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TIL After 27 years together Tina Turner married Erwin Bach in Switzerland in 2013. Shortly afterwards she signed the paperwork to give up her American citizenship and became a permanent citizen of Switzerland. In 2017 Erwin Bach donated a kidney to her, saving her life.

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