{"id":19398,"date":"2023-06-06T16:58:12","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T20:58:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/?page_id=19398"},"modified":"2023-06-09T17:07:13","modified_gmt":"2023-06-09T21:07:13","slug":"tina-turner-biography","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/exhibitions\/tina-turner-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading has-black-color has-text-color\">Tina Turner (American-Swiss, 1939-2023)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner rose from her origins in a sharecropping family to become one of the most electric performers of twentieth-century American music. Turner first came to prominence as the star performer for the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s, with hits like \u201cRiver Deep \u2014 Mountain High\u201d and \u201cProud Mary.\u201d The band disbanded in 1976, but Turner launched a successful solo career in the 1980s headlined by the hit \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It\u201d her cult performances in The Who\u2019s <em>Tommy<\/em> and <em>Mad Max Behind Thunderdome<\/em>, and her bestselling autobiography <em>I, Tina<\/em>. Her onstage energy and distinctive vocal quality solidified Turner as an icon of rock and R&amp;B music, earning her 12 Grammy awards over her career. Turner eventually relinquished her American citizenship in 2013 and moved to Switzerland, where she passed away earlier this year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-gallery has-nested-images columns-default is-cropped wp-block-gallery-1 is-layout-flex wp-block-gallery-is-layout-flex\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"900\" height=\"600\" data-id=\"19567\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-900x600.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-19567\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-900x600.webp 900w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-400x267.webp 400w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-768x512.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-1536x1024.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner-942x628.jpg 942w, https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2023\/06\/iooss-turner.webp 1919w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"10\" height=\"10\" data-id=\"14895\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/files\/2021\/01\/blank-image-2.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14895\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tina Turner (American-Swiss, 1939-2023) Born Anna Mae Bullock, Turner rose from her&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1626,"featured_media":0,"parent":1152,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_dimp_site_id":"","_dimp_override_contact":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-19398","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1626"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19398"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19569,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/19398\/revisions\/19569"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/museum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}