Tina Turner, known as Queen of Rock over the course of a 60-year career, has died at the age of 83.

The legendary singer died after a long illness at her home near Zurich in Switzerland, according to her Personal Assistant.

Since 1994 the American-born singer had been living in Switzerland with her husband, German actor and music producer Edwin Bach, earning her Swiss citizenship in 2013. In recent years she battled a number of serious health problems, including a stroke, intestinal cancer and total kidney failure that required an organ transplant.

Boasting one of the longest careers in rock history, Turner scored Billboard Top 40 hits across four decades, earning her Grammys, a Kennedy Center Honor, and entry into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame.

Most recently, Turner was the focal point of an HBO documentary on her life titled Tina.

As the front-woman for the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, Turner's incendiary singing, glittery stage-wear and seemingly inexhaustible energy made them one of the most electrifying acts of the 1960s, serving up high octane covers of "Proud Mary," "Come Together," and "I Want to Take you Higher." Striking out on her own as solo artist in the '70s, Turner reinvented herself as a star of the MTV age, notching hits with "What's Love Got to Do with It," "The Best," and "Private Dancer" — becoming one of the highest-selling female artists on the planet in the process.

Turner's early years were marred by her tumultuous marriage to musical partner Ike Turner, who subjected her to brutal acts of physical and psychological abuse. (He died in 2007.) Her survival and harrowing escape was dramatized in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It starring Angela Bassett.


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