Who is the husband of Tina Turner? How many years were they married? Learn all there is to know.

Tina Turner found true love with her husband Erwin Bach. The “Queen of Rock and Roll” met the former music executive a decade after she fled from her abusive first husband and music partner Ike Turner, with whom she shares four kids. (Turner and Ike’s oldest son, Craig, died by suicide in 2018, and their youngest, Ronnie, died of complications from colon cancer in December 2022.)

Turner’s tour stylist told PEOPLE that Bach’s love “sustained” the singer after she lost the “loves of her life.” Turner and Bach dated for 27 years and were married for 10 years until her death on May 24, 2023, from a long illness. Over the course of their decades-long relationship, the couple shared plenty of sweet moments and milestones together. Turner also credited Bach for teaching her how “to love without giving up who I am.”

“We grant each other freedom and space to be individuals at the same time we are a couple,” the singer wrote in her book, Happiness Becomes You: A Guide to Changing Your Life for Good. “Erwin, who is a force of nature in his own right, has never been the least bit intimidated by my career, my talents, or my fame. He shows me that true love doesn’t require the dimming of my light so that he can shine. On the contrary, we are the light of each other’s lives, and we want to shine as bright as we can, together.”

So who was Edwin Bach?

Bach was an executive with European record label EMI.

Bach was an executive with the European record label EMI, which worked with acts like Queen, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd and Radiohead. Turner worked with EMI to distribute her music overseas.

Turner and Bach met in 1985 at the airport in Düsseldorf, Germany. Bach was sent by EMI to greet the singer as she arrived. In the 2021 HBO documentary Tina, the couple said they had an instant connection from the moment they locked eyes.

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