France Soir, November 2nd,  1999
 

  " I want to make less " 
 
    In 1993, she already wanted to give up. Tina Turner, queen of the soul music, had announced that she arranged her microphone in the box and hung up her miniskirts spangled in her cupboard for an anticipated retirement, but well deserved . Finally, she had come back on her decision. This time, it seems that the lioness of Brownsville, that releases today her new album Twenty Four Seven decided to reduce her activity. In visit a few days ago in Paris to promote her last album, «La Turner» that will be 61 years old on November 26th, announced that the tour that she will undertake June 30, 2OOO in Zurich, city where she lives since 5 years, will be her last big tour. " I will continue to give concerts here and there then but I finished some with tours in the big stadiums with trailers and all the tremor. I want to change my rhythm of life and my habits of work henceforth, to make less. I want to take care home, of me, to read, calm being." Info, intox?
 
    It is necessary to say that the life of Anna Mae Bullock, her true name, was not always a part of pleasure. Made of tops and bottom, glory and debts, the life of Tina Turner looks like a real novel.
 
    Born in a modest familly, leaved by her mother, discover at 17 years old by Ike Turner, Tina discovers the rock and the conjugal violence at the same time. lke makes of Tina a star, learns him to sing like a man and to caress her microphone - before marrying her. A real fairy tale that turns quickly to the nightmare: the mentor who abuses coke and takes shadiness of the success of his thing begins to put him of thrashings and to deceive it.
 
Serenity:
 
    " When the press began to speak of my life with Ike, I was very embarassed because everybody presented me like a victim. It was completely false. I simply wanted to help him because I had promised myself to help him until the tip ".
 
    Today, the oldest female american pop star finally says himself happy. The reason? She found the serenity close to the bouddha and the love in the arm of a sixteen years old younger man, Erwin Bach, a director of record company. Her age, Tina Turner assumes it completely.
" It is brilliant to be 60 years old, it is brilliant to last, I don't feel at all out of date ".
 
    For proof, this new album with techno sounds - very up to date with the rock grannys - as the single When The Heartache Is Over. As Cher, Tina Turner asked Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor, two young producers who had put back notably in saddle the ex-accomplice of Sonny with Believe. " What is funny, it is to think that these young musicians are younger than my children ".
 
    Multimillionaire in dollars, the singer who sold more 40 millions of albums in addition of 40 years of career lives since 10 years in Europe, shared between her house in Switzerland and her villa in the south of France. Henceforth, at 61 years old, Tina Turner can turn around proudly nearly on a exemplary career . Because, to the number of mistakes that she concedes to have made, she confesses "mistakes of make up, some mistakes of clohes, and some clips ". We won't disagree.
 
    Twenty Four Seven released by EMI.