reported that the icon had suffered a number of health issues in recent years, including cancer, a stroke, and kidney failure.
Born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, Turner rose to fame alongside ex-husband Ike Turner in the 1960s with hits like “River Deep, Mountain High” and “Proud Mary.” The Turners—amidst Ike’s rampant abuse—divorced in 1978, and Turner went on to find evenTurner was inducted into the Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame in 2021 as a solo artist, after first being inducted in 1991 alongside her ex-husband. She won eight Grammy Awards.
Turner married a second time in 2013 to German music executive Erwin Bac, who she began dating in the 1980s. They lived in Switzerland, and he donated a kidney to her in 2017 after it was discovered she was suffering from kidney failure. Her life is memorialized in the 1993 biopicstarring Angela Bassett, and Tina: The Musical on stage. She was also the subject of the 2021 HBO documentary“People think my life has been tough, but I think it’s been a wonderful journey,” she toldin 2018.