Ike Turner Jr., the son of music legends Ike and Tina Turner, has died. He was 67.
Ike Jr. passed away at a hospital in Los Angeles on Oct. 4, one day after his 67th birthday.
Tina Turner’s niece Jacqueline Bullock confirmed his death on Sunday to the New York Post and TMZ.
“It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my cousin, Ike Turner, Jr.,” Bullock said in a statement. “Junior was more than a cousin to me, but rather a brother, as we grew up in the same famed household together.”
She told TMZ that Ike Jr. died from kidney failure. He had suffered from multiple health problems in recent years, including heart trouble, and he had a stroke in September.
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Ike and Tina were parents to four boys.
Ike Jr. was born in 1958 to Ike Sr. and Lorraine Taylor. Tina adopted him and his brother Michael and raised them as her own.
The couple had son Ronnie Turner together in 1960.
Tina was also mom to son Raymond Craig Turner, whose biological father was Raymond Hill, a saxophone player in Ike Turner’s band. Ike adopted Craig when he married Tina in 1962.
Ike Jr. carved out a successful music career. He worked as Tina’s sound engineer and also produced his father’s 2006 album, “Risin’ With the Blues.” The album earned the father and son the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album, according to Grammy.com.
“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,” Bullock recalled. “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.”
Ike Jr. would eventually become estranged from his mom.
“Tina raised me from the age of two. She’s the only mother I’ve ever known,” Ike Jr. told The Daily Mail in April 2018. “But I haven’t talked to my mother since God knows when – probably around 2000. I don’t think any of my brothers have talked to her in a long time either.”
Ike Jr. was preceded in death by his brother Craig, who died by suicide in July 2018 at age 69.
His brother Ronnie Turner died of colon cancer in 2022, at age 62.
Tina died in May 2023 at age 83 of natural causes after a string of health problems.
Ike Sr. died from a drug overdose in 2007. He was 76.
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