Ike Turner Jr., the son of Ike and Tina Turner who received 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 stated the musician had been battling coronary heart points for years and had a stroke final month.
“It’s with nice unhappiness that we announce the passing of my cousin, Ike Turner, Jr.,” Bullock stated in a press release to the New York Submit. ‘”Junior’ was greater than a cousin to me, however moderately a brother, as we grew up in the identical famed family collectively.”
“Because the son of Tina and Ike Turner, from an early age, his skills have been evident as there wasn’t an instrument he didn’t wish to play,” the assertion continued. “Ultimately, Junior would find yourself serving to to run Bolic Sound Studios, the recording studios based 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] home and out of faculty and I traveled [with them],” Turner stated in a 2017 interview on “The Bobby Eaton Present.” “That wasn’t no straightforward 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, till my mom began making me break my drums down day-after-day,” he stated. “The piano was all the time there within the household room, so I began taking part in piano. I play guitar and bass. The whole lot besides horn as a result of 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 have been typically overshadowed by the previous’s abuse.
Born in 1958 to Ike Turner Sr. and Lorraine Taylor, Ike Jr. and his brother Michael have been adopted by the “What’s Love Obtained 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 two,” Ike Jr. advised the Mail on Sunday in 2018. “She’s the one mom I’ve ever recognized.”
Through the years Turner had commented a lot of occasions on his estrangement from his mom since his dad and mom’ divorce. In 2018 he stated he had not spoken to her in practically 20 years.
Turner was preceded in dying by each of his dad and mom 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.
