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Member Since: 8/14/2007
Band Members:Bloopers and outtakes
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Influences: TINA TURNER IS MY COUSIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!Among the most popular and influential performers of all time, Tina Turner is legendary for her contributions to Rock, R&B and Soul music. A presence in American music since the 'fifties, Turner's catalog includes dozens of certified hits, including "Fool in Love" (1960), "River Deep, Mountain High" (1966), "Proud Mary" (1971), and "What's Love Got to Do With it?" (1984). The winner of eight Grammy awards, the "Queen of Rock and Roll" was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.Milestones in Tina Turner's ancestry:Between 1790 and 1860, 1 million slaves are forced to move from the upper South to the deep South to create the cotton kingdom. Among them is Lucy Kimbro, Tina Turner's great, great, great grandmother, who is born in North Carolina and forced to move to Tennessee.1805 Tina Turner's great, great, great grandmother Lucy Kimbro is born into slavery in North Carolina. In the same year, the abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison is born in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Garrison will advance abolition through publishing anti-slavery articles in his newspaper, "The Liberator," and forming the Anti-Slavery Society in 1832.Between 1870 and 1888, Logan Currie, Tina Turner's great, great grandfather, marries over 50 African American couples.1866 Tina Turner's great, great grandfather Logan Currie signs a labor contract in Madison County, Tennessee, with Jesse Currie, the man that owned him during slavery. In exchange for land and the resources to cultivate it, Logan promises to grow grain and cotton. Such arrangements came to be known as sharecropping.1889 Benjamin B. Flag, the older brother of Tina Turner's maternal great grandfather, George Flag, sells one acre of his land for a school, Flag Grove School House, in Haywood County, Tennessee.1939 Tina Turner is born Anna Mae Bullock in Haywood, Tennessee.Anna Mae Bullock grew up in Nutbush, Tennessee, the daughter of a black overseer and church deacon father, Floyd Richard, and a part-Native American mother, Zelma Currie (beautician). When she was three, her parents moved away to find better work; grandparents essentially raised Turner and her older sister. Eventually her parents divorced and her mother settled in St. Louis, where Turner moved during high school. It was there that she met Ike Turner at the Club Manhattan.Tina Turner is my cousin on my father's side of the family.My Grandparents are Thomas Currie Sr. and Annie "Nook"My birth name is Teresa R. Currie, daughter of Thomas Currie Jr., born and raised in Tennessee and Minne Lee Elmore, born and raised from Snook, Texas. My mother moved to Dallas when she was 18 and met my father working Parkland Hospital. He moved to Dallas In in teens.I've never met Tina personally but I was told the story of how we are related when I was very young. I often wondered if I should believe this story told to me by my Grandmother, Annie L. Currie (R.I.P.). After reading Tina Turner's autobiography, I am convinced that she is indeed my cousin and I will do more research on my family history to see if I can tie the ends tighter, but for now I pretty amazed that after all the childhood stories I was told by my father and Grandmother about her being my cousin, and then to read her book and see that we do share the name "Currie" fascinated me...what about you? When I find more family facts I'll update this information for you.