Toy firm Mattel is honoring Tina Turner on the fortieth anniversary of her hit track What’s Love Received To Do With It with a Barbie doll created in her likeness.
The doll, which is a part of their Barbie Signature Music Sequence, is carrying an outfit impressed by the music video for the track – a black mini costume paired with a denim jacket and her signature coiffure.
“I’m honored to welcome my Barbie into the group of trailblazing ladies already represented and introduce extra youngsters to my journey,” Turner, 82, mentioned in an announcement.
Image of a Barbie doll created by Mattel resembling singer Tina Turner. (MATTEL/Handout by way of REUTERS)
The eight-time Grammy winner loved big success within the late Nineteen Sixties and early Seventies performing along with her former husband, Ike Turner, however the couple divorced in 1978 after a stormy marriage.
In early November 2019, Turner attended the opening evening of The Tina Turner Musical on Broadway, which chronicles her life and work.
She retired from performing after her final tour, which led to 2009.
Turner, who was born in Tennessee, moved to Switzerland in 1995 to affix her German-born file producer companion Erwin Bach, who she later married in 2013, and have become a citizen in April of that 12 months. The doll is out there for buy on MattelCreations.com and thru Amazon, Walmart and Goal.
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