_:b138266697 . _:b138266697 "American record producers" . _:b138266697 "People from Clarksdale, Mississippi" . _:b138266697 "American rhythm and blues singer-songwriters" . _:b138266697 "People from East St. Louis, Illinois" . _:b138266697 "Sue Records artists" . _:b138266697 . _:b138266697 "Blues Hall of Fame inductees" . _:b138266697 "I. Turner" . _:b138266697 "Chess Records artists" . _:b138266697 "Ike Turner" . _:b138266697 "Singers from California" . _:b138266697 "American rock guitarists" . _:b138266697 "Ike & Tina Turner members" . _:b138266697 "b66fa5c1-ebab-402a-865d-26acaf8de3d5" . _:b138266697 . _:b138266697 . _:b138266697 "Musicians from Tennessee" . _:b138266697 "Singers from Illinois" . _:b138266697 "2007 deaths" . _:b138266697 "American rock pianists" . _:b138266697 "1931-11-05"^^ . _:b138266697 "African-American guitarists" . _:b138266697 "Lead guitarists" . _:b138266697 "Ike Turner, Sr." . _:b138266697 "American bandleaders" . _:b138266697 "I.Turner" . _:b138266697 "Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees" . _:b138266697 "St. Louis blues musicians" . _:b138266697 "Soul-blues musicians" . _:b138266697 "American singer-songwriters" . _:b138266697 "Blues musicians from Mississippi" . _:b138266697 "Male" . _:b138266697 "American blues singers" . _:b138266697 . _:b138266697 "American basses" . _:b138266697 "African-American rock musicians" . _:b138266697 "People from San Marcos, California" . _:b138266697 "Ike" . _:b138266697 "I Turner" . _:b138266697 "American baritones" . _:b138266697 "Sun Records artists" . _:b138266697 "Blues musicians from Illinois" . _:b138266697 "American blues pianists" . _:b138266697 "Izear Luster Turner Jr. or Ike Wister Turner" . _:b138266697 "American soul musicians" . _:b138266697 "Tina Turner" . _:b138266697 "Turner" . _:b138266697 "Memphis blues musicians" . _:b138266697 "American funk musicians" . _:b138266697 "American blues guitarists" . _:b138266697 "American rhythm and blues guitarists" . _:b138266697 "American rock songwriters" . _:b138266697 "American rock singers" . _:b138266697 "Grammy Award winners" . _:b138266697 "Ike Turner (born November 5, 1931, Clarksdale, Mississippi, USA - died December 12, 2007, San Diego, California, USA) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In the 1950's, he formed his first group as a teenager in high school, called Ike Turner's Kings Of Rhythm. In 1956, he hired two sisters named Anna Mae Bullock and Aillene Bullock. He renamed Anna Mae Bullock as Tina Turner, married her and they had their first hit in 1960 with %22A Fool In Love%22. Ike has frequently been referred to as a %22great innovator%22 of rock and roll and has left a lasting mark in music history." . _:b138266697 "Cocaine-related deaths in California" . _:b138266697 "Izear Luster %22Ike%22 Turner, Jr. (November 5, 1931 \u2013 December 12, 2007) was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. An early pioneer of fifties rock and roll, he is most popularly known for his work in the 1960s and 1970s with his then-wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue.Turner began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm, as a teenager. He employed the group as his backing band for the rest of his life. His first recording, %22Rocket 88%22, credited to %22Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats%22, in 1951 is considered a contender for %22first rock and roll song%22. Relocating to St. Louis, Missouri, in 1954, he built the Kings into one of the most renowned acts on the local club circuit. There he met singer Anna Mae Bullock, whom he renamed Tina Turner, forming The Ike & Tina Turner Revue, which over the course of the sixties became a soul/rock crossover success.Turner recorded for many of the key R&B record labels of the 1950s and 1960s, including Chess, Modern, Trumpet, Flair and Sue. With the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, he graduated to larger labels Blue Thumb and United Artists. Throughout his career Turner won two Grammy Awards and was nominated for three others. With his former wife, Turner was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1991 and in 2001 was inducted into the St. Louis Walk of Fame.Allegations by Tina Turner of abuse by Ike, published in her autobiography I, Tina and included in the film adaptation of the book, coupled with his cocaine addiction, damaged Ike Turner's career in the 1980s and 1990s. Addicted to cocaine and crack for at least 15 years, Turner was convicted of drug offenses, serving seventeen months in prison between July 1989 and 1991. He spent the rest of the 1990s free of his addiction but relapsed in 2004. Near the end of his life, he returned to live performance as a front man and, returning to his blues roots, produced two albums that were critically well received and award-winning. Turner has frequently been referred to as a 'great innovator' of Rock and Roll by contemporaries such as Little Richard and Johnny Otis. Phil Alexander (then editor-in-chief of Mojo magazine) described Turner as 'the cornerstone of modernday rock 'n' roll'." . _:b138266697 "238213" . _:b138266697 "Rhythm and blues pianists" . _:b138266697 . _:b138266697 "Flair Records artists" . _:b138266697 "People from Memphis, Tennessee" . _:b138266697 "RPM Records (United States) artists" . _:b138266697 "1931 births" .