Tina Turner died on Wednesday, with her rep telling ET she died peacefully after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.
She was 83.The music icon experienced the highest of highs (from selling more than 100 million records worldwide to earning a Kennedy Center Honor and receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame) to the lowest of lows (she tried to kill herself to escape her abusive relationship with ex-husband Ike Turner, mourned the death of two of her sons and nearly died from kidney failure) while becoming a household name whose songs — from «What's Love Got to Do With It» to «Proud Mary» — have endured the test of time.Over the course of her career, Tina released nine full-length studio albums, won a dozen GRAMMYs and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame not once, but twice.
ET takes a look back at some of the triumphs and tragedies she endured. Tina became the first woman to appear on the cover of the famed music magazine.
She graced the cover for the Nov. 23, 1967 issue. Ike and Tina first met in the late 1950s when he was 25 years old and she was just 17.
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