What OldSchool Singer Refused Role Of Shug Avery In The Color Purple?

Posted On : November 28, 2014

We don’t know what fountain of youth these beautiful ladies have found, but we’ll take a to-go cup from that fountain too!

Here’s Tina with her new husband and German music executive Erwin Bach. They married in July 2013, after a 27-year relationship, on the banks of Lake Zurich in Küsnacht, northern Switzerland.

Tina Turner and husband
Tina Turner and husband, Erwin Bach

Margaret Avery (Shug Avery) is now 70 years young and she’s still acting. She stars in the current hit TV show, Being Mary Jane, alongside Gabrielle Union.

Shug avery- Margaret Avery2
Margaret Avery (“Shug Avery” in The Color Purple)
Margaret Avery (played "Shug Avery" in The Color Purple)
Margaret Avery (played “Shug Avery” in The Color Purple)

Reminisce with us and watch this classic performance of “God Is Trying To Tell You Something” performed by “Shug Avery” in The Color Purple. Everybody and their Mommas probably shed a tear for this scene…

PREVIOUS PAGE

About I Love Old School Music

We salute the incredible people and beautiful memories of that "old school". We’re not saying that every artist and every facet of the soul era was perfect, but the artists’ contributions to soul music and the old school memories of that particular time are PRICELESS.