madlove for the turner woman btw..
music is so influential in our lives, for some it is their lives, literally. some very successful artists started with absolutely nothing, most living with poverty, abuse, addiction, etc. one such very influential artist is anna mae bullock, aka; tina turner.
she is one of the most influential international female artists, as she has been in the music industry for almost fifty years.
she was born in nutbush, tennesse, in the year 1939. that's right, she is sixty nine years at this very moment, and as of the 26th of november, she will be seventy years old, she definately doesn't look it.
anna mae's parents left her and her sister behind to live with their grandmother, up untill the age of 16. from there she was reunited with her mother in st. louis, where the world of r&b was opened up for her. ike turner's kings of rythem were playing at a local club one night, low and behold anna mae was called up on stage to sing. from there on band leader ike turner planned to develop anna mae into a five star preformer, her show name was soon changed to tina turner, soon after ike and tina married.
tina soon became known as the power behind the group. ike was described as the ''initial brains'' of the group was otherwise known as a violent, drug-addicted, wife-beater; he was said to beat tina, and other women, publically and privately. tina made hits like, "proud mary" and "nutbush city limits", ike blamed tina because tina was in the spot light, and fame eluded the entirety of the group. years of misery passed, including a failed suicide attempt, and tina had enough, she left the group [and ike].
from then on, tina has been extremely successful, still preforming shows, still doing what she does best. :)
