Tina Turner has been immortalized in the form of a statue in her Tennessee hometown.

An unveiling of the 10-feet fixture took place on Saturday (Sept. 27) during annual celebration of Turner’s life titled Tina Turner Heritage Days in Brownsville, a neighborhood which is about an hour east of Memphis and close to Nutbush, where the late singer grew up.

The statue was designed by sculptor Fred Ajanogha, who told Associated Press that “he tried to capture her flexibility of movement on stage, how she held the microphone with her index finger extended, and her hair style, which he compared to the ‘mane of a lion.'”

The outlet noted, “The statue was sculpted in clay by Ajanogha in Atlanta and cast in bronze by a West Tennessee foundry, and took about a year to complete.” The proje

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