Sunday, January 13, 2008

5. Tina Turner

Taken From Wikipedia

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939 in Nutbush, Tennessee, United States) is a singer, songwriter, dancer, and actress. She has won eight Grammy Awards Turner’s consistent contributions to rock music have earned her the title The Queen of Rock & Roll. Besides rock music, she has also performed R&B, soul, dance and pop music.

Turner has been acknowledged as one of the world’s most popular and biggest-selling music artists of all time and is the most successful female rock artist of all time with record sales in excess of 180 million. She has sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in history. To date, Turner has 7 Billboard top 10 singles, 16 US top ten R&B singles, and over 20 Top 40 hits in the UK.

The popular press has referred to Turner favorably as the truest rock diva of all, soul’s first real diva, the most dynamic female soul singer in the history of the music, and one of soul music’s most incendiary performers. Turner is known for her energetic stage presence, vocals, rock concerts, as well as for her long, well-proportioned legs.

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