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Name: Turner, Tina
Profession: Musician
Category: African-American Experience, Cultural Life
Born/Started: 1939
Description: Tina Turner is a singer and an actor who has won three Grammy awards and was inducted into the Rock ´n Roll Hall of Fame. Turner moved to St. Louis when she was sixteen and attended Sumner High School. She and her husband, Ike, created the Ike and Tina Turner Revue in 1960. Their popular songs included "A Fool in Love," "Proud Mary," and "What´s Love Got To Do With It." After 17 years, Tina divorced Ike and started a solo career. Her autobiography is titled, I, Tina: My Life Story.
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