A legend is born

Anna Mae Bullock – who became known to millions as Tina Turner – was born on November 26, 1939 in Brownsville, Tennessee.

After living with her strict religious grandparents during World War II, whilst her parents went to work in a defense facility, she began to sing at a church choir.

The young Tina had a difficult childhood as she grew up in an abusive household with her mother running off to St. Louis in 1950.

In her autobiography ‘I, Tina’ she recalled mom Zelma and dad Richard constantly fighting, and she felt unwanted and unloved.

She said: “It was just a fact that my parents didn’t care that much for me.

“See, my mother didn’t want me in the first place. She had taken my father away from another girl – which is instant karma right there. "She was in the process of leaving my father when she got pregnant with me.”