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Happiness Becomes You

2020 memoir by Tina Turner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ97198096 ↗
Source-derived summary

Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good is a memoir published by singer Tina Turner in 2020. It explores details of Turner's life including how she overcame obstacles to achieve happiness and success, and offers Turner's advice on how readers can realize their own dreams. She described the book as a parallel behind-the-scenes story to the HBO documentary film Tina (2021).

Synopsis

In the book, Turner provides inspirational advice and spiritual tools for the reader's self-empowerment and fulfillment, and she shares how her favorite Buddhist principles helped her overcome poverty, prejudice, illness, loss, and other personal and professional challenges.

Reception

The book received positive reviews from Publishers Weekly, Library Journal, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as a starred review from the American Library Association's Booklist.

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“Happiness Becomes You” enters the record as 2020 memoir by Tina Turner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Happiness, Becomes and memoir can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Happiness Becomes You” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.