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Brownsville, Tennessee, wanted to honour its most famous daughter, Tina Turner, but it ended up becoming a meme instead.

Over the weekend, a 10-foot bronze statue of Turner was unveiled in Heritage Park, located near her former high school.

The monument, designed by Atlanta-based sculptor Fred Ajanogha, was meant to capture the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll mid-performance: microphone in hand, hair wild, legs powering the kind of strut that filled arenas.

The project was backed by Ford Motor Company, which chipped in $150,000 (£118,000) through its Good Neighbor Plan.

‘We are proud to support this statue in the community where Tina Turner’s journey began,’ Ford Community Re

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