Singer Tina Turner’s death this Wednesday, May 24 in Zurich, Switzerland surprised the whole world. Since then, the tributes, reviews, obituaries and messages of regret have not stopped, both in the media and on social networks. And it almost went unnoticed that the artist, born in the United States, already he did not have the nationality of that country.
Her death, at the age of 83, was attributed to natural causes, according to European newspapers, even though Tina Turner was known to have suffered from many health problems in recent years.
In 2013, the singer suffered a stroke, also known as ACV, just three weeks after marrying Erwin Bach, her now husband.
After that fact, the recovery was long and, even their closest friends say so he had to relearn to walk. By now Tina was already far from music and she had settled in Switzerland, a country from which she adopted her nationality, also abandoning the American one.
Three years after the stroke, Turner was diagnosed with a stroke bowel cancer, an illness that once again left her battered. And as if that weren’t enough, in 2017, as she herself revealed in her autobiography Tina Turner: My Love Storyshe had to receive a kidney transplant from her husband.
Nothing that connected it to the United States
As for what it has to do with US citizenship, Tina Turner lost it in 2013, after being resident in Switzerland for almost 20 years together with her husband. She acquired that country’s naturalization just weeks after her 73rd birthday and knowingly claimed that she no longer had anything to tie her to the United States.
Of course, it was not a question of a renunciation in itself, but the process took place in a particular way, which was attended by the embassy of the North American country located in Bern, the capital of the Swiss territory.
The why has to do with what she decided to focus one hundred percent on her personal life, forgetting its roots in the United States. It has clearly been a life choice, which has included withdrawal from music and also from the practice of Buddhism, which has helped her in all aspects of her life, both with her physical problems and with the death of her parents. biological children.
Craig Turner committed suicide in 2018 and Ronald Turner in 2022.
2013, the year of the big change
The year 2013 was decisive for Tina Turner, since she officially became a Swiss citizen, therefore on 10 April 2013 he took the oath of citizenshipgetting it satisfactorily.
Turner lived for almost 20 years in the European country and one more reason for doing so is that his romantic partner was from there, so at 73 he consciously decided that his new home was Switzerland and that he no longer had anything related to the United States.
In July of that 2013, she married German music producer Erwin Bach, after supporting herself 27 years of courtship with him. And on October 24 of the same year, he attended the aforementioned embassy to sign his Declaration of Voluntary Renunciation of United States Citizenship under Section 349(a)(1) of the Immigration and Naturalization Act.
However, Turner did not resign as such, but “took Swiss citizenship with the intention of losing his American citizenship,” according to The Washington Post.
That means he avoided the process of formally resigning, where fees and other penalties must be paid to lose his citizenship that way. According to section 349 of the aforementioned law, an American loses his citizenship if he acquires that of another country after the age of 18.
Tina had no qualms about losing this status, he assured, because he no longer had strong ties to the United States, apart from his family. Furthermore, she stated that she had no intention of returning to that country in the future, as he had been in Switzerland all his life.
Turner moved to Switzerland in 1995 when Bach was transferred for work, according to the magazine. Forbes. He lived in the Zurich suburb of Kusnacht, where he died. She was always happy in that country, she herself confirmed it on several occasions. In her view, “there was no better place to live.”
Source: Clarin
