R & B Legend, Ike Turner, Dies at 76

Ike Turner won a Grammy for best traditional blues album with Risin’ With the Blues.

Ike Turner, the rhythm and blues musician, songwriter, bandleader, producer, talent scout and former husband of Tina Turner, died Wednesday at his home in San Marcos, California, at the age of 76. His death was announced by Jeanette Bazzell Turner, who married Turner in 1995. She gave no cause of death, but said he had had emphysema.

Turner was best known for discovering Anna Mae Bullock, a teenage singer from Nutbush, Tennessee, whom he renamed Tina Turner. The Ike and Tina Turner Revue had a string of hits in the 1960s before the Turners broke up in 1975. Tina Turner described the relationship as abusive in her autobiography, “I, Tina,” which was adapted for the 1993 film “What’s Love Got to Do With It?” and made Turner’s name synonymous with domestic abuse.

Ike and Tina Turner were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991.

Tina is aware that Ike passed away earlier today,” her representative told celebrity website TMZ. “She has not had any contact with him in 35 years. No further comment will be made.”

Source – ustoday.com

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