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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939 – May 24, 2023) was a singer, songwriter, and actress. Known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the husband-wife duo Ike & Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. Turner began her musical career with her future husband Ike Turner's band, the Kings of Rhythm, in 1956. Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, "Boxtop", in 1958. In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the hit single "A Fool in Love". The Ike & Tina Turner Revue became "one of the most formidable live acts in history". The duo released hits such as "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", "River Deep – Mountain High", "Proud Mary", and "Nutbush City Limits" before disbanding in 1976. In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history". Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song "What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number-one song on the Billboard Hot 100. Her chart success continued with "Better Be Good to Me", "Private Dancer", "We Don't Need Another Hero (Thunderdome)", "Typical Male", "The Best", "I Don't Wanna Fight", and "GoldenEye". She embarked on the Break Every Rule World Tour (1987–1988), which became the top-grossing female tour of the 1980s and set a Guinness World Record for the then-largest paying audience in a concert (180,000). Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975) and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985). In 1986, she published her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, which was adapted for the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour. In 2018, she was the subject of Tina, a jukebox musical. Turner sold more than 100 million records worldwide, becoming one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. She received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and three Grammy Hall of Fame inductions. She was the first black artist and first woman to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone ranked her among the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time and the 100 Greatest Singers of All Time. Turner has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and on the St. Louis Walk of Fame. She was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice: with Ike Turner in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021. She was also a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and the Women of the Year award. Early life Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She was the youngest daughter of Floyd Richard Bullock and his wife Zelma Priscilla (née Currie). The family lived in the rural unincorporated community of Nutbush, Tennessee, where Bullock's father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180; she later recalled picking cotton with her family at an early age. Bullock was African American, but she believed she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry until she participated in the PBS series African American Lives 2 with Henry Louis Gates Jr.. Gates shared her genealogical DNA test estimates and traced her family timeline. Bullock had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock, a songwriter. She was the first cousin once removed of bluesman Eugene Bridges. As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II. Bullock went to stay with her strict, religious paternal grandparents, Alex and Roxanna Bullock, who were deacon and deaconess at the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church. After the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville. Two years later, the family returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community, where Bullock attended Flagg Grove Elementary School from first through eighth grade. As a young girl, Bullock sang in the church choir at Nutbush's Spring Hill Baptist Church. In 1950, when she was 11, her mother Zelma left without warning, seeking freedom from her abusive relationship with Floyd by relocating to St. Louis. Two years after her mother left the family, her father married another woman and moved to Detroit. Bullock and her sisters were sent to live with their maternal grandmother, Georgeanna Currie, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She stated in her autobiography I, Tina that she felt her parents did not love her and that she was not wanted. Zelma had planned to leave Floyd but stayed once she became pregnant. Bullock recalled: "She was a very young woman who didn't want another kid." As a teenager, Bullock worked as a domestic worker for the Henderson family in Ripley, Tennessee. She was at the Henderson house when she was notified that her half-sister Evelyn had died in a car crash alongside her cousins Margaret and Vela Evans while going out, while Evans survived the car crash. A self-professed tomboy, Bullock joined both the cheerleading squad and the female basketball team at Carver High School in Brownsville, and "socialized every chance she got". When Bullock was 16, her grandmother died, so she went to live with her mother in St. Louis. She graduated from Sumner High School in 1958. After high school, Bullock worked as a nurse's aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital. Ike and Tina Turner Origins: 1956–1960 Bullock and her sister began to perform frequently at nightclubs in St. Louis and East St. Louis. She first saw Ike Turner perform with his band the Kings of Rhythm at the Club Manhattan in East St. Louis. Bullock was impressed by his talent, recalling that she "almost went into a trance" watching him play. She asked Turner to let her sing in his band despite the fact that few women had ever sung with him. Turner said he would call her but never did. One night in 1956, Bullock got hold of the microphone from Kings of Rhythm drummer Eugene Washington during an intermission and she sang the B.B. King blues ballad, "You Know I Love You". Upon hearing Bullock sing, Ike Turner asked her if she knew more songs. She sang the rest of the night and became a featured vocalist with his band. During this period, he taught her the finer points of vocal control and performance. Bullock's first recording was in 1958 under the name Little Ann on the single "Boxtop". She is credited as a vocalist on the record alongside Ike and fellow Kings of Rhythm singer Carlson Oliver. In 1960, Ike Turner wrote "A Fool in Love" for singer Art Lassiter. Bullock was to sing background with Lassiter's backing vocalists, the Artettes. Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session at Technisonic Studios. Since Turner had already paid for the studio time, Bullock suggested that she sing the lead. He decided to use Bullock to record a demo with the intention of erasing her vocals .... Discover the Tina Leonard popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Tina Leonard books.
