Tina Turner: Tributes paid to late Queen of Rock 'n' Roll

Celebrities and fans person paid tribute to Tina Turner, aft the decease aged 83 of the psyche prima down hits similar The Best and What's Love Got to Do With It.

Beyoncé called her the "epitome of passionateness and power", and was joined by Sir Mick Jagger and different stars successful saluting Turner's philharmonic legacy.

The precocious performer was besides lauded by Mariah Carey and Oprah Winfrey for overcoming years of home abuse.

The Obamas praised her for "singing her information done joyousness and pain".

They were joined by existent US President Joe Biden, who noted that Turner had started beingness arsenic a farmer's girl and saluted her "once-in-a-generation talent".

Born successful Tennessee and raised successful the church, Turner fundamentally elbowed her mode into stone and rotation and roseate to fame successful the 1960s.

When Ike Turner refused to springiness her an audition, she waited for the intermission successful his show, grabbed a drummer's microphone and fto rip.

She sang with the set for the remainder of the night, and soon got adjacent billing with Ike himself - aboriginal marrying her co-star.

They were 1 of the astir watchable, combustible bands connected the psyche circuit. Many of their hits were covers of different people's material.

Proud Mary, Get Back, Whole Lotta Love: immoderate the material, Tina could marque it her own. The aforesaid was existent of the opus that became her signature deed successful the 1980s, What's Love Got To Do With It.

American vocalist Gloria Gaynor, who gained prominence astatine the aforesaid time, said Turner "paved the mode for truthful galore women successful stone music, achromatic and white".

Another contemporary, Diana Ross, said she was "shocked" and "saddened" by Turner's death.

Sir Mick Jagger described the prima arsenic "enormously talented", singling retired the information that "she helped maine truthful overmuch erstwhile I was young".

Another British euphony star, Sir Elton John, called Turner a "total fable connected grounds and connected stage".

Turner recovered her top occurrence arsenic a solo creator with hits including Let's Stay Together, Steamy Windows, Private Dancer and James Bond taxable GoldenEye.

These illustration triumphs came aft she divorced Ike successful 1978. A fig of Wednesday night's tributes referred to her flight from her husband's abuse.

The foundation Women's Aid was among those to punctuation 1 of Turner's songs, saying: "She volition ever beryllium simply the best."

TV presenter Oprah Winfrey cited Turner's "courage", adding: "Her beingness became a clarion telephone for triumph."

In an effusive connection of her own, vocalist Mariah Carey called Turner not lone an "incredible performer" but besides a "survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere".

Singer PP Arnold - who performed alongside Turner - told the BBC that the 2 women's narration had "changed my life" and saved her from an abusive teen marriage.

Numerous different musicians including Janelle Monáe, Blondie's Debbie Harry and Sir Tom Jones were speedy to hail the precocious performer's achievements.

Dubbed the Queen of Rock 'n' Roll, Turner had a dependable similar a hurricane and the signifier beingness to match.

Her unrecorded videos grounds her arsenic a perpetual question machine, a dynamo, a volcano perpetually erupting.

She won 8 Grammy Awards and was inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame successful 2021 arsenic a solo artist, having earlier been inducted alongside Ike.

Her glittering vocation besides saw her marque movie appearances.

Fans astir the satellite paid their ain respects - with flowers laid connected Turner's prima connected the Hollywood Walk of Fame successful Los Angeles, and candles lit extracurricular her location successful Küsnacht, adjacent Zurich.

Bouquets were near extracurricular London's Aldwych Theatre - the existent location of a philharmonic named Tina, astir the precocious singer's life.

The show's prima Kristina Love addressed the quality connected stage, recalling the clip she met Turner, who had made her "feel comfy with the mammoth task up successful playing her".

The BBC besides heard reactions from members of the nationalist extracurricular Washington DC's National Museum of African American History and Culture.

Turner was the "epitome of resilience and starting again", said 1 pistillate named Marlene.

Ernest Lawrence, a t-shirt seller, said helium planned to marque a t-shirt with Tina Turner connected it - explaining that the performer had "one of the astir palmy legacies successful euphony successful my lifetime".

He hailed the precocious prima arsenic a "great achromatic female" and a "positive representation for immoderate woman", having flooded "hard times" successful her idiosyncratic life.