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tina. what's love got to do? got to do with it. the legacy of a legend behind hits like what's love got to do with it? and emotion. the queen of rock and roll, whose life was even bigger than her music, inspiring generations of stars. i never in my life saw a woman so powerful , so fearless and millions of fans. the abuse she survived. i stayed because i cared. and when the time actually arrived, i had no longer cared because i was actually living a living death anyway. and the global icon, she became the tributes pouring in for a performer who was simply the best. you simply the best.
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plus, michelle yeoh, michelle right here. beautiful breaking barriers from high flying stunts with jackie chan and supercop to starring as the first chinese bond girl in tomorrow never dies . and now her trailblazing oscar win for everything everywhere, all at once. and ladies, don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. never give up my interview about kicking down hollywood's bamboo ceiling . we shattered it to a gazillion pieces where it will never be put back together again. and her new role on the show, american born chinese is not as a disney princess may be able to help, but as a goddess. nightline will be right back. with occasional nerve aches in your hands or feet? try nerve five nerve relief from the world's number one nerve care company. nerve five contains ala to relieve nerve aches and b complex vitamins to fortify
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single one of us can make the stars align. because when we come together, hope and joy will shine. i think i saw you. you. thanks for joining us tonight. the world reacting to news that tina turner, the queen of rock and roll, has died at the age of 83. with her raw talent and that raspy voice, she commanded the stage with a presence that most performers can only dream of and change the music world forever. you're simply the best. to millions across the globe, tina turner and all the rest was simply the best. anyone
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she was the queen of rock and roll. but to her fans, she was so much more. a survivor, a warrior, a superstar. the energy of rock n roll is what i am about. it's naughty. it's fun. it's. it's. it's movement. and that's what i like. and that's ag, she wa dance movesgointo brought the heat. and that voice . rolling. the fire in that voice brought the house down. once i hit the stage, i become an actress, acting out each song, being totally involved with each word. and immediately the next song i go into it, i become that song. and whatever that the story of that song is told together, the what you see here, if you say, who's the queen of rock and roll, the answer is tina turner. tina turner looked better in her 40s
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than a lot of us looked when we were like 21, because what you get is what you see throughout her legendary career. turner took home 12 grammys, sold nearly 200 million records worldwide, and broke barriers along the way, becoming the first black artist and first woman to grace the cover of rolling stone magazine. i cannot overstate how much permission she gave women black women, definitely, but women, period. a beloved icon to millions across generations. tina turner passed away earlier today at her home in switzerland. she was 83 years old. trip is pouring in from around the world. angela bassett remembering the woman she once played on the big screen. how do we say farewell to a woman who owned her pain and trauma and used it as a means to help change the world? oprah, writing about how tina turner inspired her. she is our forever goddess of rock and roll who contained a magnitude of inner strength that grew throughout her life. all right, where's tina? na na na na
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na na. mick jagger famously shared the stage with tina at live aid in 1985 together singing the rolling stones hit it's only rock n roll. it's only rock and roll. but i like it tonight, he remembered his friend writing. i'm so saddened by the passing of my wonderful friend tina turner. she helped me so much when i was young, and i will never forget her. tina turner's presence in the music industry was colossal. when you see beyonce on stage during her renaissance world tour, you're seeing tina turner, beyonce just didn't come out of nowhere and beyonce has said this herself, that she got this from is tina turner. she inspired generations of music royalty like queen bee herself, who paid tribute to the trailblazing legend at her 2005 kennedy center honors. i never in my life saw a woman so powerful, so fearless, so fabulous. and those legs. but
