Hometown Of Tina Turner In Tennessee Unveils Statue Of The Queen Of Rock-N-Roll [VIDEO]

Tina Turner has quietly been honored in her hometown of Brownsville, Tennessee, for the past decade, but on Sept. 27, the Rock ‘n’ Roll legend received another honor, this one cast in bronze. 

A 10-foot statue of rock n’ roll queen Tina Turner was unveiled Saturday in the rural Tennessee community where she grew up.  The statue was revealed during a ceremony at a park in Brownsville, located about an hour drive east of Memphis. The city of about 9,000 people is near Nutbush, in which she sang about in one of her many smash hits  “Nutbush City Limits,” where Turner went to school as a child. As a teen, she attended Carver High School just steps from where the statue now stands at Heritage Park.  The statue, sculpted by world-renowned Atlanta artist Fred Ajanogha.

Anna Mae Bullock, famously known as Tina Turner, the ‘Queen of Rock’n Roll’ died peacefully in 2023 at the age of 83 after a long illness in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.

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