Tina Turner Buddhist Scene from the move "What's love got to do with it"
Apr 17, 2012
Nichiren Buddhist chant the phase Nam Myoho Renge Kyo. This Japanese oriented Buddhist religion is a foreign culture in America. The act of chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo is strange. Unlike the practice in other Buddhist sect of meditation in Nichiren Buddhism the primary practice is Chanting Nam Myoho Renge Kyo and reciting the Lotus Sutra. We posted this movie scene as a "Cultural Pathway." We at the Proud Black Buddhist website emphasize the idea of "Cultural Pathways" as a mechanism to introduce Buddhism in America. Even more specific there must be "Cultural Pathways" to introduce Buddhism to the African American community. This website is like a Black radio station. We are cultural not racist. We explain Nichiren Buddhism in a cultural context. Individuals can view this movie scene and gain the courage to try Buddhism. African Americans need to view other African Americans so they will not feel not so left out. Chanting is a cultural shock. Most Black people are not going to listen to a Japanese leader. African Americas are articulate. There was Dr. Martin Luther King and we have a Black President Barack Obama Jr. Those of you who are interested in January we organized a Buddhist Sect called the "Proud Black Buddhist World Association. We include Black Buddhist history and culture in our practice. Learn more at: http://www.proudblackbuddhist.org/Tina Turner - Nam Myoho Renge Kyo
(2HR Buddhist Mantra)
Tina Turner - Lotus Sutra / Purity of Mind
(2HR Meditation)
TINA Turner Blog - YouTube
The meaning of the Lotus Sutra is 'I devote my life to the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra'.
It is the royal sutra of Nichiren Buddhism in Japan (1253). Coming from India to China and then to Japan, the prayer was translated from the Sanskrit word ‘Saddharma-pundarikasutra » first into classical Chinese as ‘Miao-fa Lien-hua Ching’ and then into an ancient form of Japanese as ‘Myoho Renge Kyo’.
The word 'Nam' derives from the Sanskrit ‘names’ and means ‘devotion’. It is placed before the name of all deities when worshipping them.
‘Myo’ is the name given to the mystic nature of life and ‘Ho’ to its manifestation.
‘Renge’ means lotus flower. The beautiful and undefiled Lotus blooms in a muddy swamp with all the obstacles against it. It symbolizes the emergence of our Buddha nature from the everyday problems and desires of ordinary life. ‘Renge’ stands also for the simultaneity of cause and effect, because the lotus puts forth its flower and seedpod at the same time.
‘Kyo’ literally means sutra, the voice, and the teaching of the Buddha.
It also means sound rhythm or vibration and therefore it might be interpreted to indicate the practice of chanting. Since everything in the universe is connected through sound waves, ‘Kyo » refers to the life activity of universal phenomena and indicates that everything is a manifestation of the Mystic Law.
‘Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ is the Mystic Law of the Lotus Sutra. An explanation can help you understand, but the Sutra can only be fully appreciated through chanting it.
TINA: ‘However you must do it, to truly understand. When you say ‘Nam-Myoho-Renge-Kyo’ it will slowly remove all of the bad decisions you have ever made. The more you repeat the words the more you make your life clearer. The more you chant it the closer you get to your true nature. Your true nature is the right way of thinking and the right way of acting. The longer you go on this path, the more you avoid making wrong decisions. The Lotus Sutra helps me in my daily life. It is indeed mystical! And my life has proven this!’
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Tina Turner dies at age 83 | full coverage
CBS NEWS 24MIN
24/05/2023 -
Tina Turner, seen here in 1995, was hailed as a singular presence who blazed a trail over decades in the music business © Jacques DEMARTHON / AFPLos Angeles (AFP) – Tina Turner, the trailblazing Black rocker whose powerful voice and imposing stage presence thrilled global audiences for decades, died Wednesday at the age of 83.
Tributes poured in from around the world, with some of music's biggest names lamenting the loss of a singular and instantly recognizable performer, whose popularity spanned generations.
Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger -- who, legend has it, learned his dance moves from the diva, said the world had lost "an enormously talented performer and singer."
"She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous. She helped me so much when I was young and I will never forget her."
Bandmate Ronnie Wood called Turner "the Queen Of Rock And Soul and a dear friend."
