The world has lost a rock legend. Tina Turner died at her home in Switzerland, where she became a citizen a decade ago. She was 83.

She rose from humble beginnings to global stardom and survived her brutal marriage to Ike Turner. She was a symbol of female empowerment and resilience. Her hits included Private Dancer and Proud Mary.

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A singer whose volcanic voice and dynamic dance moves catapulted her from a barnstorming R&B revue to the pinnacle of pop stardom, Tina Turner has died at age 83. She was battling intestinal cancer and total kidney failure. The star died at her home in Switzerland where she had lived since 1994. Her reps said the cause was not immediately clear.

She was the first female African-American artist to appear on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame twice, once as part of her husband Ike and a second time for her solo work. She also was awarded a Kennedy Center Honor and two Grammy awards and had a lauded acting career that included a wild one-scene role as the Acid Queen in director Ken Russell's 1969 rock opera Tommy. Turner later made a comeback as a musical performer in the 1980s and had a string of hits including Private Dancer that helped cement her status as a music legend.

The '80s brought Turner back into the mainstream, a new generation discovering her via videos on a nascent MTV. She recorded duets with Mick Jagger and David Bowie, encapsulating the decade's fashion sense in her spiky blond hairdo, cropped jeans jacket and stiletto heels. Turner's bluntly-worded ballads resonated with a post-punk world that valued electronically-produced sounds and scorned hippie-era idealism.

Despite her soaring popularity, she experienced a series of setbacks that included financial difficulties and a public breakup with Ike, whom she married in 1966. In the late '80s, she found a longtime partner in German actor and music executive Erwin Bach. She would release a pair of albums that sold well in Europe and sing the U2-penned theme for the 1995 James Bond film GoldenEye.

Turner's story of struggle and triumph captivated fans worldwide and inspired generations of young women and men. "She showed women and men that maybe you can be in the valley, but you can get up out of it, and look good doing it," fellow singer Janet Jackson once said.

In a rare moment of vulnerability, Turner was open about her abuse from Ike in the 1960s and '70s. She described bruised eyes and a busted lip as she struggled to survive the violent relationship.

She had been open about her health struggles as well, with her latest medical crisis involving the onset of total kidney failure that required a transplant. Her condition worsened and she retired from the stage in 2009, announcing that she had cancer of the digestive tract and was suffering from severe depression. Her final album was the 2005 compilation All The Best. In 2021, she was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a solo artist. She received a Lifetime Achievement award from the Recording Academy in 2017. The White House called her a "once-in-a-lifetime talent" and US President Joe Biden praised her as an inspiration to young people. Hundreds of tributes poured in for her on social media and at her homes in Switzerland and California.