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She was very conscious about her body and loathed her gangly legs.
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Listening to the gospel songs ignited a passion in her. During this time, Tina’s grandmother began taking her to weekly mass and that is where Tina discovered her love of music. In the 1940s, her parents sent her to live with her paternal grandparents. Before her mother’s abandonment, Tina’s parents had a tumultuous relationship. Tina envied the loving marriage her maternal grandparents had. She had a close relationship with her grandmother Roxanna and her sister Alline. There were even rumors that Tina was the child of someone else. She never had a loving relationship with her father either. He managed black workers for white farm owners. When her mother packed her bags and walked out, never to return, Tina was proven right. She described her personality as indifferent, not loving, or hateful. Tina always felt her mother never wanted her. Her mom never wanted to have another child and Tina felt resentment coming from her. In her hit song “Nutbush City Limits”, Tina described her hometown as having only “a church house, a schoolhouse, a gin house, and an outhouse.”
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Tina was born in a city that should already be familiar to rock n roll fans, Nutbush, a small town located 20 miles from the Mississippi River. Anna Mae Bullock was the original name of the Rock n Roll Queen. She was born on November 11, 1939, in Tennessee. “Nutbush city limits, little old town in Tennessee, It’s called a quiet, little old community” – Nutbush City Limitsīelieve it or not, Tina Turner’s iconic name is not her real one.