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“Colegiul Mihai Eminescu” Bacau Lucrare pentru obtinerea atestatului de competente lingvistice la Limba Engleza Tina Turner Profesor Coordonator, Elev, Toma Gabriela Paveluc Anca Elena Clasa a XII-a E 1

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Page 1: Tina Turner

“Colegiul Mihai Eminescu” Bacau

Lucrare pentru obtinerea atestatului de competente lingvistice la

Limba Engleza

Tina Turner

Profesor Coordonator, Elev,

Toma Gabriela Paveluc Anca Elena

Clasa a XII-a E

-2013-

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Content Table

1.1 Biography………………………………………………3

1.2 Ike and Tina Turner …………………………………..5

1.3 Solo carrer ……………………………………………..7

1.4 Awards …………………………………………………10

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1.1 Biography

Real name is Anna Mae Bullock and born at November 26, 1939, known by her stage name  Tina Turner, is a singer, dancer, actress, and author, whose career has spanned more than half a century, earning her widespread recognition and numerous awards. Born and raised in South America ,now she lives in Switzerland and now is an Swiss citizen.

Tina’s parents were Zelma Priscilla and Floyd Richard Bullock. Anna was born at Poindexter Farm where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecopper.  She had an older sister, Ruby Aillene.

As young children, Anna Mae and Aillene were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville Tennessess to do work at a defense during World War 2. Anna went to stay with her strict, religious paternal grandparents, Alex and Roxanna Bullock, who were deacon and deaconess at the Woodlawn Missionary Baptist Church.  After the war, the sisters reunited with their parents and moved with them to Knoxville, Tennessee. Two years later, the family returned to Nutbush to live in the Flagg Grove community, where Anna attended Flagg Grove Elementary School from first through eighth grade. As a youngster, Anna sang in the church choir at Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church. When she was eleven, her mother ran off without warning, seeking freedom from the abusive relationship with Floyd Bullock.  Zelma relocated to St. Louis to live wit her aunt Anna Mae. When Anna (Tina) was 13, her father married another woman, and moved to Detroit. She and her sister were sent to live with their grandmother Georgeanna in Brownsville. She later stated in her memoir “I,Tina” that she felt her mother had not loved her and that she “wasn’t wanted”.

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When she was 16, her grandmother died suddenly. After the funeral, Anna went to live with her mother in St. Louis, Missouri, where she was reunited with her sister. There,

she graduated from Summer High School in 1958. After her graduation, she worked as

a nurse’s aide at Barnes-Jewish Hospital, and dreamed of becoming a nurse. She began her musical career in the mid 1950 as a featured singer with Ike Turner’s

who sang in that time in a band named  Kings of Rhythm. First recording in 1958 was under the name “Little Ann”. Her introduction to the public as Tina Turner began in 1960

as a member of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue. Success followed with a string of notable hits credited to the duo, including “River Deep – Mountain High” (1966),

“Proud Mary” (1971) and “Nutbush City Limits” (1973). Raised as a Baptist , she melded her faith with Buddism in 1974, crediting the religion and its spiritual chant  of

Nam Myoho Renge Kyo for helping her to endure during difficult times

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1.2 Ike and Tina Turner

Anna and her sister began to frequent nightclubs in the St. Louis.  At Club Manhattan, a nightclub in the East St. Louis area, she first saw Ike Turner and his band the Kings Rhythm perform. Though not taken by his looks, she later said she was impressed by the music and Ike's talent, claiming the bandleader's music put her "into a trance". Noticing that women volunteered to sing with Ike, she felt the urge to get on stage, despite the fact that Ike was not serious about allowing female singers in his band. One night in 1957, the Kings of Rhythm drummer Gene Washington pulled out a microphone from his drum set to the table where Anna and her sister Aillene were sharing. After Aillene rejected the microphone, Anna took it and began singing while the rest of the band was inintermission. Stunned by her voice, Ike left his piano and asked her if she knew other songs. By the end of the night, she was singing lead for the band's performance. Soon afterwards, Ike invited her to join the band full-time. 

He taught her the points of voice control and performance. Her first studio recording was in 1958, singing background, under the name "Little Ann”. In 1959, Ike wrote a song for male vocalist Art Lassiter. When Lassiter failed to show up for the recording session for the song, Ike, who had booked expensive studio time, asked Anna to sing a "dummy vocal", with the intention of erasing her vocals and adding Lassiter's at a later date. Although some felt that the demo with Anna's voice was "high pitched" and "screechy", the song received decent air-time in St. Louis.  Local St. Louis, Dj Dave Dixon convinced Ike to send the tape to Juggy Murray, president of R&B label, Sue Record.Murray was impressed with Anna's vocals, later stating that her vocals.  Murray bought the track and paid Ike a $25,000 advance for recording and publishing rights. Murray also convinced Turner to make Anna “the star of the show". It was that Ike Turner renamed Anna Mae Bullock "Tina”.