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before tina became tina, she had to rise up from hardship. born in tennessee in 1939 as anna mae bullock, the daughter of sharecroppers abandoned by her parents as a teenager for my father, was a sharecropper and actually when i grew up, i worked in the fields picking cotton, and i always dreamed of being an actress while i was in the fields working. i mean, i hated that. i didn't like it at all. she finally escaped nutbush when she moved to saint louis in the mid 50s and saint louis is where she she met ike turner, and what she yearned to do was to get the chance to sing with that band because she knew she had a great voice. she was just 17 when she first took the stage singing during intermission at an ike turner show. she quickly joined the kings of rhythm, ike's band and began recording with the group in 1958. it was ike who gave her her name, tina. together, they put out nearly 40 albums. many of which sold millions of copies. but behind
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the glitz and glam hitting the top of the charts and the grammys, a darker side and her husband abusive of the bigger they got. i must have thought, i've got this good thing here. i can never let her go. i did as i was told, and it's almost as if you can put yourself in a position of always being told and even it just doesn't feel good all the time to be under someone's hand. is that what it was like? he was in total control? absolutely if you listen to the way that tina laid it out, it was physical abuse. i think that people really became wholly aware once that feature film came out in the early 90s that angela bassett earned her first oscar nomination for portraying tina turner. my husband and i just had a fight. i'm supposed to open at the academy tonight, but she was a survivor. tina left ike in 1976 with $0.36 and a gas card in her pocket. tina turner probably brought bought more attention to
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domestic abuse than anyone had up to that up to that point. ike turner eventually died from a drug overdose in 2007in 1982. tina sat down with abc's 20 over 20, but when he was bitter, he was just real awful and real difficult to get along with. and by being a sort of a physically violent man, you never knew when you were going to get it. my life with ike was was one that a lot of maybe people are familiar with the husbands that that is that practice brutality. why did you stay so long then i felt responsible. i felt that i couldn't leave because too many things would be destroyed. and i stayed because i cared. and when the time actually arrived, i had no longer cared because i was actually living a living death anyway. so hard to heal. but tina was tina turner. she was determined not to stay down and out for long. it's probably
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going to be one of the most talked about comeback. it's forever in pop music. i listen to what i say. it's just persistence. and if you believe in yourself and you are good at what you do and you know that you are and you have no doubts, the thought alone and believing it will make it happen for you. oh what's love got to do? in 1984, her hit what's love got to do with it? hitting the very top of the us billboard hot 100 list. what's left at the age of 45 of she won four grammys for that song. it meant a lot that tina turner didn't slow down as a black woman in her 40s i'm going to kick down a door, walk inside of it and show and prove who i am and what i can do. and that's exactly what tina turner did. oh, she is. she's got style and grace and class. she makes you feel young. she's alive. i feel like i'm 28. going to come back. she had me dazzled. i mean, the minute she came on, that's it. she took his hand as
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they walked along that gold beach. she made history in 1991, being inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame as the duo ike and tina. she was later inducted as a solo artist again in 2021. if they're still giving me awards at 81, i must have done something right. yeah, this is mine. tina retired in 2009 after her last tour. four years later, she tied the knot with her partner of more than three decades, erwin bach, a german record executive in switzerland, where she stayed after relinquishing her us citizenship . despite stepping away from the stage. her life and legacy featured in a broadway production, tina the tina turner musical. all this musical all is my life. but it's like poison that turned to medicine.
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tina turner's legacy is strength. you know, you hear the strength and the way that she delivered a song, the raspy kind of aggressive vocals. but you also hear it when you know anything about her story. she strength. hers was a story of pain and fortitude, turmoil and triumph. through it all, tina turner inspired generations, not just with her voice, but with her songs, her grace and her fighting spirit and every interview all over the world. people ask me, when are you going to slow down? and i tell them that i'm just getting started. won't you please, please tell me. , please tell me how she's making history and breaking barriers in hollywood. oh and she just won an academy award. my conversation with award. my conversation with michelle yeoh.
