Why I want to meet Tina Turner
To THANK her – not just for the most electrifying concert I’ve ever seen, but for how much joy she brought to my grandmother, yup, born during World War One! I was learning to appreciate swing bands, and my grandmother borrowed my Tina Turner CDs, and my Ike & Tina Turner . She LOVED them.
I brought her the music DVD. She LOVED it and said, sitting there with her conservative white hair-do, JCPenney dress and matching pumps, with her hands clasped in pleasure, “You just HAVE to love somebody with so much ENERGY and TALENT!”
Grandma often played “Proud Mary” before going to church. She said she could sit through the dullest sermons with that “beat” inside her!
She died a few years ago, but would have been 92 this year. THANK YOU, TINA, for all you and your music did for Grandma! (and me, too!)