Fans lined up to pay tribute at the wrought iron gates of her huge compound in Kusnacht, on Switzerland's Lake Zurich, many bearing candles and flowers.
Chateau Algonquin had been the home Turner shared with her German husband Erwin Bach for almost three decades, including when she took Swiss citizenship in 2013, and relinquished her US passport.
"The world has lost an icon," Swiss President Alain Berset said.
Back in the United States, President Joe Biden paid a pointed tribute to a "once-in-a-generation talent that changed American music forever."
"Tina's personal strength was remarkable," Biden wrote. "Overcoming adversity, and even abuse, she built a career for the ages and a life and legacy that were entirely hers, " he added, calling Turner "simply the best."
Turner's Britain-based publicist Bernard Doherty said her death came after a long illness, and had robbed the world of "a music legend and a role model."
He gave no details of the illness.
'The Best'
A career that would go on to net eight Grammy Awards began in the 1960s in a partnership with husband Ike Turner.
The pair recorded a number of hits together throughout the 1960s and 1970s, and while he was credited as being the brains behind the operation, she was always clearly the more talented.
After their troubled and violent marriage collapsed -- she fled in 1976 mid-tour -- Tina Turner forged a wildly successful solo career.
The following decades gifted the world instantly recognizable hits like "What's Love Got to Do With It?", "Private Dancer" and the anthemic "The Best".
A fan places flowers on Tina Turner's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame © Patrick T. Fallon / AFP
Her "We Don't Need Another Hero" featured on the soundtrack to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," the 1985 post-apocalyptic thriller starring Mel Gibson.
A decade later she oozed her way through "Goldeneye," joining the select ranks of artists who have sung on the James Bond franchise.
Reaction to Turner's death came from across the worlds of music, entertainment and sport.
Fellow singer Gloria Gaynor took to Instagram to hail Turner's mold-breaking career, and how she "paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white."
"She did with great dignity and success what very few would even have dared to do in her time and in that genre of music.
"She will be sorely missed."
Mariah Carey called Turner the embodiment of a legendary superstar. She was "an incredible performer, musician and trailblazer.
"To me, she will always be a survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere," she wrote.
Angela Bassett, who played the singer in the 1993 biopic "What's Love Got to Do With It" opposite Laurence Fishburne as Ike, paid emotional tribute to "a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world."
"Tina Turner showed others who lived in fear what a beautiful future filled with love, compassion and freedom should look like," Bassett said.
Basketball legend Magic Johnson posted a picture with the songstress -- "one of my favorite artists of all time."
"I've seen her many many times and hands down, she gave one of the best live shows I've ever seen," he tweeted.
Actor Forest Whitaker praised Turner's "voice, her dancing, and her spirit."
But he also hailed her ability to bounce back, in a nod to the difficulty of escaping her troubled marriage to Ike.
"As we honor her, let's also reflect on her resilience, and think about all the greatness that can follow our darkest days."
Her "We Don't Need Another Hero" featured on the soundtrack to "Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome," the 1985 post-apocalyptic thriller starring Mel Gibson.
A decade later she oozed her way through "Goldeneye," joining the select ranks of artists who have sung on the James Bond franchise.
Reaction to Turner's death came from across the worlds of music, entertainment and sport.
Fellow singer Gloria Gaynor took to Instagram to hail Turner's mold-breaking career, and how she "paved the way for so many women in rock music, black and white."
"She did with great dignity and success what very few would even have dared to do in her time and in that genre of music.
"She will be sorely missed."
Mariah Carey called Turner the embodiment of a legendary superstar. She was "an incredible performer, musician and trailblazer.
"To me, she will always be a survivor and an inspiration to women everywhere," she wrote.
Angela Bassett, who played the singer in the 1993 biopic "What's Love Got to Do With It" opposite Laurence Fishburne as Ike, paid emotional tribute to "a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world."
"Tina Turner showed others who lived in fear what a beautiful future filled with love, compassion and freedom should look like," Bassett said.
Basketball legend Magic Johnson posted a picture with the songstress -- "one of my favorite artists of all time."
"I've seen her many many times and hands down, she gave one of the best live shows I've ever seen," he tweeted.
Actor Forest Whitaker praised Turner's "voice, her dancing, and her spirit."
