When Tina Turner turned 80, in November 2019, she made a video for her fans reflecting on the milestone. “Yes, I’m 80. How did I think I would be at 80?” she wondered. “Well, I look great,” she said with a laugh — and she did. “I feel good. I’ve gone through some very serious sicknesses that I am overcoming. So it’s like having a second chance at life.”
But, sadly, nearly four years later, on May 24, Tina passed away after a “long illness,” her publicist, Bernard Doherty, said, at her home near Zurich in Switzerland. The singer, who crawled out of the depths of abuse and despair to reinvent herself in the 1980s, underwent a kidney transplant — with her husband, Erwin Bach, as her donor — in…