Ike Turner Jr., son of Tina and Ike Sr., dead at age 67
Ike Turner Jr., the second oldest child in the brood shared by other Tina and Ike musicians, has died.
He was 67 years old the day before his death.
Turner died on Saturday from kidney failure in a Los Angeles hospital, his cousin Jaqueline Bullock, Tina Turner’s niece, in TMZ. He had serious heart problems for years and suffered a stroke in September, she said.
He was second online behind Craig Raymond Turner, Tina Turner’s child with the saxophonist Raymond Hill. Ike Jr.’s biological mother was Lorraine Taylor, Ike Sr.’s first wife with whom he had two children. Tina Turner adopted Ike Jr. and her brother, Michael, when she married Ike Sr. in 1962, and Ike Sr. adopted Craig. The two also had a son together, Ronnie Turner.
Craig Turner committed suicide in 2019 at the age of 59, while Ronnie Turner died of a late colon cancer complicated by cardiovascular disease in 2022, at 62. The most recent information accessible to the public on Michael Turner came from Ike Jr., who told an interviewer in 2017 that his brother had suffered from “several trapenes” and was confined to a Wathair, according to to People. In 2018, IKE said that Michael was in a convalescent house in southern California and needed continuous medical support, but “managed”.
After Ike Jr.’s parents divorced in 1978, he worked for a short period as a sound engineer from Tina Turner, but Ike Sr. ended this. Ike Jr. also worked with his father, and in 2007 shared a Grammy for the best album of traditional blues for “Risin ‘with the Blues” by Ike Sr., which the son produced. Ike Sr. died the following year of a cocaine overdose.
Tina Turner died in 2023 at the age of 83 after a long illness while Ike Jr. was imprisoned in Texas in coke and accusations of crack.
Bullock said that Ike Jr. looked more like a brother than a cousin, since they had grown up together. Afida Turner, Ronnie’s wife, cried the loss of her “incredible brother-in-law” on Instagram, saying she was happy that they had the chance to speak before her death. “Rest in peace, Ike Jr.,” she wrote.
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