Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, United States) is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She has won eight Grammy Awards. Turner's consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title "The Queen of Rock & Roll".[1][2] Besides rock music, she has also performed R&B, soul, dance and pop music.
Turner has been acknowledged as one of the world's most popular and biggest-selling music artists of all time and is the most successful female rock artist of all time[3]with record sales exceeding 180 million.[4] She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history.[5] To date, Turner has 7 Billboard top 10 singles,[6] 16 US top ten R&B singles, and over 20 Top 40 hits in the UK.[7]
Turner's world tour Break Every Rule had record breaking ticket sales, visited by over four million fans. Turner also beat out The Rolling Stones by touring Europe with 121 shows during her sold out Foreign Affair Tour in 1990. She ended up playing to four million people in just six months. hers 1996 Wildest Dreams Tour was performed to 3.5 million people over 250 dates through 2 years. Tina Turners shows did attract more ticket buying public. Her most recent tour was 2000's "Twenty Four Seven Millennium Tour". It was the highest grossing tour of the year.
The popular press has referred to Turner favorably as "the truest rock diva of all,"[8] "soul's first real diva,"[9] "the most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music,"[10] and "one of soul music's most incendiary performers."[9] Turner is known for her "energetic" stage presence and "long, well-proportioned legs."[11][12]
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