It’s simply the best news... Tina could return to the stage
SINGING legend Tina Turner has revealed she could be tempted back on stage again.
The What’s Love Got To Do With It singer, 79, said she will not be held back by age, insisting: “I refuse to give in.” Tina’s last concert came in 2009, and she spent time in a wheelchair last year after suffering a fall.
But the ever-popular star admits she has not lost the hunger to perform, and could burst on to the stage again one day soon.
She said: “I still love my music and some days I feel like performing again.
“I’ll be around for a while yet and who knows what might happen. “We’ll see, but in the meantime keep the music in your life. Music is simply the best.”
Tina, whose mega-hits include Proud Mary, River Deep Mountain High and The Best, said the secret to enjoying life is your state of mind, revealing she has lost none of her passion for music.
She said: “I am not so energetic now.
“I had a fall a while ago and spent a little time on crutches and even in a wheelchair for a short time but that was then, this is now.
“I refuse to give in.
Iwon’t give in to age and I encourage those around me not to give in either.
“State of mind is so important, laughter is important, love is important. What’s love got to do with it? Everything!
“Love your life, love your family and don’t forget to include yourself a little.”
“If you have music, have life. “Maybe you can’t jump on to the table-top any more but you you can still feel the music pulsing through you and you can love it just as much.”
Tina has sold 200 million records globally, making her one of the world’s most successful recording artists of all time.
In recent years she has led a reclusive life.
However, last year she visited London’s West End to watch Tina, a musical based on her life story, starring Adrienne Warren in the title role. The superstar credits the British public for helping to make her an icon within the music world.
She said: “I never thought much of myself, I used to see people like Barbra Streisand and think, ‘Wow! What a singer, what a performer.’
“It took a long time before I started to believe people when they said how much they liked this song or that performance.
“I guess I just used to think that they were either being polite or wanted something.
“I was handed all kinds of awards, gold discs and all sorts of prizes and gifts and honours but I still couldn’t see it.
Embrace
“Tickets for my concerts were selling out in a day.
“After a while I realised that something must be working and maybe my songs were better than I thought.
“I think Britain played great part in that.
“When my Private Dancer album was released and What’s Love Got To Do With It was lifted and went out as a single, there was an immediate embrace in Britain and the audiences at my shows were just fantastic.
“That made the rest of Europe sit up and take notice and then, later, my homeland decided to take another look at me and here we are today.”
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