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The early carrer begin with the song "A Fool in Love" which became an immediate hit after its release reaching on the Hot R&B Sides chart by August 1960 on #27 . The song was described by Kurt Loder  years later as "the blackest record to ever creep into the white pop charts  Their second pop hit, "It's Gonna Work Out Fine", was released a year later, where it peaked at #14 on the Hot 100 and later won the duo their first Grammy Award nomination for Best Rock and Roll Performance.

Other hit singles the duo scored during this early period included the top ten R&B singles, "I Idolize You", "Poor Fool" and "Tra-La-La-La".  

After Ike changed her name Anna to Tina and the succed began soon they married in Tijuana in 1962 while Ike was married with other women in that time but they describe their marriage as less as ideal. The Turners continued to make

pop hits into the late 1960’s and opened for the Rolling Stones on their 1969 tour. They were especially successful into the early 1970’s with steamy covers such as "Come Together" "I Want to Take You Higher" and "Proud Mary". After a tumultuous relationship, which she has since desribed as being marked by physical and emotional abuse, Tina left Ike in 1976. Around the time Tina left him, Ike Turner retired to his studio and released two solo LPs. The studio was destroyed by fire in 1982.

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1.3 Solo Carrer

After her divorce from Ike Tina continuing to sing in small clubs in Los Angeles.  Later in 1978, United Artists released Turner's third solo album  Rough, with distribution both in North America and Europe with EMI. The record failed to chart as well as her follow-up album  Love Explosion, which included a brief diversion to discorhythms. The albums completed Turner's contract with United Artists/EMI and Tina left the label without renewing the contract. Continuing to perform in small clubs with her cabaret styled act, Turner spent most of 1978 and 1979 on the road promoting her  Wild Lady of Rock 'n' Roll  tour, where she continued to be a successful live act even without a hit record.

In 1981, at The Ritz in New York City, Tina had performed with Rod Stewart, first on Saturday Night Live and then on several dates of his U.S. tour. Following this, Tina opened three shows for The Rolling Stones. In both tours, Turner gained recognition for her success as a live performer. A year later, Tina Turner recorded the song "Let's Stay Together." Later the same year, Tina released her first solo hit, "What's Love Got To Do With It." This song was number one on the "Billboard Hot 100 chart ", and it held its place for three straight weeks. Later that same year, Tina released an album titled, "Private Dancer " when Tina won a platinum award.

( Tina Turner’s

performance during a concert in 1985 )

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The following year, 1985, was also a boon time for this sexy, talented singer. Tina

Turner started out the year by winning not one, but two American Music Awards. She

then won three Grammy Awards. Two of the awards were for Record of the Year and

Best Vocal Performance on "What's Love Got To Do With It ”. The third Grammy was

for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance on the song, "Better Be Good To Me".

Following her recording successes, in June 1985, Tina took to the movie screen where

she starred as "Aunt Entity" in the action movie, "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome."

Tina also recorded two songs for the movie: "We Don't Need Another Hero" and "One

Of The Living." Two months later, Tina Turner's long, illustrious career as a talented

singer, and, as an accomplished actor, was honored when she received a star on

the Hollywood Walk of Fame. And finally, Tina finished the year by winning a "Best

Actress Award. During the next several years, Tina Turner's enormous success grew

as she continued to tour and release songs. Lately in 1985 she released a live duet with

Bryan Adams, “It’s only Me”. In October of 1986, Tina returned with her next solo

album “Break Every Rule” and launching several hit singles as "Typical Male", “Two

People” and “What You Get Is What You See” and sell two million copies in the United

Staes and for million altogether worlwide.

In the same year Tina published her autobiography “I, Tina” where she talked about her

early life and her marriage with Ike Turner which was violent. In September of 1989,

she released her "Foreign Affair" album which . contain the greatest hit of her carrer

“Simply the Best”. Two months later, in November, the album was certified as being a

gold album. In October of 1991, her album titled "Simply The Best" which was a

collection of Tina Turner hits, was released.

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1.4 Awards

American Music Awards

1985 won the award for Favorite Soul/R&B Female Artist and Favorite Pop/Rock Female Artist

Billboard Music Awards

1986 won for Album of the Year (“Private Dancer”), Song of the Year (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”) and Singer of the Year

Tina Turner was nominated at 21 Grammy Awards sections and has won 8 Grammys.

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1972 won for Best Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal with the song “Proud Mary”

1985 won for Record of the Year, Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (“What’s Love Got to Do with It”), Best Female Rock

Vocal Performance (“Better Be Good to Me”) 1986 won the award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance (“One

of the Living”) 1987 for the song “Back Where You Started”, the Best Female Rock

Vocal Performance 1989 Best Female Rock Vocal Performance

2008 won the award for Album of the Year with “River:The Joni Letters”

MTV Video Music Awards 1985 “What’s Love Got to Do with It” – Best Female Video

1986 “It’s Only Love” (with Bryan Adams) – Best Stage Performance in a Video

Tina has her own star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame and the Sf. Louis Walk of Fame.

Source

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner

http://www.biography.com/people/tina-turner-9512276

http://www.tina-turner.nl/biography.htm

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