Tina Turner’s fiercely dramatic, profoundly painful and wildly successful life unfolds on stage in “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.”
Zurin Villanueva as Tina Turner in the North American touring production of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.”
Tina’s innate gifts as a performer were evident from childhood when she sang in her Baptist church — and this was despite the fact her ebullient spirit and talent were continually shut down by her mother, who escaped a violent marriage and left her daughter with her grandmother at the age of 11. Tina was hardly welcomed by her mother when she later joined her in St. Louis. But it was there that Tina first saw Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm band at a nightclub. And in 1958, she boldly took hold of a microphone and wowed him with her voice. The rest is history — and a great deal of it is brutal, as he clearly envied her success, beat her, seduced countless other women and fell into a cocaine addiction.
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