After a seven-year hiatus, Tina Turner will grace the stage again starting with a Kansas City show on Oct. 1, PEOPLE reports.

Tina Turner tours again

"I was at the Armani show in Milan just chatting with Sophia Loren. I told her I was taking a break. She said for how long … I said oh, seven years. She said, 'Break over. People want to see you. Get back to work,' " Turner says on the May 8 episode of The Oprah Winfrey Show.

: "After [performing at] the Grammys when I got home to Zurich, people would come up to me in the restaurant, in the ladies room, on the street … everywhere. I started getting lots of little slips of paper and napkins with notes from fans. Some of them were so touching about my life, or a song and how it helped them. Each time I kept the note ... and suddenly there was a pile. I called my manager and said, 'It's time! '"

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