How did the rock warrior succeed in her comeback?

In July 1976, in a hotel room in Dallas, Tina Turner, the swollen face made a decision that will change her life: flee her violent husband, Ike Turner. She abandons everything, except her name. A name that she will transform, patiently, into a symbol of resilience and power.

The following years are harsh. She sleeps on friends of friends and will sing in shabby cabarets, chees television … We believe it finished. But Tina is rebuilt, as always singing.

It is in an East Village club in New York, the Ritz, that the miracle promises to be. One evening in 1983, David Bowie, at the top of his glory, arrived unexpectedly to listen to him. This simple gesture again attracts the attention of industry. This artistic validation is a green light in a bottled career. Tina records a resumption of Let’s Stay Together Al Green. The British public immediately falls under the spell.

The comeback of the century

In 1984, it was the Renaissance. His album Private Dancer explodes with more than 20 million copies. With What’s Love Got To Do With ItTina signs one of the most spectacular feedback in the history of music. Irony? She hated this song. But she transforms it, infuses her a force of woman who lived. The song becomes number one. She wins four Grammy Awards. The world discovers, or rediscovers, a free, powerful Tina Turner. It does not look like anyone: ruffled wigs, dizzying heels and mini leather skirts.

In the following years, Tina has been successful: she sings with Bryan Adams, Mick Jagger, Eric Clapton, And of course, Bowie. Together, they interpret Tonight. Bowie will even go so far as to write a title to her: Girls. On the big screen, it becomes a post-apocalyptic pop icon in Mad Max : Beyond Thunderdome. For the film, she records We Don’t Need Another Herowhich will once again become a world tube.

“Simply the Best”: consecration

And then comes The Bestin 1989. This song, which Bonnie Tyler had recorded in anonymity two years earlier, became in the hands of Tina a planetary hymn. Sport takes it. His album Foreign Affair sells 10 million copies.

Its tours fill the largest speakers in the world. She enters the Guinness des records For having attracted the largest crowd ever gathered for a solo concert: 188,000 people in Rio. His name, formerly painful, becomes his empire. She embodies a revenge lived at the sight of the world.