But he also hailed her ability to bounce back, in a nod to the difficulty of escaping her troubled marriage to Ike.
"As we honor her, let's also reflect on her resilience, and think about all the greatness that can follow our darkest days."
Tina Turner: the raw power of rock and roll
Issued on: 24/05/2023 -
Tina Turner electrified audiences with her explosive stage presence
Tina Turner -- seen in Paris in 1987 at the height of her solo fame -- always dreamed of being a rock star, a dream fulfilled after she left her husband Ike
But the rock star dream still gnawed at her.
"How can I fill stadiums?" Turner wondered, in comments played during her 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
"I wanted it. I wanted to do what Jagger and all the other guys at the time was doing."
Those dreams were fulfilled, and then some, when she struck crossover gold with her 1984 album "Private Dancer," whose Grammy-winning smash single "What's Love Got to Do With It" propelled her to superstardom at age 44.
Four years later, she set the record for largest paying attendance of a performance by a solo artist when her Rio concert crowd topped 180,000.
As a Black woman who embraced rock over 1950s doo-wop and 1960s Motown, Turner was a double outsider. But she wrote -- and then rewrote -- the rule book for women in the genre.
"A Black woman owning the stage all by herself: that's the dream right there," singer and rapper Lizzo said of Turner.
Singer Tina Turner (R) performs with Beyonce (L) at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008 -- Beyonce called Turner 'fearless' © ROBYN BECK / AFP/File
Turner sold more than 100 million records worldwide, according to Billboard, and paved the way for bold performers like Janet Jackson, Madonna and Beyonce.
"I never in my life saw a woman so powerful, so fearless, so fabulous," Beyonce told Turner from the Kennedy Center stage in a 2005 Tina tribute. "And those legs!"
'Pain in your heart'
Anna Mae Bullock was born on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
Tina Turner was born in the southern US state of Tennessee, in a family of modest means © Jim WATSON / AFP/File
She and her sister grew up in a family of modest means but conditions worsened when they were abandoned by their father, and then their mother.
When the grandmother who helped raise them died, Anna Mae moved in with relatives in St. Louis, Missouri at age 16.
There she met Ike Turner, a guitarist and bandleader eight years her senior who had already tasted fame, having written and recorded what was arguably the first rock and roll record, "Rocket 88," in 1951.
She convinced Ike to let her sing with him.
When he scored a 1960 hit with her lead vocals on "A Fool in Love," he gave her the stage name Tina Turner, and the pair performed as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. By 1962, they were married.
From early on, Tina was the fiery, dominant presence, stealing the limelight with a blend of thick, textured vocals, haunting howls and mesmerizing dance moves.
The Turner oeuvre reflected their personal tensions: it included "I Idolize You," "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," and their most famous number, a 1970 cover of "Proud Mary," in which Tina purrs about starting the song "nice and easy," but finishing it "nice and rough."
Even as she exuded raw sexual power as a performer, her singing was tinged with a palpable vulnerability.
US singer Tina Turner -- seen here performing in 1996 in Paris -- orchestrated one of music's greatest comebacks after leaving her abusive husband Ike
'A way out'
Singer Tina Turner spent her later years with husband Edwin Bach in Switzerland © Bertrand GUAY / AFP/File
Turner, who had embraced Buddhism and saw it as "a way out" of her dangerous first marriage, pointed to the faith as a catalyst for rejuvenation and stability.
She often swatted away probing questions, once saying reliving the past was like a "curse."
But personal hardships were impossible to ignore, including the violence from Ike.
"He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang," she wrote in her 2018 memoir, "My Love Story."
In life after Ike, her concerts became glitzy spectacles -- and she kept the high-octane rock flowing for decades.
A Wembley Stadium concert in 2000 saw a 60-year-old Turner holding nothing back, grinding across the stage in stiletto heels and her trademark leather miniskirt.
In 2008, she embarked on her Tina! - 50th Anniversary Tour, which grossed some $130 million.
In 2013, three months after marrying Bach and taking Swiss nationality, Turner relinquished her US citizenship.
The grande dame enjoyed her later years with Bach in their Zurich home and a vacation mansion near the French Riviera.
Tragedy struck in 2018 when Turner's eldest son Craig, from her pre-Ike union with saxophonist Raymond Hill, committed suicide at 59.
