SWITZERLAND: One of the most successful musical artists of all time, Turner is best known for her hits What's Love Got to Do with It and (Simply) The Best. Her publicist Bernard Doherty announced in a statement that she passed away quietly at her home in Küsnacht, Switzerland, close to Zurich, following a protracted illness.
Turner embodied 1980s fashion in the music video for her number-one single "What's Love Got to Do with It," in which she referred to love as a "second-hand emotion," as she walked through the streets of New York City with her spiky blond hair, a cropped jean jacket, a little skirt, and stiletto heels.
Turner fits in perfectly with the 1980s pop scene, which valued electronically created sounds and ridiculed hippie-era idealism. She had a love for musical experimentation and wrote simply phrased ballads.
Turner, who was referred to as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll," received six of her eight Grammy nominations in the 1980s. Twelve of her tracks, including "Typical Male," "The Best," "Private Dancer," and "Better Be Good to Me," reached the Top 40 throughout that decade. 180,000 people attended her performance in Rio de Janeiro in 1988, which is still one of the biggest concert crowds for a single musician.
Turner had been divorced from musician Ike Turner for ten years by that point. The celebrity was open about the abuse she endured from her ex-husband while they were married and working together on rock music in the 1960s and 1970s. She detailed many injuries that frequently sent her to the emergency room, including damaged eyes, busted lips, a broken jaw, and others.
When Turner first gained notoriety as a survivor, it was in 1985. She co-starred with Mel Gibson in "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," the third entry in the Mad Max trilogy, playing the cruel leader of an outpost amid a nuclear wasteland.
The majority of Turner's top hits were written by others, but she brought life to them with a voice that New York Times music critic Jon Pareles called "one of the more peculiar instruments in pop."
The 1993 movie "What's Love Got to Do with It" star Angela Bassett, who played Turner, stated she was "humbled to have helped show her to the world." Bassett was nominated for an Academy Award for the role.
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