Tina Turner Net Worth: From Music To Real Estate
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Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock & Roll,’ is boosting her net worth with a brand-new $76 million estate on Lake Zurich, Switzerland.
The powerhouse songstress and her husband reportedly purchased the land containing ten buildings, a pond, a stream, a swimming pool, and a boat dock earlier this year.
Neighbor’s to tennis legend Roger Federer, Turner’s husband ErwinBach claimed that purchasing the property was the next step the couple wanted to take, adding that “due to the pandemic and its consequences we – like many other Swiss – unfortunately are refraining from travel.”
Turner and her husband have already acquired Swiss nationality and bought a 260,000-square-foot property in the village of Staefa back in September 2021.
This figure is extraordinary to the regular person casually browsing real estate, but to an icon like Turner, it is a solid element of her impressive net worth.
Tina Turner Net Worth – The Early Days
Since her early days as part of the blues group Kings of Rhythm in 1957, Turner has attained a net worth of approximately $250 million.
Although her exact earnings are not known, it is safe to assume that Turner garnered a strong enough reputation to match her popularity with her finances.
In 1957, she and her sister would frequent St. Louis nightclubs in the hopes of discovering new singers and bands.
Turner was impressed by Ike Turner, and his blues and soul group decided to prove to him she deserved a spot on stage.
After an impressive pseudo-audition, Ike decided to help Turner hone her musical skills and introduced her to the music scene as ‘Little Ann.’
Her first record was the single ‘Boxtop,’ in which she was credited as a vocalist alongside Carlson Oliver.
Turner hit her first career milestone in 1960 after Ike Turner penned the single ‘A Fool in Love’ for Art Lassiter.
Unfortunately, Lassiter failed to show up for the studio recording session. Ike, who initially planned to participate as part of backing vocals, recorded a demo of the song with the intention of swapping Tina out for Lassiter at a later date.
A local DJ, Dave Dixon, convinces Ike to send the demo to the president of Sue Records, who paid them $25,000 for recording and publishing rights to the song.
It was here that Turner decided to change her name, deciding to forgo ‘Ann’ for something that would be a little less common.
Breakthrough in the 1960s
Turner was officially debuted as Tina Turner with the release of ‘A Fool in Love’ in July 1960.
The song was launched to number 2 on the Hot R&B Sides chart and 27 on the Billboard Hot 100 immediately upon release.
After ‘It’s Gonna Work Out Fine’ peaked at second on the charts, she and Ike were nominated for their first Grammy for Best Rock and Roll Performance in 1961.
By this point, Ike had realized that Turner needed something to enhance her stage persona and formed a girl group known as the Ikettes who toured around the country with the couple.
Turner’s first credit as a solo artist was on the single ‘Too Many Ties That Bind/We Need an Understanding’ in 1964, released by Ike’s label, Sonja Records.
In the late 1970s, the relationship between Ike and Turner went South swiftly. Ike, who was a well-known drug addict, would often physically beat his wife.
Ike signed a $150,000 per year deal with Cream Records in 1976, after which he and Turner had to fly to Dallas for a performance.
The couple was involved in an altercation at their Dallas Hotel, after which Turner fled to a friend’s house.
Although the two divorced in 1978, they had two albums released during their most turbulent years.
Tina Turner: Solo Artist
While she credits Ike with her initial success, the world sees Turner as a performer in her own right.
She spent much of the late 70s and early 80s building a brand for herself, performing on television and various clubs to work out what kind of music she wanted to offer.
Her luck changed in 1983, when Turner released a cover of Al Green’s ‘Let’s Stay Together.’ The song proved to be successful enough for Capitol Records to greenlight Turner’s first solo album.
She released Private Dancer in May 1964 to critical acclaim, selling 10 million copies around the globe.
The album’s second single, ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It,’ is credited as the song that truly made Tina Turner.
‘What’s Love Got to Do with It’ is the only Tina Turner song to make it to number one on the Billboard charts, and earned her three trophies at the Grammys that year.
