Biography
Friends and Family
FALINA RASOOL
[Friend]
(CARE TAKER/ NURSE FOUND HIM DIED)
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LYRICA GARETTE
[Associate]
(THE LAST IKETTE TO PERFORM WITH HIM)
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Holly Maxwell
[Associate]
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RONNIE WOOD
[Associate]
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LITTLE RICHARD
[Associate]
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Tiffany Turner-Dukes
(GRANDDAUGHTER, SON MICHAELS` DAUGHTER)
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CRAIGE TURNER
(STEP SON, TINA`S SON WITH IKE SAX PLAYER)
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TWANNA TURNER
(DAUGHTER WITH TINAS BEST FRIEND)
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MIA TURNER
(DAUGHTER WITH IKETTE ANNE THOMAS)
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IKE TURNER JR.
(SON WITH LORRAINE)
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MICHAEL TURNER
(SON WITH LORRAINE)
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RONNIE TURNER
(SON WITH TINA)
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Beatrice Cushenberry
[Mother]
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Izear Luster Turner
[Father]
Trivia and Quotes
Quotes
 One of two things happen when you hit a woman. Either she heads for the door or she`s all yours."
Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It`s just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he`ll bring me through this.
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I never did drink, but I went over on the other end, with cocaine. But anyway, God helped me through it, so today, I`m healthy and fine.
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I`m really shopping for a record deal, and I haven`t had a chance to go around to the record companies yet. So far I just pressed up a few of them.
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I`m very fast on teaching guys. Like, when I came over here, I only had two rehearsals with the band. I wondered when I first got here... but it sure came up great.
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I wanna record these girls individually. And then, I wanna cut a blues album on me. But all of it, original stuff, you know. When I listen to the blues today, it`s like they all sounds similar. I wanna do something different, to try to add to the blues flavor.
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I still play Strat, I don`t know nothing else. Strats and Telecasters.
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I`m just beginning to develop callouses on my fingers, because I haven`t played a lot.
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I can put a hip-hop beat to reggae. That is, I can have real reggae in the drums and in the rhythm, and on top of it I can put The Rolling Stones` feeling, anyone`s feeling on top. Nobody has ever done this before, man.
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I always considered myself being an organizer. I`m very good at teaching singers, I`m very good at staging a show, to entertain people. But I never included myself. I never applied this to me as an artist.
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In those days, man, in the `50s, black people in the South... We didn`t recognize contracts that much. And we didn`t recognize marriages that much, either.
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Keith Richards uses a Telecaster, but he takes the sixth string off and tunes it to G. And that`s what The Rolling Stones use all the time.
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The basic tracks I originally cut on a computer at my house, and then I over-dubbed it live. But I got the feeling I wanted here on the computer.
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Spector is a good guy, but he`s a nut. Ha, ha, ha! You know, I love him, but he`s unpredictable. He`s OK as long as he don`t drink.
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I think you have to advance with the times, you know. With hip-hop and rap and house music, they make loops and do stuff with loops.
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I didn`t know anything about publishing companies. I didn`t know anything about writers royalties, and they kept me green, you know.
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I miss riding those fast trains in Japan... `cause I`d never seen a train that fast in my life.
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Most times, people have some acts that they really like. I mean, I don`t have any in particular that I admire. I admire them all, you know.
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I used to write songs so fast like this, like snapping my fingers. Some of them didn`t even have a title, for I just did the song.
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I`m not gonna try to defend, or undo what`s been done. All I could say about whatever`s been done, it`s been done, and it`s water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
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I was familiar with Stevie Ray Vaughan because I listened to him. He played a lot of copies off of different guys` styles and stuff.
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They have all different names for music. I think the music I`m going to change the style with is going to be really, really big-years and years after I`m gone.
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Either accept people for what they are, or don`t. So, in other words, man, if people don`t know me, I think they do themself an injustice. Because, as a whole, I think I`m a good person.
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I believe I was ahead of my time.
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I`m really thankful to God, man. Like now, I`m really making a real comeback with my group. With or without a record, with or without a movie. And behind all the negative press behind this movie.
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Little Richard did the intro to my book.
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They`ll probably start working on my movie sometime... They are doing a complete movie of my life story. It will not be based on any negativity. It will be more about my life, from a kid, how I came up and why I came through.
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In China, when you get to the airport everyone be talking in American slang.
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We`re having time to give the younger generation today inspiration. Regardless of the obstacles that you have to overcome, how you can make it?
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I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself.
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They would come down in Mississippi, they hired me as a talent scout. And I would go all over Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and find out different artists for them.
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They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it`s bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.
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When you get my age, and like James Brown... You know, you do a little bit and let them do it. `cause they have the wind, the air to keep it going.
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Trivia
THE GAP BAND RECORDED AT IKES BOLIC SOUNDS STUDIO
FRANK ZAPPA RECORDED HIS FIRST ALBUM AT IKES BOLIC SOUNDS STUDIO
Before his death, a collaboration between Turner and the rock band, The Black Keys, by Gorillaz` producer Danger Mouse was expected in 2008.
Ike won his first solo Grammy in the Best Traditional Blues Album category for the album, Risin` With the Blues which was Mixed at Future Sound Studios by Rene Van Verseveld.
Many sources state Turner`s real name to be "Izear Luster Turner, Jr." however, in his autobiography Takin` Back My Name, it is stated as "Ike Wister Turner." In the book, Turner explains about this confusion.
His first recording, "Rocket 88" by "Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats," in 1951, is considered by some to be the "first rock and roll song" ever.
Turner was still in prison pleading parole when he and Tina were inducted to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1991, which Phil Spector accepted on their behalf (Tina was working on an album at the time).
Ike converted to Judaism in 1994
During his interview with NPR`s Terry Gross on Fresh Air, Ike claimed that he and Tina Turner were never married, and that she took his name in order to discourage a former lover from returning to her.[6]. On October 17, 2007, in a telephone interview conducted by radio personality Howard Stern, Ike reiterated his claim that he and Tina Turner were never actually married
has been married 18 times
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