Previously, she believed she had a significant amount of Native American ancestry. Henry Louis Gates, he shared her genealogical DNA test estimates, which were predominantly African, approximately 33% European, and only 1% Native American.
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When she participated in the PBS series African American Lives 2 with Dr. The family lived in 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 with her family at an early age. Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee, the youngest daughter of Zelma Priscilla (née Currie) and Floyd Richard Bullock.
She is the first black artist and first female to be on the cover of Rolling Stone. She has received 12 Grammy Awards, which include eight competitive awards, three Grammy Hall of Fame awards, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. Having sold over 100 million records worldwide, Turner is one of the best-selling recording artists of all time. In 2018, she became the subject of the jukebox musical Tina. In 2009, Turner retired after completing her Tina!: 50th Anniversary Tour, which is the 15th highest-grossing tour of the 2000s. In 1993, What's Love Got to Do with It, a biopic adapted from her autobiography I, Tina: My Life Story, was released. Turner also acted in the films Tommy (1975), Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome (1985), and Last Action Hero (1993). During her Break Every Rule World Tour in 1988, she set a then- Guinness World Record for the largest paying audience (180,000) for a solo performer. 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". At age 44, she was the oldest female solo artist to top the Hot 100. Her 1984 multi-platinum album Private Dancer contained the hit song " What's Love Got to Do with It", which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year and became her first and only number one song on the Billboard Hot 100. In the 1980s, Turner launched "one of the greatest comebacks in music history". They released hits such as " It's Gonna Work Out Fine", " River Deep – Mountain High", " Proud Mary", and " Nutbush City Limits" before disbanding in 1976. The duo Ike & Tina Turner became "one of the most formidable live acts in history". In 1960, she debuted as Tina Turner with the hit duet single " A Fool in Love". Under the name Little Ann, she appeared on her first record, " Boxtop", in 1958. Turner began her career with Ike Turner's Kings of Rhythm in 1957. Widely referred to as the " Queen of Rock 'n' Roll", she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike and Tina Turner Revue before launching a successful career as a solo performer. Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer and actress.
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