Great live artist, the singer was evolving from soul to rock, conquering growing audiences. Born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939, she abandoned her life in rural South Tennessee when she settled with her mother in St.

Louis, Missouri. She met Ike Turner, the leader of the Kings of Rhythm, with whom he began to sing. Ike was a veteran who subsisted in a hard business, always on the border with illegality; he understood that there was a vein in Tina's interpretive fierceness and made her his wife in 1962.