Musician and producer Ike Turner, Jr., 67, died after a long illness on Oct. 4. The son of Ike and Lorraine Taylor (Tina later adopted him—actually, he was Ike Turner III, as his father was a Jr.), Turner won a Best Traditional Blues Grammy for producing his father’s album Risin’ With The Blues, in 2007 (Ike, Sr., died later that year). Relative Jacqueline Bullock said that “from an early age, his talents were evident as there wasn’t an instrument he did not want to play . . . Eventually, Junior would end up helping to run Bolic Sound Studios, the recording studios founded by his father." Of his traumatic childhood, Ike, Jr., said that he was “raised by housekeepers because my mother and father were gone 11 months out of a year . . . I ended up running his recording studio, plus going on the road with them. They made a lot of money on tour and my father used to make me count it until my hands were grey.”
