Swiss President Alain Berset: With Tina Turner’s death, the world has lost its symbol tweeted Wednesday after he died at the age of 83. He called the singer, who has lived in Switzerland since 1995, “an impressive woman who has found her second home” in Switzerland.
On Thursday, roses and candles were placed outside the gates of Turner’s home in Kuessnacht, on the golden coast of Lake Zurich. “You’re just the best,” reads a handwritten tribute to her singer, paying tribute to one of her most famous songs.
Turner was “a proud citizen of Kusnacht,” the municipality said. statement, She added that she touched many with her “warmth and humility.” According to her statement, Turner sponsored a rescue boat named “TINA” and donated Christmas lights.
“She’s become totally European,” British music journalist Lloyd Bradley said in an emailed comment Thursday, adding that this has helped her maintain her success in Europe. She said, “British audiences at least seemed to see her as ‘ours’.”
in an interview with In 1997, CNN’s Larry King explained why Turner abandoned his life in the United States. “Basically Europe has been very supportive of my music,” she said. “Private Dancer was the beginning of my success in England,” she says of her fifth solo studio album, recorded in London and released in 1984, which eventually went multi-platinum. rice field.
When King asked if Europe was supporting her more than America, Turner smiled and said, “Yes.” “Yes, very well.”
“But you’re a big star here. You’re an American superstar,” King said. I am as big as the Madonna of Europe. ”
Even when Turner was part of a musical duo with her abusive husband Ike, she felt a different level of recognition in Europe. While most of Ike and Tina Turner’s hits have remained on the US R&B circuit, their songs have found mainstream success in the UK, which “has a long history of appreciating black American musical styles,” according to The Washington Post. The paper previously reported. The Rolling Stones opened for Ike and Tina’s first UK tour in 1965.
Turner’s stay in England played an important role even after he broke up with Ike in 1976 and made a name for himself as a solo artist.
“In the late 1970s, unable to buy hits in the United States and largely relegated to cabaret, it was her smart move to take over an Australian management team with strong European connections. ‘ said Bradley.
“Thanks to the live work she got there, she escapes the ‘nostalgia tag’ and reinvents herself with the help of quintessential British/European electronic music wizards Marsh & Ware. I was able to. … Interestingly for her, this sound was a huge hit in the US and allowed her to market herself to her home country as a very modern rock star. ”
Turner also praised British star David Bowie for guaranteeing him a deal with Capitol Records. Bowie told company officials he was going to see his favorite singer. They just signed me because I was David,” she told the Post in a 1993 interview.
Turner also elaborated on how he achieved more lasting success in Europe in a 1996 interview with 60 Minutes. “The thing I think about homeland is that nothing lasts,” Turner said. “Europe is different.”
Turner told 60 Minutes that many people outside of Europe were stunned when she explained that she was an even bigger star in Europe than in the United States. “No one in America knows that, which means people are always shocked when I explain,” she said.
Selling more concert tickets than any other solo artist in the history of music, Turner has toured countless continents for his adoring fans, from London to Paris, Berlin to Prague. “She was a bona fide female rock legend, and … very few Europeans, even European adoptees like Tina and Chrissie Hynde,” said Bradley.
British fan Greg Rose, who loved the singer enough to throw a Tina Turner-themed 30th birthday party, wrote on Facebook that the singer has been “tacked” to his bedroom wall since he was a teenager. , wrote that he had seen her over 70 years old. at her concert.
Bruno Garces, a London-based Brazilian journalist, said his fascination with Turner began as a teenager. The 50-year-old said he still finds inspiration in her. “Her life story encapsulates the very concept of her resilience, strength and overcoming. What she has gone through is unbelievable,” he said in an interview Thursday.
Beyond her career success, Europe was important to Turner in another way. Europe was where she met her future husband, German music executive Erwin Bach. The two met in 1985, spent almost 40 years together, and got married in 2013. After that, we lived together in Germany and then in Switzerland.
On social media, many hailed Turner’s decision to leave American soil and settle in Europe as inspiration.
American-born, European-based writer Joy C. Mitchell Said On Wednesday, Turner announced that she was “one of the first black American women” to move to Europe and see her find “career success and love.” Turner “was, in a way, a blueprint,” Mitchell writes. She “always imagined meeting her and telling her thank you whenever she was in Switzerland.”