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hulu. michelle yeoh refuses to fit a stereotype. the former miss malaysia stereo type. the former ms. malaysia turned martial arts start spent decades in hollywood playing everything from regal nobility to a star ship captain and breaking the mold every step of the way. i caught up with her in the mids of of her oscar victory lap. >> and the oscar goes to michelle yeoh, everywhere, all i
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want. >> you kung ceiling what did it feel like to be the first asian actress to win an oscar. >> people that never gave up on us trying to kick the bamboo ceiling down and with this one win we shattered it into a gazillion pieces where it will never be put back together again. >> juju: michelle yeoh sat down with us fresh off a barrier shattering oscar winor everything everywhere all at once. >> thank you. . >> juju: it's a chance to reflect on how it all started and just how far she's come. >> you burst on to american cinema on the back of a motorcycle with jackie chan. >> yes. >> juju: her death defying stunts in decades worth of hong
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kong action films culminating in 1992 with police story three super cop. >> when i started out in hong kong at that time in the '80s, it was come dis, action, action come dis. the first movie i was in was an action film we played the in distress we had to be rescued by the bad guys all the time. but when i looked at martial arts it was exactly like choreography for dance, there was no room for chance or anything, everything was choreographed, arch pump, each kick, each whatever. >> juju: choreography and physicality have been central to her artistry as a teen she trained in ballet until a spinal injury forced her end her dreams of dance but she knew in her bones no was not an answer. >> how hard was it to translate the ballet into the martial arts of it? >> that was not the difficult
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part because having trained as a ballerina and after i hurt myself i broadened my outlook of what was dance. but because i was always a sports person, i was very in-tune with the way i moved. so like when you ask how easy was it to -- it's like one movement to another. ballet is all about turning out. martial arts was all about getting in there. so it was just being -- listening, looking. >> juju: she broke ground playing a spy in the james bond film "tomorrow never dies". >> i remember one interview someone saying to me oh you're going to be in a bond movie i thought great i get to be james bond now. >> juju: well that would be perfect. >> see, that was my goal. bond girl? no, i want to be james. >> juju: that's amazing. that incapsulates all of you. you said that you get your fighting spirit from your dad. >> i think he empowered me.
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that's, i think for me that was most important, he believed that you have -- you choose your own path. he said you mid to choose what you want to do. you will not come back to me years later and said i am a doctor or a lawyer, because, you know, that's what you wanted my to do and we know of a lot of parents who feel they need to instill that in their children to ensure they have a stable good life. >> in recent years yeoh's taken rollss that span the full range of asian story lines playing the matriarch in crazy rich asians and returning to her march chart arts moves for marvel shang xi movie. and this year finally taking the statue at the academy awards. >> for all the boys and girls who look like me tonight, this is the beacon of hope and
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possibilities. and ladies don't let anybody tell you you are ever past your prime. never give up. >> juju: i know you've lost your dad. what was it like to hand that oscar to your mom? >> i did take the oscar to my dad. after the oscars i had to go back to work because i'm doing wicked in london, once i had a couple of weeks off i went to poll first so my mom could be the first one to hold the oscar in her hand. >> juju: amazing. so you presented it to your mom and asians, we revere our ancestors. >> uh-huh. >> juju: you took the oscar to your dad. >> yes, yes. you know how our parents do mold us in some way. because he really empowered me, even as a child, to have confidence in who i am. because, you know, in a lot of asian families kids should be
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heard and not seen. >> juju: and soon michelle will dazzle disney audiences acting in american born chinese. >> you must stop or everyone will perish. >> juju: what does that mean to bring asian fairytales and asian folk heroes to a wider audience. >> very important because what i want to do is share my culture with my friends here, and if they don't know who the goddes of mercy is maybe they will. >> juju: and the monkey king. >> and the monkey king. nowadays everybody is so open to embracing each other and that's the only way we can move forward to a better planet for a better world. that's what we have to do. we are different and we should love that. that makes our world colorful. but we should also learn about each other. >> juju: and for more with michelle yeoh and other trail blazers leading the way, tune in to the new face of hollywood, a soul of a nation presentation, this friday at 8:00 7:00
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