Tina Turner to celebrate her wedding in Switzerland

YEREVAN, JULY 16, ARMENPRESS: The 73-year-old retired singer wed 57-year-old record executive Erwin Bachin a discreet civil ceremony on the banks of Lake Zurich in Kusnacht, northernSwitzerland, reports “Armenpress” calling thelocal.

According to Swiss media reports, the pair will celebrate the union attheir Kusnacht manor on Sunday with an intimate Buddhist ceremony attended by120 guests.

Music industry A-listers including David Bowie, Eros Ramazzoti and Sade aredue to attend along with television talk show queen Oprah Winfrey, accordingto Swiss weekly Schweiz am Sonntag, which also reported guests were requestedto wear white.

The bride herself, who traded in her US passport for a Swiss one earlierthis year, will be wearing a gown designed by Italian fashion giant GiorgioArmani, according to the newspaper, which did not reveal its sources.

Swiss media reported that a small stage would be set up for Sunday's party,and that Turner and Bach had sent out letters to their neighbours apologizingin advance for the noise they might cause.

Turner, born Anna Mae Bullock in Tennessee, was the voice of such hits as"Simply the Best" and "We Don't Need Another Hero", over a five-decades longcareer, and moved to Switzerland in 1995 when Bach was transferred to thecountry.

Before her relationship with Bach began in the mid-1980s, Turner wasfamously married to her musical partner Ike Turner for 14 years.

She left him in 1976 after suffering serious domestic abuse, as detailed inher autobiography "I, Tina," and alluded to in her 1984 hit "What's Love GotTo Do With It."

Tina Turner retired from the public eye after a final tour in 2008/2009.