According to a post on her verified Facebook profile, Tina Turner, the dynamic rock and soul singer who rose from modest origins and endured a notoriously brutal marriage to become one of the most well-known female performers of all time, has passed away. She was 83 years old.

Turner, a captivating live singer, recorded a number of R&B singles with her abusive and demanding husband, Ike Turner, in the 1960s and early 1970s until she fled their Dallas hotel room with 36 cents.

Before she staged a remarkable comeback in 1984 with her multiplatinum album “Private Dancer” and its No. 1 song, “What’s Love Got to Do With It,” her solo career floundered for years.

Turner quickly became a worldwide sensation, dominating MTV with her short skirts, spiky hair, and infamously long legs while striding across concert stages in three-inch heels.

The ‘Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll’ was hailed for her musical prowess, and battered women around the world looked up to her for strength and courage. Every syllable resonated genuine when she sang of suffering and heartbreak in her husky, full-throated voice.

“For a long time I felt like I was stuck, with no way out of the unhealthy situation I was in,” she told Harvard Business Review in 2021. “But then I had a series of encounters with different people who encouraged me and, once I could see myself clearly, I began to change, opening the way to confidence and courage. It took a few years, but finally I was able to stand up for my life and start anew.”

‘He knew I had potential to be a star’

She was born Anna Mae Bullock in 1939 to struggling sharecroppers in the area of Nutbush, Tennessee, a little town north of Memphis that would later become well-known for the song “Nutbush City Limits,” which was autobiographical. After her parents divorced, she spent her early years living with her grandmother.

“We weren’t in poverty. We had food on the table. We just didn’t have fancy things, like bicycles,” Turner said in a 2005 interview with Oprah Winfrey.

“We were church people so, on Easter, we got all done up. I was very innocent and didn’t know much else. I knew the radio—B.B. King, country and western,” Turner said. “That’s about it. I didn’t know anything about being a star until the white people allowed us to come down and watch their television once a week.”

Turner and her sister, Ruby, went to St. Louis, Missouri, to live with their mother after their grandmother passed away in the 1950s.

She started going to some of the neighborhood bars in St. Louis, where she also met musician Ike Turner, whose band, Kings of Rhythm, was well-known there. At the age of 17, he asked her to sing for his band.

“Ike had to come to the house and ask Ma if it was OK for me to sing with him. He knew I had the potential to be a star. We were close, like brother and sister,” Turner told Winfrey. “On his off nights, we’d drive around town, and he would tell me about his life, his dreams. He told me that when he was young, people found him unattractive. That really hurt him. I felt bad for him. I thought, ‘I’ll never hurt you, Ike.’ I meant it. He was so nice to me then, but I did see the other side of him.”

She started out as Tina Turner, and the Ike & Tina Turner Revue was established in 1960. In the same year that their son Ronnie was born, their bond grew. Craig, Tina’s son from a former relationship, and two children from Ike’s past marriages were among the four children they raised after getting married in 1962.

A brutal union