Ike Turner Jr., the son of Ike and Tina Turner who gained a Grammy for conventional blues album in 2007 as a producer on his father’s album “Risin’ With the Blues,” has died. He was 67.
Turner died Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital from kidney failure, member of the family Jacqueline Bullock advised TMZ. She mentioned the musician had been battling coronary heart points for years and had a stroke final month.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my cousin, Ike Turner, Jr.,” Bullock mentioned in an announcement to the New York Put up. ‘”Junior’ was greater than a cousin to me, however fairly a brother, as we grew up in the identical famed family collectively.”
“As the son of Tina and Ike Turner, from an early age, his talents were evident as there wasn’t an instrument he did not want to play,” the assertion continued. “Eventually, Junior would end up helping to run Bolic Sound Studios, the recording studios founded by his father, Ike Turner.”
Ike Turner Jr., and good friend Mary Ellis at a memorial service for his father in 2007.
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A musician, producer and sound engineer, Turner was pulled into the music enterprise by his father when he was 13.
“My father took me out of [the] house and out of school and I traveled [with them],” Turner mentioned in a 2017 interview on “The Bobby Eaton Show.” “That wasn’t no easy work.”
In that very same interview, he additionally shared the function his mom Tina performed within the devices he picked up in his youth.
“My first instrument was drums, until my mother started making me break my drums down every day,” he mentioned. “The piano was always there in the family room, so I started playing piano. I play guitar and bass. Everything except horn because horn used to make me dizzy from blowing air.”
Turner was one in all 4 kids related to Ike Sr. and Tina Turner’s famed union, which ended with the latter submitting for divorce in 1974 (finalized in 1978). The couple carried out collectively from 1960 to 1976 because the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, however their musical achievements had been typically overshadowed by the previous’s abuse.
Born in 1958 to Ike Turner Sr. and Lorraine Taylor, Ike Jr. and his brother Michael had been adopted by the “What’s Love Got to Do With It” singer upon her marriage in 1962 to their father. Their siblings additionally included Ronnie and Craig.
“Tina raised me from the age of 2,” Ike Jr. advised the Mail on Sunday in 2018. “She’s the only mother I’ve ever known.”
Over time Turner had commented quite a few occasions on his estrangement from his mom since his mother and father’ divorce. In 2018 he mentioned he had not spoken to her in practically 20 years.
Turner was preceded in demise by each of his mother and father and two of his siblings. His father died in 2007 of a cocaine overdose and Tina died in 2023 after a protracted sickness. Craig Turner died by suicide in 2018 and Ronnie Turner of issues associated to late-stage most cancers in 2022.
