Wednesday 27 October 1999, 18h56,
 
Tina Turner announces his/her/its " last tour big format "
BET, 27 oct (AFP) - Tina Turner announced Wednesday in Paris that the tour that she will undertake June 30, 2000 in Zurich (Switzerland), the city where her elected domicile since 5 years, will be " his/her/its last on the fashion big format ".
 
" I will continue to give concerts here and there then, but I finished some with tours in the big stadiums, with semi tow and all the tremor ", specified the singer, who will be 61 years old November 26. " I want to change my rhythm and my habits of work henceforth, to make less of them, I want to have of the time to take care home " of me, to read, calm being.
 
Tina Turner, Anna Mae Bullock of his/her/its true name, been born to Brownsville (Tennessee), was passage in Paris in order to present before the European press his/her/its new album, " Twenty Oven Seven ", that will leave November 2 at EMI.
 
The European shutter of the tour will make stop in a half dozen of country (Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden, Britain, Ireland). It will propose during this " tour of the millennium " - " Millennium Tower " - an index " dedicated to sources of the rhythm and blues, ornamented of some novelties ".
 
On his/her/its new disk, she/it collaborated notably with Brian Rawling and Mark Taylor, two young producers who put back notably in Dear saddle with his/her/its recent Believe " tube ". " what is funny that is to think that these musicians are younger than my own children ", smiled the singer who declares " very happy " in about sixty.

40 millions of sold albums
 
" It is brilliant to have 60 years, it is brilliant to last, I don't feel at all out of date ", affirmed the one, that, according to his/her/its house of disks, sold 40 millions of albums since his/her/its return to the first plan in 1984 with the album " Private Dancer ".
 
" I don't have any problem with my voice, I don't have some besides ever had to no moment of my career ", affirmed Tina Turner who also pretends to follow no regime to maintain itself/themselves in shape again. " Today, the fashion is to the jogging, to the gym, to the muscu, for my part, the only sport that I ever made that is the stage, to work, to travel ", it has says. " We have a luck extraordinary to be woman today, compared to our mothers and big mothers, one has the time for us, it is necessary to benefit " some.
 
Residing in Europe since about ten years, the singer arranges two residences there in Switzerland, (" in Zurich, a marvelous place very close to the lake ") and in the south of France.
 
Interrogated on the recent elections in Switzerland that saw the rise of nationalism, Tina Turner declares that she didn't note the rise of the extremism in this country. " I would not live in such a country if I discerned the least threat of racism " there, affirmed the one that otherwise, specified that one of the worst memories " of his/her/its career was difficulties that there was for a black artist to spend to the radio in years 60.
 
Tina Turner declares otherwise faithful to the musical loves of his/her/its youth: " the drunk singers of the 60's, as Otis redding or Marvin Gayes don't have, to my eyes, been passed ever, I keep a deep attachment to the musics of this time ", she/it has finished. To the number of mistakes that she/it concedes to have made in 40 years of career, she/it finally " confesses mistakes of makeup, some mistakes of fringues and some clips ".