Ike Turner -- who died in 2007 -- and Tina had one child together, Ronnie, who died last year at 62 of complications from colon cancer.
Issued on: 24/05/2023 -
Tina Turner electrified audiences with her explosive stage presence © ED OUDENAARDEN / ANP/AFP/File
Washington (AFP) – Tina Turner, the growling songstress whose explosive presence left an indelible mark on 20th-century rock, electrified fans with five decades of hit records -- first with husband Ike Turner, then as a wildly successful solo act.
The Black eight-time Grammy winner, who has died at the age of 83, lit up the stage from the 1960s, and won a new generation of fans in a stunning comeback after escaping her violent marriage -- making her popular music's ultimate survivor.
Abandoned by her parents, she emerged from Tennessee's cotton fields to become the impassioned "Queen of Rock and Roll" who, according to music lore, taught Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger how to dance.
After snowballing into a global phenomenon, the singer of "Nutbush City Limits" and "The Best" lived her final years in Switzerland with husband Erwin Bach, a former record label executive who was her romantic partner for three decades before they tied the knot in 2013.
Her early career, originally as a soul and R&B siren, was a roller coaster for Turner, who admitted attempting suicide at the height of Ike's physical and emotional abuse.
Tina fled Ike in 1976, dashing across a highway to escape during a concert tour. Her divorce was finalized in 1978, and she was left with nothing but her stage name.
Washington (AFP) – Tina Turner, the growling songstress whose explosive presence left an indelible mark on 20th-century rock, electrified fans with five decades of hit records -- first with husband Ike Turner, then as a wildly successful solo act.
The Black eight-time Grammy winner, who has died at the age of 83, lit up the stage from the 1960s, and won a new generation of fans in a stunning comeback after escaping her violent marriage -- making her popular music's ultimate survivor.
Abandoned by her parents, she emerged from Tennessee's cotton fields to become the impassioned "Queen of Rock and Roll" who, according to music lore, taught Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger how to dance.
After snowballing into a global phenomenon, the singer of "Nutbush City Limits" and "The Best" lived her final years in Switzerland with husband Erwin Bach, a former record label executive who was her romantic partner for three decades before they tied the knot in 2013.
Her early career, originally as a soul and R&B siren, was a roller coaster for Turner, who admitted attempting suicide at the height of Ike's physical and emotional abuse.
Tina fled Ike in 1976, dashing across a highway to escape during a concert tour. Her divorce was finalized in 1978, and she was left with nothing but her stage name.
Tina Turner -- seen in Paris in 1987 at the height of her solo fame -- always dreamed of being a rock star, a dream fulfilled after she left her husband Ike © Bertrand GUAY / AFP/File
But the rock star dream still gnawed at her.
"How can I fill stadiums?" Turner wondered, in comments played during her 2021 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction.
"I wanted it. I wanted to do what Jagger and all the other guys at the time was doing."
Those dreams were fulfilled, and then some, when she struck crossover gold with her 1984 album "Private Dancer," whose Grammy-winning smash single "What's Love Got to Do With It" propelled her to superstardom at age 44.
Four years later, she set the record for largest paying attendance of a performance by a solo artist when her Rio concert crowd topped 180,000.
As a Black woman who embraced rock over 1950s doo-wop and 1960s Motown, Turner was a double outsider. But she wrote -- and then rewrote -- the rule book for women in the genre.
"A Black woman owning the stage all by herself: that's the dream right there," singer and rapper Lizzo said of Turner.
Singer Tina Turner (R) performs with Beyonce (L) at the Grammy Awards in Los Angeles on February 10, 2008 -- Beyonce called Turner 'fearless' © ROBYN BECK / AFP/FileTurner sold more than 100 million records worldwide, according to Billboard, and paved the way for bold performers like Janet Jackson, Madonna and Beyonce.
"I never in my life saw a woman so powerful, so fearless, so fabulous," Beyonce told Turner from the Kennedy Center stage in a 2005 Tina tribute. "And those legs!"
'Pain in your heart'
Anna Mae Bullock was born on November 26, 1939, in Brownsville, Tennessee.
Tina Turner was born in the southern US state of Tennessee, in a family of modest means © Jim WATSON / AFP/FileShe and her sister grew up in a family of modest means but conditions worsened when they were abandoned by their father, and then their mother.
