TINA TURNER: QUEEN OF ROCK AND ROLL - QUICK FACTS

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Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer and actress
Often referred to as "The Queen of Rock and Roll", she is considered one of the greatest singers of all time. She is famous for her "swagger, sensuality, gravelly vocals and unstoppable energy", along with her career longevity and her famous legs
She previously held a Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000 in 1988) for a solo performer
At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the 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". During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988
She is the first black artist and first female 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's success continued when she traveled to Australia to star opposite Mel Gibson in the 1985 post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
The movie provided her with her first acting role in ten years; she portrayed the glamorous Aunty Entity, the ruler of Bartertown. Upon release, critical response to her performance was generally positive
Journalist Kurt Loder asserted that Turner's voice combined "the emotional force of the great blues singers with a sheer, wallpaper-peeling power that seemed made to order for the age of amplification"