She was the girl who began singing while picking cotton in the fields whose amazing voice and dancing would make her a legend.
But becoming Tina Turner came at a cost. She has had to survive an abusive husband, her eldest child taking his own life and her own suicide attempt.
She also had to cope with a stroke, kidney failure and intestinal cancer. But the singer, who turned 81 last month, insists of the trials she has faced: “I wouldn’t change a thing. “I embrace the entirety of my life’s journey.
Each part has contributed to me becoming who I am today, and I’m very happy now.” Speaking from her home in Lake Zurich, Switzerland, a villa she shares with her husband Erwin Bach, 64, Tina says: “There were a number of difficult experiences
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