Tina Turner has unfortunately passed away.

After a protracted illness, Tina Turner, a pioneer of rock ‘n’ roll who rose to fame as a pop icon in the 1980s, passed away at the age of 83. Her health had declined recently; she received a diagnosis of intestinal cancer in 2016 and underwent kidney transplantation in 2017.

Mick Jagger acknowledged that Turner’s high-kicking, energising live performances served as inspiration for his stage character because of how she confirmed and accentuated Black women’s early role in rock’n’roll.

After spending two decades making music with her controlling husband Ike Turner, she went it alone and, after a few false starts, with the release of the album Private Dancer, became one of the key pop idols of the 1980s.

Three memoirs, a biography, a jukebox musical, and the acclaimed documentary film Tina all provided accounts of her life. Her spokesman, Bernard Doherty, released the following statement on Wednesday night: “Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll,’ passed away peacefully today at the age of 83 following a protracted illness in her home in Kusnacht, Switzerland, close to Zurich. She leaves behind a musical legend and a role model for the world.

For the Guardian in 2018, academic Daphne A. Brooks stated: “Turner’s musical character has always been a charged combination of mystery as well as light, melancholy mixed with a ferocious vitality that often flirted with danger.” Turner was up near Nutbush, Tennessee, where she recalls picking cotton with her family as a young child. Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939.