University of Bern honors Tina Turner

The laudatory speech honors Tina Turner for her "unique musical and artistic life's work". She has successfully asserted herself as a woman in a previously male-dominated field, breaking through established boundaries and stereotypes with her artistic work and touching many people with her authenticity and artistic charisma. Turner, the laudation continued, has shown an exemplary way out of multiple discriminatory circumstances with her art and is therefore a role model across generations, social classes and educational backgrounds.

Tina Turner was a member of the duo Ike and Tina Turner from 1960 to 1976, which had a lasting impact on rock history. From the early 1980s, she pursued an internationally successful solo career as a singer and later also as an actress.