Acting Roles
Tina Turner net worth is not solely the product of her music career but is also largely made up of her work on screen.
She retired from live performances in 2009 decided to focus on other ventures.
Her biggest project has been the Adrienne Warren-led biographical musical Tina, which premiered on London’s West End in April 2018.
The show was transferred to Broadway, where Warren was awarded a Tony Award for her portrayal of Turner.
Turner has appeared in films over the years, most notably Mel Gibson’s post-apocalyptic film Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome and Tommy (1975).
Gibson’s film grossed $36 million in the United States, with Turner’s performance being well-recieved by audiences and critics.
Present-Day Endeavors
Turner sold the rights to her music to BMG Rights Management in October 2021, earning $50 million from the deal.
She also received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018 and came out of retirement in 2020 to collaborate with Kygo on a remixed version of ‘What’s Love Got to Do with It,’ for which she became the first artist to have a top 40 hit in seven decades in the United Kingdom.
Recently, she and her husband decided to relocate to Switzerland in 2013, and their recent real estate purchases have proven that Turner hopes to remain there for the remainder of her life.
VIDEO: Meet TINA’s Pint-Sized Powerhouse, Skye Dakota Turner
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A new Broadway year has officially begun and BroadwayWorld is excited kick off 2022 with exclusive interviews with our brand new correspondent, Candace Cordelia. Below, watch as Candace checks in with a small (but mighty) Tina Turner- Skye Dakota Turner, who plays Young Anna Mae in Tina: The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway.
“There is a lot of surface-level things that a lot of Tina Turner fans know [about her]. But there is not a lot known about her as a child and in her teenage years before she started performing,” explained Skye about how she prepared to take on the role. “Getting to know her backstory and all of the things that she went through… I think it’s really inspiring that she still came out on top and that she is still the queen of rock & roll.”
“I feel lucky to be in this business,” she continued. “I know a lot of people who want to do what I’m doing right now and I’m really happy that I could make it work!”
Check out the full interview below!
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URBAN ONE HONORS PRESENTS: Tina Turner–The Legend Of A Strong Black Woman
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When we think of strong black women, so many names come to mind – Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison, Angela Davis and also Tina Turner. After 20 years of trauma at the hands of her spouse and creative partner, Turner transformed her life and became one of the world’s biggest superstars.
Many of us can recite lines from the film What’s Love Got to Do with It, which was loosely based on Tina Turner’s life. What might be less known is that she held the Guinness World Record for the largest audience at a single concert and that she is the first artist to have a UK top 40 hit in seven consecutive decades. Tina Turner is widely known as the Queen of Rock and Roll, a title deserving of a singer who helped transform the musical genre. Before there was Janet Jackson and Beyonce, there was Tina Turner. And the story in the film starring Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne is just part of the entirety of her epic tale.
Though Turner’s story is atypical, as she eventually became a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee and has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, her beginnings were humble. She recalls picking cotton in the fields, her father was an overseer of sharecroppers and like many black women, she worked as a domestic cleaning houses. She found herself in the same cycle that her mother had been in, as a victim of domestic violence. Similarly, her mother freed herself from an abusive environment. The relatability of her story to scores of nameless black women is testament to her determination, strength, and resilience. Though we know Tuner as a survivor of domestic violence by the hands of her former husband Ike Turner, she cannot be defined solely as such.
Turner is one who took matters into her own hands and fought back against not only a single man but an industry that doesn’t respect black women as much as they should. While still in high school, she took control of her destiny by having the courage to grab the mic at an Ike Turner performance and sang without anyone else’s permission. This act of bravery landed her the role of the lead singer with Ike Turner’s band. The strong Black woman in Turner allowed her to leave a man whom she cared for deeply because of his contributions in her life and career.
