Ike Turner Jr., Tina Turners son, dead at 67…
Ike Turner Jr., the son of Tina Turner and Ike Turner Sr., has died at age 67, The Post can affirm.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my cousin, Ike Turner, Jr.,” Tina’s niece, Jacquline Bullock, said in a assertion to The Post. ‘”Junior’ was more than a cousin to me, but reasonably a brother, as we grew up in the same famed family together.”
Ike Turner Sr. with his son Ike Turner Jr. at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Getty Images
“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. While he favored the drums early on, my aunt and his mother, Tina Turner, insisted that he break down his drum kit after each practice. This led him to favor the keys. Eventually, Junior would end up helping to run Bolic Sound Studios, the recording studios founded by his father, Ike Turner,” the assertion continued.
“While he faced the same challenges that many of us have, he would become a sought after sound engineer, musician, and Grammy winner for Best Traditional Blues Album in 2007 for his father’s ‘Risin’ With The Blues,’” Bullock added.
Ike Turner and Tina Turner. Redferns
At the end of the assertion, Bullock said, “We, as a family, appreciate the outpouring of condolences and request privacy at this time.”
Bullock didn’t reveal a trigger of death, though GWN reported Ike Jr. died of kidney failure.
Ike Turner Jr., his sister Mia Turner and his fiance Mary Ellis at Ike Turner’s memorial service in 2007. Corbis via Getty Images
Ike Jr. was born in 1958 to Ike Sr. and his ex, Lorraine Taylor. Tina, who was married to Ike Sr. from 1962 to 1978, adopted Ike Jr. when he he was younger.
“Tina raised me from the age of 2. She’s the only mother I’ve ever known,” Ike Jr. told the Daily Mail in 2018, including that he was “raised by housekeepers because my mother and father were gone 11 months out of a year.”
Ike Turner and Tina Turner pose for a portrait with their youngsters in 1972. Michael Ochs Archives
Ike Jr. adopted in his dad and mom’ footsteps as a musician after his dad took him out of faculty at 13 to tour with him.
“I ended up running his recording studio, plus going on the road with them,” Ike Jr recalled to Daily Mail. “They made a lot of money on tour and my father used to make me count it until my hands were grey.”
Tina and Ike Turner in 1963. Michael Ochs Archives
Ike Jr. later produced his father’s 2006 album “Risin’ With The Blues” which gained them the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album.
Ike Jr. had an up-and-down relationship with both of his dad and mom. In 2018, he told Daily Mail he hadn’t spoken to Tina in over a decade.
“I haven’t talked to my mother since God knows when — probably around 2000,” he shared. “My mother is living her life — she has a new husband and she’s in Europe. She doesn’t want to have anything to do with the past.”
Tina Turner during an interview on MTV in 1984. Getty Images
Tina Turner performs at the Poplar Creek Music Theater in Illinois in 1987. Getty Images
Tina and Ike Turner performing in 1976. Michael Ochs Archives
Ike Jr. claimed in that same interview that his father — who died of a cocaine overdose in 2007 — “beat me in the head with a nickel-plated .45 pistol” for briefly working as Tina’s sound engineer when the couple divorced in 1978.
In May 2023, Ike Jr. was arrested in Texas and charged with crack cocaine possession and tampering with evidence just weeks before Tina’s death.
The Alvin, Texas, police division told People pulled Ike Jr. over at a visitors gentle for an tools violation, claiming his headlight or taillight was out. Officers then seen Ike Jr. making an attempt to eat narcotics that have been in his possession, and they subsequently confiscated 1.7 grams of crack cocaine and .7 grams of methamphetamine.
Ike Turner Jr. and his sister Mia Turner at their dad Ike Turner’s 2007 memorial service. Corbis via Getty Images
Ike Jr. was in the end sentenced to jail 18 days before Tina died at age 83.
Ike Jr. had a number of siblings, including brothers Raymond Craig Turner, Michael Turner and Ronald “Ronnie” Turner, and sister Mia Turner.
Ronnie died of issues from colon cancer at age 62 in Dec. 2022, less than six months before Tina’s passing.
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