Tina Turner was an American singer, songwriter, and actress. After skyrocketing to fame with her husband Ike Turner on the strength of such classics as 1966’s River Deep - Mountain High and a rousing, Grammy-winning 1971 cover of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s Proud Mary, the "Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll" truly broke out on her own in 1984 with her blockbuster fifth solo studio album, Private Dancer. It won three Grammy Awards for its hit singles What’s Love Got to Do With It and Better Be Good To Me. She took home another Grammy the next year for One For The Living, off the soundtrack for the 1985 film Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome, in which she co-starred with Mel Gibson. (The film also yielded the smash We Don’t Need Another Hero).

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Turner went on to sell out stadiums around the world and release successful studio albums (Break Every Rule, Foreign Affair, Wildest Dreams) and singles, including The Best and I Don't Want To Fight, from the soundtrack to the 1993 film What’s Love Got To Do With It, based on her life (as were a 2018 musical and 2021 documentary, both titled Tina). She was a 2005 recipient of the Kennedy Center Honors and was twice inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame—with Ike in 1991 and as a solo artist in 2021, two years before her death in 2023 at age 83.