curti & Dechen Shak-Dagsay
- Ike & Tina Turner
- Various Artists
More To Hear
- Her epic pop comeback, 40 years later.
- Honoring the two-time Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee.
- Estelle curates a special playlist in honor of Tina Turner.
- Celebrating the iconic career of the late, great Tina Turner.
- Honoring the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll with a song that defines her legacy.
- Honoring Tina Turner with The War and Treaty, Robert Cray, and more.
- Celebrating the icon Tina Turner.
About Tina Turner
Pouring pain and experience and raw sensuality into performances that mixed rock, soul, and blues, singer-songwriter Tina Turner was a wellspring of uncontainable energy. Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, in 1939, Turner sang in church choirs before featuring in The Kings of Rhythm, an R&B band led by her future husband Ike Turner—from whom she would suffer more than a decade of abuse. She channeled that emotion to turn Creedence Clearwater Revival’s gently rolling “Proud Mary” into a tear-the-roof-off anthem and imbue 1973’s semi-autobiographical “Nutbush City Limits” with a self-aware wit. Her show-stealing turn as The Acid Queen in 1975’s film version of The Who’s Tommy only further highlighted her range and hinted at the chart-topping force she’d become. After divorcing Ike and reclaiming her independence in the late ’70s, Turner became a watchword for liberation and self-empowerment at a time when there wasn’t much vocabulary for it. She reinvented herself as a wounded-but-wise R&B singer, chronicling the often devastating complexities of romance with the intimacy and strength of a survivor—particularly on her 1984 pop breakthrough, Private Dancer. In anyone else’s hands, songs such as “Better Be Good to Me” and "What’s Love Got to Do With It” are breezy FM-radio tunes; in Turner's, they're real-life examinations of how destructive emotions can be—a perspective you can still hear in the toughness and vulnerability of Beyoncé and Mary J. Blige. That grace and confidence carried on through the ensuing decades of her work, whether as the singer of 1989's triumphant “The Best,” the actor in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, the author of the frank memoir I, Tina, a style icon, a hero to victims of domestic abuse, or an adherent of Buddhism, whose teachings fueled her creatively and spiritually since the ’70s. Speaking to Oprah Winfrey in 2005, she said, “I want my gift to become a gift for others. We're caught in a stagnant belief system passed on to us from our parents and what’s been given from the churches. I believe there’s another truth. Dancing and singing is all good—but the ultimate gift is to change people’s minds.” Turner died in May 2023 at the age of 83.
- HOMETOWN
- Brownsville, TN, United States
- BORN
- November 26, 1939
- GENRE
- R&B/Soul