Tina Turner s Death and Final video Before Death Will Make You Cry

Tina Turner, the Americanborn singer who left a hardscrabble farming community and abusive relationship to become one of the top recording artists of all time, died on Wednesday at the age of 83. She died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, her representative said. Turner began her career in the 1950s during the early years of rock n roll and evolved into an MTV phenomenon. In the video for her charttopping song What s Love Got to Do with It, in which she called love a secondhand emotion, Turner epitomized 1980s style as she strutted through New York City streets with her spiky blond hair, wearing a cropped jean jacket, mini skirt and stiletto heels. With her taste for musical experimentation and bluntly worded ballads, Turner gelled perfectly with a 1980s pop landscape in which music fans valued electronically produced sounds and scorned hippieera idealism. Turner won six of her eig