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Ms. Reuben came up with a antidote for her "ER" overdose: becoming a backup singer for Tina Turner, whom she met at a "VH1 Divas" concert in 1999.
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Eventually, he worked as a sideman with Jimmy Witherspoon, and with Ike and Tina Turner, and he continued to make his own recordings as a leader, something he began doing while still in Coltrane's group.
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Songwriters including Holly Knight, who penned Pat Benatar's Love Is A Battlefield and The Best for Tina Turner, will also be honoured.
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By the mid-1960s he had gone in a slightly different direction, joining the Ike and Tina Turner Revue.
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Tina, at fifty-three, is still performing and recording, and in the absence of the snuffed-out-in-her-prime option, the screenwriter, Kate Lanier, and the director, Brian Gibson, have constructed the movie as a kind of feminist survival story: Tina (Angela Bassett) rises to fame as part of a husband-and-wife act, the Ike and Tina Turner Revue, but then breaks away from her brutal, domineering spouse (Laurence Fishburne) and climbs back to the top of the charts on her own.
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