Words like "icon" and "legend" are so overused today that when a true pioneer dies, it's hard to describe their legacy. By any reasonable measure, though, Tina Turner was both an icon and a legend, a ground-breaking figure in R&B and rock music whose expressive voice and commanding stage presence radically transformed American popular music.
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