TINA TURNER TRIBUTE
STARRING COOKIE WATKINS
Cookie Watkins Biography
Cookie Watkins brings more than a celebrity impersonation to her performance. An
international touring Tribute Artist, Cookie has entertained hundreds of thousands of Tina
Turner fans around the world. Critics and fans alike consider her as the number one
tribute to Tina Turner in the world.
Music has been Cookie’s mainstay since Duke Ellington brought her onstage to warble out a
few tunes at the ripe age of fourteen. The Duke gave Cookie a coming-out party at the
Rainbow Room when she turned eighteen. She even warranted a special mention in his
book “Music Is My Mistress.”
Always thought of as the little girl with the big woman’s voice, Cookie studied opera and
classical music before her out-of-the-box smash hit “Can’t Judge a Book by Its Cover”
brought her to the forefront of the dance movement. Soon she was lending her vocal
expertise to such smash hits as Shades of Love’s “Keep in Touch” (Body to Body).
No stranger to Broadway, Cookie also performed in hit stage musicals like “Guys & Dolls,’
“Sweet Charity,” and “Hair” before touring with the original cast of “Beehive” and Marie
Wilson.
Cookie allows the audience to savor the saucy effects of Tina’s “Higher” before a seamless
transition to the throaty “Better Be Good to Me” followed by “What’s Love Got To Do With
It?”. But Cookie and her audience know nothing tops the high-energy stand-up hit and
closer “Proud Mary,” and that is exactly what Cookie does Tina---“Proud!”
Tina – Tribute to the Queen of Rock N’ Roll
