Death of Tina Turner
Rock singer Tina Turner has died at the age of 83 in Küsnacht on Lake Zurich after a long illness.
Born in the USA, she is one of the world's most influential singers, having sold over 180 million records, but was also a successful actress. She became a Swiss citizen in 2013. In 2021, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Bern, according to the laudation for, among other things, "a unique musical and artistic life's work" and because she "successfully asserted herself as a woman in a previously male-dominated field".
Tina Turner gained her first singing experience in a Baptist church, from 1960 to 1976 she was a member of the duo Ike and Tina Turner, from the early 1980s she launched a successful international solo career as a singer, and later also as an actress. In Switzerland, she was also involved in the Beyond Foundation, a charitable foundation set up by Regula and Beat Curti in 2007, whose projects aim to "connect people around the world with the help of music".