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A Callahan Wedding
Tina Leonard"Holy Smokes. I'm A Father."Sabrina McKinley broke Jonas's heart when she left him for another man. Then the eldest Callahan brother gets the surprise of his life when he sees her ...
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Texas Lullaby
Tina LeonardThis cowboy just wants peace and quietalone!Gabriel Morgan has been called home to Union Junction, Texas, by a father who claims he’s not trying to match his ornery son with a read...
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Navarro or Not
Tina LeonardThe Trouble with CowboysA love'emandleave'em cowboy was not what Nina Cakes wanted when she asked for a muscular man to help move her heirloom bed. After all, it was a cowboy who h...
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TEX TIMES TEN
Tina LeonardShe Was Very, Very Good!Running from relationships was a surefire way to get caught in the marriage trapand ragged on by his brothers. But no matter what those rascals said, Tex Je...
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A Callahan Christmas Miracle
Tina LeonardTO LOVE, HONOR…AND MULTIPLY! Becoming a husband and family man in the middle of a raging land feud wasn't the destiny Galen Callahan saw for himself. But once he laid eyes o...
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The Texas Twins
Tina LeonardWhen New York billionaire John Carruth is summoned to No Chance, Texas, to save the local rodeo, he has no idea he is going home. Now the longlost twin to the town's favorite son i...
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Belonging to Bandera
Tina LeonardThe Greatest AdventureWhen Holly Henshaw, wedding planner extraordinaire, left her nogood fiancé at the altar, she decided then and there: no more true love. Adventure, excitement,...
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Sweet Callahan Homecoming
Tina LeonardFour Babiesand Her Whole Familyto Protect Ashlyn Callahan has always known that her fate can only bring danger to those she loves. That's why she flees Rancho Diabloand the or...
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Callahan Cowboy Triplets
Tina LeonardHis Callahan Destiny? Tighe Callahan is wild and free as the wind, until he starts chasing the beautiful River Martin. After he catches herin a midnight seduction he'll never ...
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Harlequin American Romance February 2015 Box Set
Tina Leonard, Cathy Gillen Thacker, Donna Alward & Pamela BrittonHarlequin American Romance brings you four new allAmerican romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin American Romance bundle includes The Twins' Rodeo Rider by US...
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Branded by a Callahan
Tina LeonardSettle Down, Cowboy!Marriage isn't in Dante Callahan's shortterm plans. But Ana St. John is! After the gorgeous nanny bodyguardand woman of his fantasiesturns the tables and seduce...
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Sweet Texas Surprise
Tina LeonardMULTIPLE COMPLICATIONSSweet Callahan HomecomingAshlyn Callahan has always known she would bring danger to Rancho Diablo. That’s why she runs from the cowboy she loves to hide out i...
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His Valentine Triplets
Tina LeonardYou could knock Rafe Callahan over with a feather. He and the very prim, very proper Judge Julie Jenkins are having triplets! Rafe doesn't expect their precious news to end the bad...
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Cowboys and Babies Bundle
Cathy Gillen Thacker, Tina Leonard & Cathy McDavidFor the first time in one volume, six beloved western romance stories from USA Today bestselling author Tina Leonard, Cathy Gillen Thacker and Cathy McDavid!More Than Expected by T...
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Catching Calhoun
Tina LeonardCatch of a LifetimeThe only good things she'd ever gotten from a cowboy were her daughter and her son. And rodeo gypsy Olivia Spinlove had vowed she'd never again let an elusive, s...
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Christmas in Texas
Tina Leonard & Rebecca WintersTexas Tough…And Christmas TenderChristmas Baby BlessingsTina LeonardRanger Seagal West is back in Bridesmaids Creek, Texas, on bodyguard duty with his soontobe ex, Capri Snow. And ...
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Harlequin American Romance April 2014 Bundle
Tina Leonard, Rebecca Winters, Roz Denny Fox & Pamela BrittonHarlequin American Romance brings you four new allAmerican romances for one great price, available now! This Harlequin American Romance bundle includes Sweet Callahan Homecoming by...
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The Renegade Cowboy Returns
Tina Leonard"If You're Selling Something, I'm Not Buying, Cowboy."They weren't the warmest words of welcome for Gage Phillips, who's just been named overseer of Dark Diablo ranch. On top of th...
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Harlequin American Romance November 2013 Bundle
Tina Leonard, Cathy McDavid, Marie Ferrarella & Pamela BrittonHarlequin American Romance brings you four new allAmerican romances for one great price, available now for a limited time only from November 1 to November 30! This Harlequin Americ...
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Her Callahan Family Man
Tina LeonardA Callahan And A CashForever? Sawyer Cash pregnant? With twins? The fieryhaired bodyguard who had secretly shared Jace Callahan's bed just rocked his world. The only sol...