![]() ![]() In 1997, Mom and Dad loaded my siblings and me into our 1987 Chevy Suburban and made the five-hour drive from our home in Doyline, Louisiana, to The Woodlands, Texas, to catch Tina on her “Wildest Dreams” world tour. She recalled seeing Tina and her backing vocalists and dancers, the Ikettes, go so hard onstage that the ribbon ties of Tina’s sandals, starting out near her calves, ended up around her ankles. ![]() ![]() But Mom also shared Tina's triumphs, how she continued to mesmerize and dazzle fans despite the hell she endured. It was something she herself - and most others - didn't know when she and Dad first went to see her live in the '70s. Mom, like Tina, didn't sugarcoat the superstar's history: Off-stage, Ike was beating her. I quickly consulted an expert on the matter: my mom, who as a teenager in the '60s, had been listening to Tina since she first made hits with her then-husband Ike. ![]() “Who was this magnificent woman?” I thought as the lyrics of the song “I Might Have Been Queen (Soul Survivor),” flowed through the headphones of my Walkman. I look through it all and my future’s no shock to me.” “I look up to the stars with my perfect memory. What I found was astonishing: an album called “Private Dancer.” ![]()
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