When the grandmother who helped raise them died, Anna Mae moved in with relatives in St. Louis, Missouri at age 16.
There she met Ike Turner, a guitarist and bandleader eight years her senior who had already tasted fame, having written and recorded what was arguably the first rock and roll record, "Rocket 88," in 1951.
She convinced Ike to let her sing with him.
When he scored a 1960 hit with her lead vocals on "A Fool in Love," he gave her the stage name Tina Turner, and the pair performed as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. By 1962, they were married.
From early on, Tina was the fiery, dominant presence, stealing the limelight with a blend of thick, textured vocals, haunting howls and mesmerizing dance moves.
The Turner oeuvre reflected their personal tensions: it included "I Idolize You," "It's Gonna Work Out Fine," and their most famous number, a 1970 cover of "Proud Mary," in which Tina purrs about starting the song "nice and easy," but finishing it "nice and rough."
Even as she exuded raw sexual power as a performer, her singing was tinged with a palpable vulnerability.
US singer Tina Turner -- seen here performing in 1996 in Paris -- orchestrated one of music's greatest comebacks after leaving her abusive husband Ike © DANIEL MORDZINSKI / AFP/File
"You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart," Turner told Rolling Stone magazine in 1986.
After leaving Ike, she toiled in Las Vegas shows, released modestly selling solo records and toured heavily in Europe.
But with the success of 1984's "Private Dancer," her metamorphosis from manipulated co-star to resurrected rock goddess was complete.
The next year, she was onstage at Live Aid in Philadelphia for a memorable encounter with Jagger, who ripped off Turner's black leather miniskirt mid-performance, revealing her in fishnet stockings and a leotard.
Turner grinned and ran fingers through her lion's mane of hair.
"I know, it's only rock and roll but I like it!" she belted out.
She starred opposite Mel Gibson in a Hollywood blockbuster, "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome;" co-wrote a best-selling autobiography, "I, Tina;" and was the subject of a feature film, "What's Love Got To Do With It" starring Angela Bassett.
"You sing with those emotions because you've had pain in your heart," Turner told Rolling Stone magazine in 1986.
After leaving Ike, she toiled in Las Vegas shows, released modestly selling solo records and toured heavily in Europe.
But with the success of 1984's "Private Dancer," her metamorphosis from manipulated co-star to resurrected rock goddess was complete.
The next year, she was onstage at Live Aid in Philadelphia for a memorable encounter with Jagger, who ripped off Turner's black leather miniskirt mid-performance, revealing her in fishnet stockings and a leotard.
Turner grinned and ran fingers through her lion's mane of hair.
"I know, it's only rock and roll but I like it!" she belted out.
She starred opposite Mel Gibson in a Hollywood blockbuster, "Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome;" co-wrote a best-selling autobiography, "I, Tina;" and was the subject of a feature film, "What's Love Got To Do With It" starring Angela Bassett.
'A way out'
In the revealing 2021 HBO documentary "Tina," an uncomfortable reality emerges: her past trauma had become a focus for interviewers, with the star repeatedly asked to recount her life's worst moments.
Singer Tina Turner spent her later years with husband Edwin Bach in Switzerland © Bertrand GUAY / AFP/FileTurner, who had embraced Buddhism and saw it as "a way out" of her dangerous first marriage, pointed to the faith as a catalyst for rejuvenation and stability.
She often swatted away probing questions, once saying reliving the past was like a "curse."
But personal hardships were impossible to ignore, including the violence from Ike.
"He used my nose as a punching bag so many times that I could taste blood running down my throat when I sang," she wrote in her 2018 memoir, "My Love Story."
In life after Ike, her concerts became glitzy spectacles -- and she kept the high-octane rock flowing for decades.
A Wembley Stadium concert in 2000 saw a 60-year-old Turner holding nothing back, grinding across the stage in stiletto heels and her trademark leather miniskirt.
In 2008, she embarked on her Tina! - 50th Anniversary Tour, which grossed some $130 million.
In 2013, three months after marrying Bach and taking Swiss nationality, Turner relinquished her US citizenship.
The grande dame enjoyed her later years with Bach in their Zurich home and a vacation mansion near the French Riviera.
