Tina Turner

Her next single is currently being air played in the UK, which has had mixed reactions from listeners. The group was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2001. She is currently preparing for the release of her next album, which is a greatest hits with two new tracks. Additional reunion concerts were staged in 1964 and 1980. Now semi-retired, she teamed up with Phil Collins to record a song for the Disney film Brother Bear (2003). Ronnie Gilbert has had a solo career as well. Her home there sits atop Mont Vinaigrier, overlooking the Mediterranean Sea. After Eric Darling left the group, he was replaced by Frank Hamilton and then Bernie Krause.

In addition to a lakeshore home on the Goldküste, the most exclusive district of Zurich, Switzerland, Turner has an estate in France at Villefranche-sur-Mer, a small town about 4 miles (6km) east of the city of Nice. Seeger left the group to return to his solo career, and the Weavers continued without him. She gained great popularity throughout Europe and moved there permanently in 1986 to share a home with Erwin Bach, a German-born EMI record company executive 16 years her junior. The concert was a huge success, a recording of which was issued by Vanguard Records and led to their signing to that record label (by the late 1950s, folk music was becoming popular and anti-communism was fading). She also raised Ike's two sons from his previous marriage. In 1955, the group reunited to play a sold-out concert at Carnegie Hall, a venue whose management was unaware of the controversy surrounding the group. Tina has two natural sons (one is Ike's, the other from a previous relationship with a musician from the Kings of Rhythm). Pete Seeger continued his solo career after the group disbanded in 1952.

Her last world tour, which ended in 2000, was a sell out. Their popularity diminished rapidly, and the group's record contract was terminated. In 1995, she recorded the title theme of the James Bond movie GoldenEye. The Weavers were an easy target because of their fame and popularity on the radio and with the record-buying public. She led several extensive world tours in the 1980s and 1990's and released several more successful albums. Anti-communists protested at their performances and harassed promoters. In 1985, she appeared as Aunty Entity in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome with Mel Gibson, and scored another hit with the movie's theme song, "We Don't Need Another Hero". The Weavers were targeted because of their history of singing protest songs and folk songs favoring labor unions as well as for the leftist political beliefs of the individuals in the group.

The 1984 album Private Dancer had three top ten singles: "What's Love Got to Do with It", the title track, and "Better Be Good To Me". However, despite their caution, they were nonetheless placed under FBI surveillance and blacklisted by the US government during the McCarthy era. She began touring extensively to pay the bills and released several solo albums in the 1970s, but her career stalled until teaming with BEF for a remake of "Ball of Confusion" drawing the attention of Capitol Records. The Weavers avoided the more controversial songs in their repetoire, as well as avoiding performing at controversial venues and events, and the leftwing press derided them as having sold out their beliefs in exchange for popular success. To put the marriage (and Ike) behind her, Tina left the marriage with no money or property, asking for and retaining only the use of the stage name Ike had given her. They were the direct precursors of two even more popular folk groups that followed them in the 1950s and 1960s, The Kingston Trio and Peter, Paul and Mary. Tina finalized her divorce in 1978 after 18 years of marriage, accusing Turner of years of severe spousal abuse and rampant drug addiction in her autobiography I, Tina, which was later made into the film What's Love Got to Do with It. The Weavers sang traditional folk songs from around the world, as well as blues, folk, gospel music, children's songs, labor songs and ballads from the US, selling millions of records at the height of their popularity.

Around this time, she appeared solo in a memorable cameo as the Gypsy Acid Queen in the film of The Who's Tommy rock opera. The group had a big hit in 1949 with Leadbelly's Goodnight Irene, backed with the Jewish traditional folk song Tzena, Tzena. She credits her newfound Buhddist faith with giving her the courage to strike out on her own. This led to their discovery by arranger Gordon Jenkins and their signing with Decca Records. Ike's increasingly abusive behavior led Tina to abruptly leave him in 1976. After a period of finding themselves unable to find much, if any paid work, they finally achieved a performance slot at the jazz club the Village Vanguard. Their signature hit became their frantic rendition of "Proud Mary" (1971). The name came from a play of the same name by Gerhart Johann Robert Hauptmann.

Ike and Tina Turner recorded a number of hits in the 1960s, including "A Fool In Love", "It's Gonna Work out Fine", and the legendary "River Deep, Mountain High" (with producer Phil Spector). A fifth member, Eric Darling, sometimes sat in with the group when Seeger was unavailable. She began as an occasional vocalist in his show at the age of 18, but within a couple of years she not only had a new name, but was the spotlight of a popular soul revue led by Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. The Weavers group was formed in 1947 by Ronnie Gilbert, Lee Hays, Fred Hellerman and Pete Seeger. She was discovered by Ike Turner, a noted pioneer of rock and roll, whom she later married. The Weavers were an immensely popular and influential folk music quartet from Greenwich Village, New York, United States. Tina Turner is noted for her overpowering stage presence -- long legs, big hair, and powerful voice. Wasn't That a Time! video.

Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee, November 26, 1939) is an African American, Native American, R&B, pop, rock and soul singer, Buddhist and occasional actress probably best known for her scorching performances with the Ike and Tina Turner Revue and for her remarkable solo comeback in the mid-1980s. The Weavers on Tour (Live). 2004 "Open Arms" #25 UK. We Wish You a Merry Christmas. from All the Best