CHARACTERS
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
A thunderbolt rips through the music world: the great Tina Turner, one of the most talented, long-lived and influential performers in music history, has passed away at the age of 83 after a long illness.
With a career spanning more than half a century, spanning from the 1960s to the 2000s, she was dubbed 'The Queen of Rock and Roll'. In 1991 she was inducted together with her ex-husband Ike Turner into the 'Rock and Roll Hall of Fame', and in 1967 she was the first African-American artist and the first woman to appear on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' magazine
Her life has been studded with events, successes, dramas, downfalls, upturns and much more. During a career spanning more than half a century, Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock, Brownsville, 26 November 1939) has sold more than 180 million albums and won 12 Grammy Awards.
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
Un fulmine squarcia il mondo della musica: la grande Tina Turner, una delle interpreti più talentuose, longeve e influenti della storia della musica, si è spenta all'età di 83 anni dopo una lunga malattia nella sua casa di Zurigo. Con una carriera di oltre mezzo secolo, dagli anni Sessanta agli anni Duemila, è stata soprannominata "la regina del rock and roll". Nel 1991 è stata inserita insieme all'ex marito Ike Turner nella "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame" e nel 1967 è stata la prima artista afroamericana e la prima donna ad apparire sulla copertina della rivista "Rolling Stone".
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
Her life has been studded with events, successes, dramas, downfalls, upturns and more. During a career spanning more than half a century, Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock, Brownsville, 26 November 1939) has sold more than 180 million albums and won 12 Grammy Awards.
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
In 1988 she was the first to break a world record. Thanks to her 'Break Every Rule Tour', she performed at the Maracana, Rio de Janeiro, in front of 184,000 people. At the time, it was the largest audience in the world present at a concert.
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
Tina Turner's life has also been punctuated by more or less serious health problems. In 2013, three weeks after her marriage to Erwin Bach, she suffered a stroke and had to undergo a long period of rehabilitation to learn to walk again. In 2016, however, she was diagnosed with intestinal cancer.
Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
Her actual career in music began in 1956 when she met Ike Turner (her future husband), with whom she recorded the song 'Boxtop' in 1958, which marked her recording debut. She initially used the pseudonym Little Ann. Only in 1960, with the single 'A Fool in Love', did she officially become known as Tina Turner. From there she climbed the international charts.
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Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
A few years ago, his son Craig, who was almost a teenager from an earlier dramatic relationship with Ike Turner, committed suicide at the age of 59. The last blow in a life full of drama.
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Curiosities you may not know about Tina Turner's extraordinary life
In December 2005, she was awarded the Kennedy Center Honours for her art performances, joining a small circle of artists that also included Aretha Franklin, Ray Charles, Little Richard and Chuck Berry.
Rankings
21/09/2023
The well-known US magazine Rolling Stone in 2021 has updated the list of the 500 most beautiful songs of all time.
The ranking was first published on December 11, 2003 and was compiled by a jury chosen by the editorial staff, composed of 172 musicians, music critics and experts in the recording industry. Subsequently, the ranking was changed twice: the first in 2010, the second in 2021, when 254 songs that were previously not present were added.
Obviously, there is nothing more subjective than music: these songs are considered the best according to the criteria defined by Rolling Stonemagazine, but each of us has his own personal ranking of the best songs ever. Here, however, is the Top 20 of Rolling Stone.
Rankings
19/09/2023
In 2008, 'Rolling Stone' compiled a list of the 100 best singers of all time.
This ranking was compiled 15 years ago by 180 people, including several musicians (e.g. Bruce Springsteen, Rod Stewart, Justin Timberlake, George Michael, Keith Richards), journalists and music experts.
On 1 January 2023, however, 'Rolling Stone' published an update of the ranking that revolutionised the list, especially with regard to the Top Ten. As the well-known US magazine was keen to point out, this ranking does not only take into account technical and vocal abilities (it is not a list of the best voices of all time), but also the originality of the vocal timbre, the record catalogue, the writing ability and the musical legacy of the singers in question. Here are the top 20 positions.