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Tina Turner
Tina Turner is an eight time Grammy Award-winning American singer-songwriter, dancer, sex symbol, best selling author and an NAACP Image Award winning actress. Tina Turner's success, dominance, popularity and consistent contributions to the rock music have garnered her the title, "The Queen of Rock & Roll",. She's known worldwide for her overpowering and energetic stage presence, powerful vocals, spectacular Rock concerts as well as for her long, well-proportioned legs that are considered the most famous in show business. Besides rock, she has also performed R&B, soul, dance and pop music. She was listed on Rolling Stone's list The Immortals — The Greatest Artists of All Time. Turner is represented in the Grammy Hall of Fame by two of her recordings: "River Deep - Mountain High" (1999) and "Proud Mary" (2003).
Turner has been acknowledged as one of the world's most popular and biggest-selling music artists and is the most successful female rock artist ever with record sales exceeding 180 million copies worldwide and having sold more concert tickets than any other solo performer in music's history. Turner has accumulated many hit albums and singles worldwide as a solo act and with former husband, Ike Turner, (as a member of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue)
Turner's world tour Break Every Rule Tour had record breaking ticket sales and was attended by over four million fans. Turner also beat out The Rolling Stones by touring Europe during her sold out Foreign Affair Tour in 1990 and playing to four million people in just six months. Her 1996 Wildest Dreams Tour was performed to 3.5 million fans and her 2000 Twenty Four Seven Tour packed stadiums all over the world, was the highest grossing tour of the year, and is the 5th biggest grossing tour in America ever. Now in 2008, by popular demand, Turner decided to hit the road again with her new world tour Tina: Live in Concert Tour. Turner's tour has again managed to provide the highest selling tickets ever proving once again that she still has what it takes to be "simply the best".
The popular press has referred to Turner favourably 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."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_Turner
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