Tina Turner's idyllic final days in Swiss village revealed trends now
Music legend Tina Turner lived out her final days pottering around the picturesque lake-side village in Switzerland that she called home.
The multi-million singer would casually stroll through the streets of Küsnacht shopping for designer clothes and gourmet food.
At other times she would sit on a chair in the local park, staring across the Zurichsee Lake at the snow-covered mountains that mark this Alpine nation.
And despite having a personal butler and a full set of staff, the star would drive herself around the narrow lanes in her Porsche Cayenne.
Tina Turner managed to make the most of her years in the peaceful lake town called Küsnacht, where she had lived for the past 26 years
The musical icon was known to casually stroll the streets of the idyllic village, where she would sometimes drive herself around the narrow lanes in her Porsche Cayenne
The Simply the Best hitmaker stepped back from the public eye nearly 20 years ago, retiring to Chateau Algonquin
Today the 83-year-old entertainment icon is remembered by her neighbors as 'modest', 'friendly' and 'polite'.
Butcher Benny Lang told DailyMail.com: 'Tina Turner would come into town to do the shopping sometimes. She had a butler but she liked to go herself, with her husband Erwin.
'They particularly liked the Moreira Gourmet House. It is the best place in the area to buy smoked salmon and white truffles. That's what they bought there.'
Tina Turner moved to Küsnacht in 1995 when her German husband Erwin Bach got a job running the Swiss offices of EMI Music in nearby Zurich. They married in 2013.
In the same year Tina acquired Swiss citizenship and gave up her US passport.
Turner, who learned to speak German to be eligible for Swiss nationality and picked up the distinct Swiss dialect, took up yoga classes at the Horn public park, a few minutes walk from her sprawling chateau.
A neighbor revealed: 'When she first came to live here she took up yoga. She attended classes held in the park.'
Tina and her husband Erwin were big fans of the Moreira Gourmet House, her go-to for her favorite gourmet foods such as smoked salmon and white truffles, local butcher Benny Lang told DailyMail.com
She had also started taking yoga classes at Horn Park, located just a few minutes walk from her sprawling chateau
The musical icon would sometimes sit on a chair in the local park, staring across the Zurichsee Lake at the snow-covered mountains that mark this Alpine nation
Tina Turner and her husband Erwin Bach shopping in Milan, Italy, April 5, 2008, shortly before her retirement
Another added: 'She liked to go to the park and sit by the water. It is a very peaceful place.
'She would say 'Gruezi', how we say 'hello' in Swiss-German, to people walking their dogs. She was very friendly.'
Turner also frequented the Laredo designer clothes shop.
Shop assistant Arzu Oezoguz said: 'Ms Turner would come into the shop.
'She was very modest. She would come in with her husband Erwin.
'She was not conceited. I would say 'Hello, Ms Turner' and
