Tina Turner as soon as recalled how she bought her iconic stage title from her ex-husband, Ike Turner

• In 2020, Tina Turner recalled to CBS Information’ Gayle King how she bought her iconic stage title.
• Turner mentioned the moniker got here from her former husband Ike Turner after the 2 recorded a tune collectively.
• The music icon and “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll” died on Wednesday at 83.

Tina Turner as soon as recalled how she bought her iconic stage title — and mentioned it took some getting used to.

Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock, advised CBS Information in a 2020 interview that her former husband Ike Turner picked the stage title when the 2 recorded their debut single “A Idiot In Love” within the early 60s. 

Turner — who died Wednesday at age 83 — advised CBS Information’ Gayle King that when the document arrived from the label, she noticed the names “Ike & Tina Turner” on it and requested Ike the place the title got here from.

She had beforehand appeared on her first document as “Little Ann.”

“I mentioned, ‘Who’s Tina?’ and he mentioned, ‘You are Tina,'” Turner recalled. 

What’s now one of the crucial recognized and revered stage names in historical past was as soon as laborious for Turner to get used to, she advised King. 

“It was actually laborious to say to start with,” she mentioned. 

The 2 Turners grew to become one of the crucial profitable musical acts of the Sixties and ’70s, releasing hits similar to “River Deep — Mountain Excessive” and “Proud Mary.” 

Turner has repeatedly recounted the home abuse and harrowing violence she confronted from Ike in memoirs similar to 1986’s I, Tina. The very best-selling autobiography was tailored into the 1993 movie What’s Love Received to Do With It starring Angela Bassett. 

The music icon died on Wednesday, her household mentioned in a press release. Tributes poured in for the legendary singer, who gained eight Grammys and was dubbed the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll.”

Bassett herself weighed in on the singer’s loss of life, writing partially in a press release to CNN: “Tina Turner confirmed others who lived in concern what a phenomenal future full of love, compassion, and freedom ought to seem like. Her remaining phrases to me – for me – had been ‘You by no means mimicked me. As an alternative, you reached deep into your soul, discovered your inside Tina, and confirmed her to the world.'”

“I shall maintain these phrases near my coronary heart for the remainder of my days,” the “Black Panther” star wrote. 

Different celebrities who paid tribute to Turner on Wednesday included Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger, and singers Ciara and Gloria Gaynor.