She was born in 1939 to sharecroppers in Tennessee and given the name Anna Mae Bullock (viaWDET).
It was patented as you call it."
Winfrey clarified what that meant, asking, “So he could own you.”
Turner confirmed, “So he could own me” (viaYouTube).
“He just came home from the record company.
He said, ‘Here’s the record.’
And I said, ‘Who’s Tina?’
He said, ‘You’reTina!’
And I said, “Tina?
It was really hard to say in the beginning.”
Indeed, very different from Anna Mae Bullock.
So Ike Turner gave Tina her name before the two were married in 1962 (via WDET).
I never in my life saw a woman so powerful, so fearless, so fabulous.
Andthose legs…” (viaiHeart Radio).
