Tina Turner: Music legend dies at 83 in Switzerland
Tina Turner has died at the age of 83 after a long illness. She fell asleep peacefully in her house in Küsnacht Zürich, Switzerland.
Tina Turner has died at the age of 83 after a long illness. She fell asleep peacefully in her house in Küsnacht Zürich, Switzerland.
The great sadness in the music world: pop legend Tina Turner died at the age of 83 in her home in Küsnacht ZH. The first message about her death comes from her personal Instagram account.
A statement on her death reads: “With her, the world loses a music legend and role model.” As “Mirror” reports, a private funeral ceremony will take place for close friends and family.
Beginnings with Ike Turner
Turner rose to fame in the 1960s and 1970s as a duo with then-husband Ike Turner (1931-2007). Hits like “River Deep – Mountain High” and “Nutbush City Limits” stormed the charts in many countries. As Turner revealed much later, the marriage had more downs than ups — her husband hit and bullied her. She fled from him at the age of 37. Turner gave up all financial entitlements from their music making together to get through the divorce quickly and launched a solo career under her own name.
At the age of 45, Turner was again in the spotlight: the album “Private Dancer” helped her to her final breakthrough in 1984. From then on she filled stadiums and music stages all over the world and landed numerous hits: “What’s Love Got To Do With It?”, “Proud Mary”, “We Don’t Need Another Hero” or “Be Tender with Me Baby” are just a few of that.
On the Olympus of the music world
The American with a Swiss passport, which she received in 2013, has won numerous music awards. In 2021 she was inducted as a solo artist into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, USA. “If they’re still giving me awards at 81, I must have done something right,” she joked at the ceremony via video link from Switzerland.
Turner had two biological sons who predeceased her at ages 59 and 62. The American suffered from colon cancer and kidney problems, her husband Erwin Bach (67) donated one of his kidneys to her in 2017. She also suffered a stroke in 2013. In the autobiography “My Love Story” in 2019 she reported on many painful experiences in life, but honored Bach as her savior and the greatest love of her life.
Turner has rarely appeared in public in recent years – for example to promote a book or a musical about her life story. She has lived on Lake Zurich since the 1990s with her German partner, who is 16 years her junior.
In love with Küsnacht , Zurich (Swiss)
For her 75th, Turner gave herself and her new home community a Christmas Lights gift. On the birthday itself, the community switched on the luminous gift with the sonorous name “Golden Branch” for the first time. The Swiss also fulfilled her duties as a citizen and went to the ballot box to vote. Turner learned German and praised her new homeland, she enthused that she had arrived here. The food also suits her, she likes cheese and loves Bürli, she said in an interview. The sympathy and esteem Turner felt for Switzerland was mutual. In December 2021, the singer and actress was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern for her “unique musical-artistic life’s work”.