The stage has been her home since the early 1960s: until the late 1990s, Tina Turner was one of the biggest live stars in the world. Then she withdrew into private life with her partner Erwin.

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She was just the best. Tina remains "Simply the best" - forever. Whenever life gave her the blues, Tina Turner made it rock 'n' roll.

No one lived the stage louder: Tina Turner sold more than 200 million records during her world career.

She ruled the stage with her music, which had a healing effect on her listeners. Hailing from Brownsville, Tennessee, she was a force to be reckoned with, strutting on her stiletto heels like a volcanic eruption. Tina's songs profoundly impacted people's emotions, and her unique rhythm dance style was impossible to imitate.

Since the news of his death, Tina Turner's fans have been laying flowers and other souvenirs of their idol on the famous Hollywood "Walk of Fame."

For Turner, the word "comeback" was invented. That's what actress Angela Bassett (64) once said about the artist she embodied 30 years ago in the film adaptation of Tina's life story ("What's love got to do with it").

Bassett was nominated for an Oscar. She and Tina became friends.

No world star has fallen so low so often and still got up repeatedly. Grew up in modest circumstances.

The father is Deacon in a Baptist church. The US South is still torn apart by racial segregation. As an African American woman, her mother had to give birth to her in the hospital's basement. The upper floors were reserved for the whites.

Time of disaster: Tina Turner and Ike

Then came the music, the love, the hits...

At 19, Ike enters her life. Tina becomes the background singer in his band. But she quickly steals the show from him—a toxic love with no way out between drum sound and guitar riff.

Jealousy, broken by drugs, drive Ike. The fans want to see his wife on stage. He wants to stand in front of her. So the fans look past him.

Marriage in 1962, successes, big tours, beatings, and reconciliations repeatedly.

DESPITE SERIOUS ILLNESS 3 years ago, Tina hoped for a "second chance."

Until it is no longer possible, she forgives him for almost everything for a long time, adopts Ike's eldest sons (Ike Jr. and Michael), and loves them as her own from a previous affair (Craig). Unfortunately, he killed himself in 2018. One of those low blows that the musician (more than 200 million records sold) has to cope with repeatedly.

Just a few months ago, the son from his marriage to Ike also died. Ronnie collapses seriously ill on the street in Los Angeles at the end of 2022.

Tina - the invincible

His mother is also battling cancer and hardly sheds any tears. Friends say the news pierced Tina's heart, but her soul is already hardened from all the scars.

Tina - the invincible: "I lived, I died, and I had to learn to survive," she once said.

Private Dancer” – the comeback of the century

The moment of her second birth was in 1976 when the singer only "wanted to get out." Turner decides for himself and gives up millions. She buys her freedom and is left with nothing. When the Turner leaves Ike, he takes everything from her - except her pride: the money, the cars, the houses.

Tina is down, but never down. Her first solo records flop. Then the resurrection, unprecedented to this day. "Private Dancer" will be the "comeback of the century." The album sells 20 million copies. Suddenly Turner is "Simply the Best" again. And it's going to heaven professionally. Their follow-up albums (including "Wildest Dreams") conquer the top of the charts until 1999.

Tina Turner and her Erwin met in the mid-80s

The German Erwin Bach becomes her lifesaver.

But more importantly, Turner has already found her true love here. He becomes her lifesaver on so many levels. The German music manager Erwin Bach has made Tina's private life a hit since the mid-80s. 

In 1994 the couple moved to Switzerland and lived on a property worth millions near Küsnacht on Lake Zurich. Even before they married in 2013, they got through bad times together. Turner struggled with health issues for years. Finally, in 2017, Bach donated a kidney to his wife.

Tina Turner and her son Craig. He died in 2018

"I feel every beating heart."

They lived withdrawn, only there for each other. In the video for her 80th birthday, a strong Tina greeted her fans: "How did I introduce myself when I was 80? Well, not like that! I look good, feel great, and am healthy after a long illness. It feels like a second chance at life. I'm happy to be 80."

2013: Tina Turner marries her great love, Erwin Bach. He healed her heart.

Turner once said about her songs: "Whether I reach people on the radio or in the stadium. It doesn't matter to me. I feel every beating heart.”

Your own has now stopped beating. The comeback queen will not return this time. She's fought enough. For yourself, for others.

Her music will remain immortal.