
“I dedicate this book to you…in honor of your unseen efforts to triumph over each problem life sends your way,” she wrote of the book. Turner has had her fair share of biographies and memoirs, but her latest one from December, Happiness Becomes You, a personal piece of writing inspired by her own experiences and Buddhist faith. and Michael, who she adopted from Ike Sr.’s former marriage and Ronnie, who she welcomed with Ike. Turner had four children: Craig, who she welcomed with former partner Raymond Hill Ike Jr. Her major-domo, Didier, an enormously tall Swiss man with a bright polo shirt buttoned all the way to his shy face, makes her some oatmeal. (She became a citizen in 2013.) In 2019, journalist Amanda Hess described a day in the life of Turner in the paper: “On a typical day, she gets up. The couple moved here in 1995, according to the Times. The property is shown in TINA it’s a sunny abode with floral-printed furniture, various sculptures, and Turner’s many awards and trophies. Turner and Bach, whom she married in 2013, share an idyllic home (called the Chateau Algonquin) in Zurich, Switzerland. Here’s what she’s been up to.īertrand Rindoff Petroff Getty Images She lives in Switzerland with her husband. Turner has kept out of the public eye in recent years. “I was just tired of singing and making everybody happy,” she recalled to The New York Times. She formally retired in 2009, after her “Tina! 50th Anniversary” tour. But amidst her successes, she also survived terrible abuse from her former husband and musical partner, Ike Turner. She has sold nearly 200 million records and more tickets than any other solo performer in history. Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, has lived quite the life at 81. “And I think this documentary and the play, this is it. “She said, I’m going to America and say goodbye to my American fans and I’ll wrap it up,” he says in the documentary, recalling Turner’s plans ahead of the musical debut. The doc and her 2018 Broadway musical, which tell her life story in their own ways, mark her bittersweet farewell to her fans, her husband Erwin Bach says. After eight Grammys, a number one hit, and an inimitable decades-long career, the music icon takes her curtain call with this two-hour, intimate portrait of her life, premiering tomorrow on HBO. The answer to her question seems to be the very film in which she asks it. “How do you bow out slowly, just go away?” Tina Turner asks, fighting tears, at the end of the documentary, TINA.
