Tina Turner is an American-born Swiss singer and actress. Widely referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike and Tina Turner before launching a successful career as a solo performer. Turner began her career with Ike Turner’s Kings of Rhythm in 1957.

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Tina Turner husband

She was married to Ike Turner for 16 years until they divorced in 1978. The couple had two biological sons and Tina adopted two of Ike’s other children and raised them as her own.

Tragically, Craig Turner was found dead in June 2018 when he was 59 years old.

Tina has been in a relationship with German-born Erwin Bach since 1986 when he was sent by record label EMI to collect the star at Heathrow Airport.

After 27 years together, Tina and Erwin married in a civil ceremony on the banks of Lake Zurich in Switzerland in July 2013.

Tina Turner children

She had two biological sons, Craig Raymond Turner (with Raymond Hill) and Ronald Renelle Turner, referred to as Ronnie (with Ike Turner). She also adopted two of Ike Turner’s children, Ike Turner Jr. (born October 3, 1958) and Michael Turner (born February 23, 1960), raising them as her own. She was 18 years of age when she gave birth to her eldest son, who was born Raymond Craig Hill on August 20, 1958. His biological father was Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill.

Tina Turner parents

Tina’s birth name is Anna Mae Bullock, she was born on the 26th of November 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee. She is the youngest daughter of Zelma Priscilla her mother and Floyd Richard Bullock her father. The family lived within the nearby rural unincorporated community of Nutbush, Tennessee, where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180; she later recalled picking cotton together with her family at an early age.

Tina Turner siblings

She had two older sisters, Evelyn Juanita Currie and Ruby Alline Bullock. As young children, the three sisters were separated when their parents relocated to Knoxville, Tennessee, to work at a defense facility during World War II. As a lass, she sang within the church choir at Nutbush’s Spring Hill Baptist Church.

She has an estimated net worth of $250 million.

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