Tina.
The name clicks.
This is the title of the new documentary broadcast last weekend on the American channel HBO and greeted with a concert of praise.
It is also the first name given by the demiurge Ike Turner to the one he has long considered to be his exclusive creature.
Born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush (Tennessee), 70 kilometers from Memphis in 1939, the singer fought like a lioness to keep this pseudonym after her divorce.
If she let go of the one who had in the meantime become her executioner all the exploitation of their joint work, Tina Turner was keen to keep this name in her new life.
The one who would see her triumph, far from the frustrated musician who owed her so much.
“I haven't had a good life.
In any case, the best did not win out over the worst ”
Tina turner
It is through this two-hour documentary, produced by his companion since 1986, Erwin Bach, that the star has chosen to bid his public farewell.
Only a handful of years after a new autobiography (at Harper & Collins).
"My life was not very like me" she
begins
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