"If anyone is a rock god, it's Tina Turner."
She could have kept going, running victory-lap tours and lending her voice to big-tent projects like she did with her 1995 James Bond theme. But she announced her retirement in 2000 and mostly stuck to itsave one last tour in 2008 and 2009. Her legacy only continued to grow while she watched from her château in Switzerland, where she lived with her husband, Erwin Bach, a former music executive. In pop music, her spirita combination of exertion, excellence, vulnerability, and spectaclehas been carried forward by apostles such as Beyoncé. In culture more broadly, her story has become a kind of folktale, told and retold in books and TV shows and on Broadway. By the end of her life, that queen title she dreamed about may have become an understatement.
If anyone is a rock god, its Tina Turner.
https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2023/05/tina-turner-obituary/674186/
chowmama
(396 posts)was the contrast between her and the other strong-voiced women rock singers of the time. As far as I remember, only Tina kept the strong voice and presence off the stage. I'm thinking especially of Janis and her little-girl interview voice. There were some in other styles - Eartha Kitt. Nina Simone. FAFO with either was a real thing. But rock was seen as male, and there was still a need for rock women to be non-threatening and ladylike.
I loved the strong female rock singers of the period. I loved Janis. And Etta. But Tina was the honey badger. She didn't care. Onstage, she brought it; offstage, they could bring it on.
ancianita
(35,813 posts)The way you put it, her audacity and style on and offstage did stand out in a male dominated rock world.
Thanks for pointing that out.
Aristus
(66,096 posts)I just thought she was shy and the voice went with the shyness.