{"id":355815,"date":"2026-03-20T08:43:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:43:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355815\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:43:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T08:43:15","slug":"tina-turners-image-sold-to-company-behind-abba-holograms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/355815\/","title":{"rendered":"Tina Turner’s image sold to company behind ABBA holograms"},"content":{"rendered":"

Tina Turner died nearly three years ago<\/a>, but that\u2019s not going to stop people from monetizing her name, image, likeness, and most of her music catalog. Swedish company Pophouse Entertainment has just acquired all of these things from the music company BMG, the Associated Press reports<\/a> today. Pophouse CEO Jessica Koravos told the outlet that Turner\u2019s estate was not involved \u201cas a counterparty but certainly involved and in the sense of informed and participating in the conversations\u201d regarding the sale. Those conversations began after Turner\u2019s death.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Founded by ABBA member Bj\u00f6rn Ulvaeus, Pophouse is probably most famous for its work with that band, including ABBA Voyage, the virtual concert residency consisting of \u201cABBAtars,\u201d as in holograms<\/a>. AP reports that Koravos wouldn\u2019t confirm yet whether there was a Tina Turner on the way but did say they would make an announcement about it in the next six months, which definitely makes it sound like there\u2019s a Tina Turner hologram on the way, if you ask us. \u201cWhat we want to do is really help to consolidate her legacy,\u201d Koravos said. \u201cI think that Tina Turner is up there, or is going to be up there, with the Elvises and the Marilyn Monroes of the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not hard to imagine why a company like this, which has bought Cyndi Lauper\u2019s catalog and the entire KISS brand in recent years, would be interested in Turner. Beyond her music, Turner\u2019s story of resilience and reclaiming her own agency<\/a> resonated with people across the world and across generations. Trying to capture that with an avatar seems like a fool\u2019s errand, but in a time when deceased movie stars are being recreated wholesale by AI<\/a> for movies, we can\u2019t say we\u2019re especially surprised that someone decided to try. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tina Turner died nearly three years ago, but that\u2019s not going to stop people from monetizing her name,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355816,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,61,60,278],"class_list":["post-355815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355815","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355815\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}