Stage Name Stories: Tina Turner

Born: Annie Mae Bullock

What's in a Name: Tina Turner got the last name, of course, by marrying her bandleader, Ike Turner. But he also changed the soul queen's given name as well, appropriately yet obliquely inspired by his fandom of comic-book wildwoman Sheena, Queen of the Jungle.




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