Story continues
The true test of her resilience is what happened after she decided to leave. Ike Turner had trademarked and given her the name Tina Turner because he wanted to be able to replace her with another Tina Turner if the original decided to leave. In their divorce she was sure to maintain the name she had worked so hard for. She built a career as a superstar with a name that people were familiar with but also one that she needed to transform. She worked diligently performing in smaller shows in Las Vegas hotel ballrooms to pay back the debts she had from canceled shows with Ike. In 1984, she released her solo album Private Dancer that went 5x platinum in the U.S. alone.
Turner spent 20 years with Ike Turner, but more importantly she spent about 30 years existing at the top of the musical landscape. And her legacy is still being celebrated, as she came out of retirement in 2020 to remix her classic, “What’s Love Got to Do with It.” Though coming into her solo career she had name recognition, Turner reinvented herself and her sound at the age of 44. It takes a strong woman to do that in an industry that tends to fetishize women as naive sexual objects. Turner fashioned herself into a well-respected superstar with the likes of other rock and roll legends like Mick Jagger and Bono of U2. The music she has produced as a solo artist is rock and roll at its finest; it wreaks of self-determination and rebellion.
Tina Turner is the epitome of the Strong Black Woman (SBW) Joan Morgan describes in her text When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost. Morgan writes, “When you’re raised to believe that the ability to kick adversity’s ass is a birthright – a by-product of gender and melanin – you tend to tackle life’s afflictions tenaciously.” Turner’s story really is like witnessing someone kicking adversity’s ass. And there really isn’t any solid proof that it’s because she’s a black woman that she got it done; but it is because she’s a black woman that she experienced life as she did. The way she dealt with her circumstances is atypical. Most women who have undergone trauma don’t go on to be worldwide superstars. She didn’t crumble under the pressures of a man who helped her become who she is but also abused her. And she didn’t rescind the personality that she also built. She fought to be what she was meant to be – a legend.
It shouldn’t be necessary to be as strong as Tina Turner is, but so many black women have proven time and again that so many of us are capable of rising to the occasion.
Bee Gees, Tina Turner documentaries to stream on HBO Go
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MANILA — Documentaries about the lives of hitmakers Tina Turner and Bee Gees have started streaming Thursday on HBO Go.
HBO Asia announced that “The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart”, “Tina,” and the induction of Turner, Carole King, The Go-Go’s, JAY-Z, Foo Fighters, and Todd Rundgren at the 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will be available on the streaming platform for the coming weeks.
“The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend A Broken Heart” pays tribute to the iconic trio of brothers Barry, Maurice, and Robin Gibb “as they found fame in the 1960s, reinvented themselves in the disco era of the 1970s, and continued to compose musical hits for decades in a prolific career that includes 20 chart-topping hits and over 1,000 songs that continue to inspire musicians of today.”
“The film features revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice, together with a wealth of never-before-seen archival footage of recording sessions, concert performances, TV appearances, home videos, and recollections from musicians like Eric Clapton, Noel Gallagher, Nick Jonas, Chris Martin, and Justin Timberlake,” HBO Asia said.
“Tina,” on the other hand, follows Turner’s story of “trauma and survival” that gave way to rebirth as the record-breaking queen of rock ‘n’ roll.
“Follow her early fame, the private and public personal and professional struggles, and her return to the world stage as a global phenomenon in the 1980s with a wealth of never-before-seen footage, audiotapes, personal photos, and new interviews, including with the singer herself,” HBO said.
Meanwhile, on its 36th year, the 2021 Induction Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, will welcome Turner, King, The Go-Go’s, JAY-Z, Foo Fighters, and Rundgren, who will be inducted by Angela Bassett, Taylor Swift, Drew Barrymore and Sir Paul McCartney.
It will also be the second induction for King, who was previously inducted with Gerry Goffin in 1990; Turner, who was previously inducted with Ike Turner in 1991; and Dave Grohl of Foo Fighters, who was previously inducted with Nirvana in 2014.
The annual event, which “honors artists who have made significant contributions to the industry, from their musical influence on other artists to the length of their career and the depth of their body of work,” will also include performances by Christina Aguilera, Mickey Guyton, H.E.R., Bryan Adams, Taylor Swift and Jennifer Hudson.
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