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Izear Luster "Ike" Turner Jr. (November 5, 1931 – December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, record producer, and talent scout.An early pioneer of 1950s rock and roll, he is best known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his wife Tina Turner as the leader of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.
In 1993, the biopic What’s Love Got To Do With It was released which dramatized Turner's volatile relationship with his ex-wife and former singing partner Tina Turner. [8] In 2019, she told Palm Spring Life that the movie "assassinated Ike's career. But more than that, it broke his heart.
After Ike Turner's ex-wife Tina Turner revealed that his violent behavior and infidelity drove her to attempt suicide in her 1986 autobiography, I,Tina: My Life Story (dramatized in the 1993 film What's Love Got to Do with It), he became a social pariah whose personal life overshadowed his musical contributions.
Tina Turner James Shaw/Shutterstock Forever in her heart. Tina Turner’s second son, Ronnie Turner, has died. He was 62. Celebrity Deaths in 2022: Stars We've Lost Read article “Ronnie, you ...
Tina Turner, who was born Anna Mae Bullock, and her life story have been detailed in two memoirs (“I, Tina,” and “Tina Turner: My Love Story”), the 1993 Oscar-nominated film “What’s ...
Turner married Ike in 1962, and they divorced in 1976. Throughout much of the 1960s and '70s, they performed together as the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. ... "When Ike saw me chanting," Turner said of ...
Jeanette Bazzell Turner was married to Ike Turner from 1995 to 2000. She continues to perform and also works as a real estate broker. [39] Audrey Madison Turner is Ike Turner's last wife. She appeared as a contestant on The X Factor in 2011. [40]
The abusive relationship between Ike and Tina Turner is well-chronicled in both her 1986 memoir, I, Tina, and her 2018 memoir, My Love Story: A Memoir.