Rev Tina Turner takes over the reigns at St Mark’s Church in Longwood

Feb 19 2010 By Andrew Hirst

Tina knows what love’s got to do with it

Tina will celebrate her 50th birthday and her 25th wedding anniversary this year.

The couple have three children – 22-year-old Georgina, 21-year-old Joe and 17-year-old Lottie and live in Barkisland.

Tina is a priest in that parish area which includes Barkisland, Ripponden and Rishworth.

She has been a priest for nine years and was a curate in Calderdale, but has also spent time as a priest in south London.

Before she was ordained she worked in public relations for Northamptonshire Youth Service.

“I came back to Yorkshire about 18 months ago and help where needed,’’ she said.

She is standing in at Longwood because the vicar there, the Rev Jim Hunt, is away ill.

Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock on November 26, 1939.

Tina found fame with husband Ike in the 1960s, but it was a troubled relationship and they split in the mid 1970s when she fled from him.

She pursued a solo career and became a megastar in 1984 with the release of her Private Dancer album which sold 11 million copies worldwide.

A single from the album, What’s Love Got To Do With It, shot to number one in the USA – a position she had never reached as Ike and Tina Turner.

Her success went on and on and she eventually won eight Grammy music awards.

Ike died aged 76 from an apparent overdose in December 2007.

Tina now lives with German-born Erwin Bach, her partner of 22 years, in Switzerland and France.