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Ike TurnerRock 'n' Roll King Ike Turner dies at 76
Izear Luster Turner was born in 1931 in Clarksdale, Missisipi, an area steeped in the tradition of Blues music,
and as a boy, learned to play piano, and was a Disk Jockey for a local radio station.
He formed his first band in High School, and was the man behind The Kings of Rythm.
As a guitarist, he played with the likes of Muddy Waters, B.B King,
Howlin' Wolf and Willie Dixon in the 1950's.
His band performed in the popular style of a revue, featuring different vocalists.
One of those singers, a young teenager named Annie May Bullock, joined the revue in 1956,
and by 1958 had changed her name to Tina, joined the band for good and married Turner.
After he and Tina Divorced in 1976, Ike Turner was crippled by a Cocaine addiction,
which drained his finances. He was arrested several times, mostly for drug related offences.
When the Turners were inducted into the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame in 1991,
Ike could not show up, as he was in Prison at the time. As Ike's fame diminished,
Tina mounted a huge comeback in the 1980's.
He eventually tamed his drug addiction, and won his Grammy this year for
" Risin with the Blues ".
The cause of death was not immediately known.
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