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美国摇滚女王蒂娜·特纳去世

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Singer Tina Turner, known as the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll" has died at the age of 83.

被誉为“摇滚女王”的歌手蒂娜·特纳去世,享年83岁。

Turner's representative said she died Wednesday night after a long illness in her home in Küsnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.

特纳的代表说,特纳因长期患病于周三晚上在瑞士苏黎世附近库斯纳赫特的家中去世。

She became a Swiss citizen about 10 years ago.

大约10年前,她成为瑞士公民。

The entertainer teamed up with her husband Ike Turner for a series of hit records and live shows in the 1960s and '70s.

在20世纪60年代和70年代,这位艺人与她的丈夫艾克·特纳合作制作了一系列热门唱片和现场表演。

She survived the abusive marriage and returned as a solo artist with the best-selling album Private Dancer in 1984.

她从虐待婚姻中幸存下来,并于1984年以独唱艺人的身份回归,发行了最畅销的专辑《私人舞者》。

The album had three huge hit songs Private Dancer, Better Be Good to Me and What's Love Got to Do With It.

这张专辑有三首热门歌曲《私人舞者》、《你最好对我好》和《与爱有关》。

"How do we say farewell to a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world?" actor Angela Bassett said in a statement.

演员安吉拉·巴塞特在一份声明中说:“我们该如何告别一位承受了痛苦和创伤,并将其作为帮助改变世界的手段的女性?”

Bassett played Turner in the 1993 movie What's Love Got to Do With It.

巴塞特在1993年的电影《与爱有关》中饰演特纳。

Turner sold more than 150 million records worldwide and won 12 Grammys.

特纳在全球售出了超过1.5亿张唱片,并获得了12项格莱美奖。

She was voted along with Ike Turner into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, and on her own in 2021.

1991年,她和艾克·特纳一起入选摇滚名人堂,并于2021年单独入选。

Her life story was made into a movie and Broadway musical.

她的生平故事被改编成电影和百老汇音乐剧。

Leader of The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, wrote on Instagram, "I'm so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend Tina Turner.

滚石乐队主唱米克·贾格尔在Instagram上写道:“我为我的好友蒂娜·特纳的逝世感到悲痛。

She was truly an enormously talented performer and singer.

她确实是一位才华横溢的表演者和歌手。

She was inspiring, warm, funny and generous.

她鼓舞人心,热情,风趣,大方。

She helped me so much when I was young, and I will never forget her."

她在我年轻的时候帮了我很多,我永远不会忘记她。”

Turner and Jagger had a memorable performance at the 1985 Live Aid concert in Philadelphia.

特纳和贾格尔在1985年费城的Live Aid音乐会上有一场令人难忘的表演。

"Tina Turner was raw. She was powerful. She was unstoppable… Today we join fans around the world in honoring the Queen of Rock and Roll, and a star whose light will never fade," former U.S. President Barack Obama wrote on Twitter.

美国前总统巴拉克·奥巴马在推特上写道:“蒂娜·特纳很原始,她很有力量。她势不可挡……今天,我们和世界各地的歌迷一起向这位摇滚女王致敬,她是一位光芒永不会消退的明星。”

Other tributes came in from U.S. President Joe Biden, Beyonce, Elton John, and Mariah Carey among many others.

美国总统乔·拜登、碧昂丝、艾尔顿·约翰和玛丽亚·凯莉等人也向她致敬。

Turner was born in a racially separated hospital in Nutbush, Tennessee in 1939.

特纳于1939年出生在田纳西州纳特布什的一家种族隔离的医院。

She would say she received "no love" from either her mother or father.

她曾说,她没有得到过母爱和父爱。

After her parents separated, she moved often around Tennessee and Missouri, living with different relatives.

父母分居后,她经常搬到田纳西州和密苏里州和不同的亲戚住在一起。

She loved to sing and would go to blues music places in St. Louis.

她喜欢唱歌,经常去圣路易斯的布鲁斯音乐场所。

There, one of the top performers was Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm.

在那里,艾克·特纳和他的“节奏之王”乐队是最优秀的表演者之一。

Over her mother's objections, she joined his group and married him in 1962.

她不顾母亲的反对加入了他的乐队,并于1962年嫁给了他。

Turner was among the first well-known stars to speak honestly about marriage abuse.

特纳是首批坦诚谈论婚姻虐待的知名明星之一。

She wrote in her book, I, Tina, that Ike Turner began hitting her not long after they met, in the mid-1950s, and only grew worse.

她在她的书《我,蒂娜》中写道,20世纪50年代中期,在他们认识后不久,艾克·特纳就开始打她,而且愈演愈烈。

She remembered that he threw hot coffee in her face, choked her, or beat her until her eyes were swollen shut, then sexually attacked her.

她记得,他把热咖啡泼到她脸上,掐她,或者殴打她直到她的眼睛肿得睁不开,然后对她进行性侵。

Before one show, he broke her jaw, and she went on stage with her mouth full of blood.

在一场演出之前,他打碎了她的下巴,她满嘴鲜血地走上了舞台。

Ike did not deny mistreating Tina but tried to blame her for their troubles.

艾克没有否认虐待蒂娜,但试图将他们的麻烦归咎于她。

When he died, in 2007, a representative for his ex-wife said simply: "Tina is aware that Ike passed away."

2007年,当他去世时,他前妻的一位代表简单地说:“蒂娜知道艾克去世了。”

The Turners were popular with music fans during the 1960s and into the '70s.

特纳夫妇在20世纪60年代至70年代在乐迷中很受欢迎。

They also opened for the Rolling Stones in 1966 and 1969.

他们还在1966年和1969年为滚石乐队开场。

But by the end of the 1970s, Turner's career seemed finished at the age of 40.

但到了20世纪70年代末,特纳的职业生涯似乎结束了,当时她40岁。

Needing work and money, she even agreed to perform in South Africa when the country was widely boycotted because of its racist policy.

由于需要工作和资金,她甚至同意在南非演出,当时南非因其种族主义政策而受到广泛抵制。

Turner's Private Dancer album came out in May 1984 and sold more than eight million copies.

特纳的《私人舞者》专辑于1984年5月发行,销量超过800万张。

"People look at me now and think what a hot life I must have lived — ha!" she wrote in her book.

她在书中写道:“人们现在看着我,认为我一定过着多么棒的生活啊!”

Turner married her second husband Erwin Bach in a civil ceremony in Switzerland in 2013.

2013年,特纳与第二任丈夫欧文·巴赫在瑞士举行了一场非宗教仪式的结婚典礼。

"It's that happiness that people talk about," Turner said, "when you wish for nothing, when you can finally take a deep breath and say, 'Everything is good.'"

特纳说:“这就是人们常说的那种幸福,当你一无所求,当你终于可以深吸一口气说‘一切都好’的时候。”

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