Tina Turner, the rock star with the iconic voice, died Wednesday. She was 83.

The “What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer died Wednesday “after a long illness” in her home in Kusnacht near Zurich, Switzerland.

“With her, the world loses a music legend and a role model,” Turner’s representatives said, per The Hollywood Reporter.

Turner, who sold 200 million albums and won nine Grammy Awards, rose to fame in the 1960s as the centerpiece of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, a St. Louis blues band turned high-wire rock act. With the success came a disturbing marriage.

Physically battered, emotionally devastated and financially ruined by her 20-year relationship with Ike Turner, she became a superstar on her own in her 40s, at a time when most of her peers were on their way down, and remained a top concert draw for years after.

Her landmark album “Private Dancer,” launched her to solo superstardom at age 44.

At the movies, Turner had roles as the Acid Queen in the Who’s rock opera “Tommy” (1975) and as the ruthless Aunty Entity in “Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome” (1985).

However, it was her 1986 memoir, “I, Tina,” in which she revealed ex-husband Ike Turner’s 16 years of terror, her escape and rise from economic ruin that sealed her most enduring role — as inadvertent activist.

“Do you realize you’re a feminist hero?” Larry King asked her in 1997. “I’m beginning to,” she said.

She was born Anna Mae Bullock in a segregated Tennessee hospital and spent her latter years on a 260,000 square foot estate on Lake Zurich.

Turner was one of the world’s most successful entertainers, known for a core of pop, rock and rhythm and blues favorites: “Proud Mary,” “Nutbush City Limits,” “River Deep, Mountain High,” and the hits she had in the ‘80s, among them “What’s Love Got to Do with It,” “We Don’t Need Another Hero” and a cover of Al Green’s “Let’s Stay Together.”

Her trademarks were her growling contralto, her bold smile and strong cheekbones, her palette of wigs and the muscular, quick-stepping legs she did not shy from showing off.

Tina Turner was honored at the Kennedy Center in 2005, with Beyoncé and Oprah Winfrey among those praising her. Her life became the basis for a film, a Broadway musical and an HBO documentary in 2021 that she called her public farewell.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.