Full Transcript for Unbreakable Spirit: Celebrating the Life and Resilience of Tina Turner

Speaker 1: 0:01 Hello and welcome to the Color With Purpose show. As you can see, tina Turner has passed away. If you don't know the story, tina Turner has passed away today at the age of 83 years old, or 83 years young. We lost an icon, someone who has had an amazing career, an amazing career. I think it's so very important for me to talk about it on our Color With Purpose platform. Let's get into some of the things about Tina Turner First. We're going to start off with her career highlights. Tina Turner achieved international fame as the lead singer of the Ike and Tina Turner Review in the 1960s and 1970s. She overcame personal and professional challenges to launch a successful solo career in the 1980s. She went on to receive numerous awards and accolades, including multiple Grammy Awards and the Kennedy Center Honor and induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Tina Turner has been recognized as one of the greatest female rock vocalists and performers of all time. She started in a biographical film What's Love Got to Do With It back in 1993. And that really propelled her life and career as a musical artist and an actor as well Now. She toured extensively. She was always on tours. She captivated audience around the world with her electrifying performances and with that smile and with those legs moving and dancing, she meant a lot to everyone around the world. Now what I want to touch on is some of her top hit songs. You may know what of them was Proud Mary as part of Ike and Tina Turner. Number two was What's Love Got to Do With It. Number three was Private Dancer. Number four was Simply the Best. Number five was Nutbush City Limits. Number six River Deep Mountain High. Number seven we don't need another hero. Number eight Golden Eye. Number nine better be good to me, that's a classic. Better be good to me. Number 10, steamy Windows. And it's very important just to say that. These are just a few highlights from Tina Turner's illustrious career, and she has many, many more incredible songs and accomplishments throughout her musical career as a musician or as an artist. But it's very important to say is that she made a positive impact on people's lives. Now, tina Turner's life and career were marked by a lot of tumultuous and highly publicized abusive relationship with her former husband, ike Turner, and the couple first met in the late 1950s and began performing together as the Ike and Tina Turner review. They achieved considerable success as a musical duo, but behind the scenes. Tina endured years of physical, emotional and psychological abuse at the hands of Ike. You know, i know with her story alone it was really a lot of women probably could relate to a lot of the abuse that she went through in her life And you know just the ups and the downs and the things that was going on behind the scenes And a lot of it was public in front of the public eye and how she was able to overcome that and still do her job as one of the top female vocalists in the world and in history. Now it's very important to realize that the abuse took various forms, including violent beatings, controlling behavior and constant humiliation. Tina often suffered physical injuries, but the emotional scars ran deep as well. The abusive relationship had a profound impact on her self-esteem, her mental health and her overall well-being. Now, after years of enduring the abuse, tina Turner eventually found the strength to lead the relationship in 1976. Now she walked away from a professional partnership with Ike and embarked on a solo career, facing numerous challenges and setbacks along the way. But it's very important to bring up that, despite the hardships, tina's resiliency and talent propelled her to achieve great success as a solo artist. That's important to bring up Now. Her escape from the abusive relationship was a pivotal moment in Tina's life, allowing her to reclaim her own identity herself as a powerful and independent woman. Through her journey, she became an inspiration to others who have faced similar situations. This is one of the things that I was talking about, and how she was able to endure that pain, that mental instability, and still be able to perform on a high level. You can tell she had a passion and a purpose to do what she was called to do. Now it's important to bring up that Tina's resilience and talent prepare her to achieve great success as a solo artist. She did not have that give up mentality. Was it hard? Yes, it was hard. She had to go through a lot of growing pains. Yes, but she didn't quit, and that's the message. I believe that is, if there was something that you can take from Tina Turner's life and use it in your life as motivation, is her resiliency right. Her ability to take the pain, absorb it and then bring back peace and love into the atmosphere. And that's how she performed. Her escape from the abusive relationship was a pivotal moment in Tina's life, allowing her to reclaim her identity and establish herself as a powerful and independent woman Now. It's very important that through her journey, she became an inspiration to others who have faced similar situations, proving that it's possible to break free from the cycle of abuse and rebuild one's life Now. Tina Turner's story serves as a reminder of the strength and courage it takes to escape an abusive relationship and rebuild a life of happiness and fulfillment in your life. Oftentimes, what we go through can break us down in such a mental state or mental mindset where we feel we cannot push through. Now. Her escape from this abusive relationship allow her to establish herself, to reset, push that reset button and she became as a powerful and independent woman through it. Through her journey, she became an inspiration to others who have faced similar situations, proving that it's possible to break free from the cycle of abuse, that it is possible to break free from the cycle of abuse and rebuild your life Now. Tina