Tina Turner escaped a violent marriage to a controlling musical partner and empowered herself to emerge through a musical renaissance. Cultural and domestic abuse experts say she would be better remembered as a pioneering Black woman who refused to be defined by that abuse. Raven Maragh-Lloyd, an assistant professor at Washington University in St. Louis, said focusing only her survival story doesn't reflect her full humanity. She had to dismantle the public perception of Ike and Tina as a loving partnership, even at personal cost. And her career revolution in the 1980s was on her own terms, leading her to become a worldwide phenomenon.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 25, 2023 19:09 UTC