Tragedy struck in 2018 when Turner's eldest son Craig, from her pre-Ike union with saxophonist Raymond Hill, committed suicide at 59.
Ike Turner -- who died in 2007 -- and Tina had one child together, Ronnie, who died last year at 62 of complications from colon cancer.
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Sherry and Tom Raggett speak with a reporter inside the Tina Turner Museum at Flagg Grove School at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Brownsville, Tenn. Turner attended Flagg Grove school as a child in nearby Nutbush. The school was moved to the center and opened as a museum in 2014. Turner's manager says she died Tuesday, May 23, 2023, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
BROWNSVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Standing in a Tennessee museum, near exhibits of shimmering dresses worn by Tina Turner, Lisa Lyons wiped tears from her cheeks as she remembered the impact the singer and actress had on her life.
Lyons recalled watching Turner’s performance in the film “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” as Auntie Entity, the tyrannical leader of a post-apocalyptic civilization.
“She was fierce, and she was strong, and she was powerful, and that has stayed with me,” said Lyons, who, like Turner, is Black. “As a little girl of color who didn’t have that type of role model in real life, it has stuck with me all these years.”
Turner, 83, died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, according to her manager. Her Grammy-winning singing career includes the hit songs “Nutbush City Limits,” “Proud Mary,” “What’s Love Got To Do With It” and “We Don’t Need Another Hero,” from “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome.” Her film credits also include “Tommy” and “Last Action Hero.”
Lyons, 56, said she heard about Turner’s death on Wednesday and drove to the museum in Brownsville, west of Jackson, where Lyons lives.
When it comes to her musical legacy in a region known for its blues, rock and roll, R&B and soul music, Turner was the “cream of the crop,” Lyons said.
“She is the standard. She is the goal to aspire for,” Lyons said. “She did it and she did it well, and she did it on her own terms.”
The museum opened in 2014 inside the renovated Flagg Grove School at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center in Brownsville, about 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Memphis. Turner attended school in the one-room building as a child growing up in nearby Nutbush, one of the small, rural towns that dot the farms and fields of West Tennessee.
The building was on farmland owned by Benjamin Flagg, who saw a need for a school for the area’s black children and began building it in 1889. The school is representative of the schoolhouses for African-American children that sprang up in the rural South after the Civil War.
The school closed in the 1960s and was used as a barn before the dilapidated building was moved by tractor-trailer from Nutbush to Brownsville.
Lisa Lyons, 56, poses for a photo inside the Tina Turner Museum at the Flagg Grove School at the West Tennessee Delta Heritage Center on Wednesday, May 24, 2023, in Brownsville, Tenn. Turner, the unstoppable singer and stage performer who teamed with husband Ike Turner for a dynamic run of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and ‘70s and triumphed in middle age with the chart-topping "What's Love Got to Do With It," has died at 83. Turner died Tuesday, after a long illness in her home in Kuesnacht near Zurich, Switzerland, according to her manager. (AP Photo/Adrian Sainz)
The museum contains a setup of the classroom, including the original blackboard and wooden desks used by Turner and her fellow students. It also contains photos of Turner, and the Armani, Versace and Bob Mackie dresses Turner wore on stage during the energetic performances for which she was known.
On Wednesday, Turner fans went to the museum to pay their respects. Some of them had already planned to visit before news of Turner’s death broke, while others made a special trip after they found out.
Sherry Raggett and her husband, Tom, had already planned to visit the center as the final stop of a museum tour that took them from their home in the Memphis suburb of Collierville to a few places in Kentucky and Nashville, then back to west Tennessee.
Sherry Raggett called Turner “a wonderful person” and praised her for “her strong influence on women and how they can overcome so many things.”
“I grew up listening to her, and she was a fantastic entertainer,” Tom Raggett said. “I loved every minute watching her.”
The heritage center’s director, Sonia Outlaw-Clark, said she met Turner in 2019 in New York during the opening of “Tina: The Tina Turner Musical.”
“It was such an honor to be in her presence, but it was also such a feeling of ease,” Outlaw-Clark said. “Even though she was an international icon, a superstar, I still felt that she was a hometown girl. It was like meeting a neighbor.”
Outlaw-Clark said the center was hoping to honor Turner this weekend during its annual Exit 56 Blues Fest and during another event in September that takes place on the anniversary of the museum’s opening.
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