Ike Turner Jr family: Who are his wife and kids?

Ike Turner was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.

Ike was born on November 5, 1931, in Clarksdale, Mississippi, to Baptist minister Izear Luster Turner and seamstress Beatrice Cushenberry. He had Creole parents.

Their other kid, Lee Ethel Knight, was “some ten years” older than Turner, who was the younger of their two children.

Turner learned that Ike Wister Turner was listed as his name when he applied for his first passport in the 1960s. He was unable to confirm the genesis of his name at that point because both of his parents had passed away.

Turner claimed to have seen a white man beat his father and leave him for dead. Later, he was informed that it was a revenge attack against the woman his father had been having an affair with.

When Turner was around five years old, his father passed away as a result of his wounds after living in a tent in the family’s yard for two or three years as an invalid.

His mother remarried Philip Reese, an artist who Turner characterized as a violent drunk. Turner knocked Reese out with a piece of lumber one day after Reese spanked him, then fled to Memphis for a few days before coming back to his house.

Turner was motivated to take up piano after seeing Pinetop Perkins perform at the home of his friend Ernest Lane. Turner convinced his mother to pay for his piano lessons, but he struggled with the conventional playing manner. Instead, he used the cash to go to a pool hall and study Perkins’ boogie-woogie. Turner stayed at the Riverside Hotel in Clarksdale at some point in the 1940s.

Touring musicians including Sonny Boy Williamson II and Duke Ellington played at The Riverside. Turner was friends with a lot of these musicians, and at age 13, he played piano for Sonny Boy Williamson II.

In the 1980s and 1990s, Tina Turner’s accounts of domestic violence (published in her 1986 autobiography I, Tina and the 1993 film adaption What’s Love Got to Do with It) as well as Turner’s cocaine addiction and legal issues had an effect on his career.

Turner, who had been dependent on cocaine for at least 15 years, was found guilty of narcotics charges and sentenced to 18 months in prison.

He relapsed in 2004 after being released in 1991, and he passed away in 2007 from a heroin overdose. Turner revitalized his career as a frontman in his final ten years by going back to his blues roots. Here and Now and Risin’ with the Blues, two of his award-winning albums, were released.

Who are Ike Turner Jr wife and kids?

Turner asserted having fourteen marriages. He frequently married another woman before divorcing his first spouse. After they first met in 1957, Tina Turner was one of the many women he wed.

Additionally, the late star has said on numerous occasions that he and Tina never had a legal marriage. Additionally, he stated that Tina’s real name is Martha Nell Bullock and not Anna Mae Bullock on The Howard Stern Show in 1993 and Fresh Air in 1996. On numerous contracts, Tina used her real name, Martha Nell Turner.

Turner had six children. He had two sons, Ike Turner Jr. (b. 1958) and Michael Turner (b. 1960), with Lorraine Taylor. He had a son Ronald “Ronnie” Turner (1960–2022) with Tina Turner. Tina’s son Craig Turner (1958–2018) with Raymond Hill was adopted by Turner and therefore carried his surname. Craig died in an apparent suicide in 2018.

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