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Ike Turner November.5.1931 - December.7.2007

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Ike Wister Turner
was an American musician, bandleader, songwriter, arranger, talent scout, and record producer. In a career that lasted more than half a century, his repertoire included blues, soul, rock, and funk. He is most popularly known for his 1960s work with his then wife Tina Turner in the Ike & Tina Turner revue. Growing up in Clarksdale, Mississippi, he began playing piano and guitar when he was eight, forming his group, the Kings of Rhythm as a teenager at high school.

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Ike and Tina Turner Soul Train Interview

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Ike Turne - St. Louis Walk of Fame

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Ike Turner played a profound role in shaping American music. His band’s1951 single “Rocket 88” is often regarded as the first rock & roll record. As a talent scout and A&R man, he discovered or recorded many blues legends, including Elmore James, Buddy Guy and Howlin’ Wolf. Turner moved to East St. Louis in 1954, and his Kings of Rhythm became a top rhythm & blues act in St. Louis. In the 1960s the group’s sound evolved into the pulsating rock and roll of Ike & Tina Turner. Famous for his boogie-woogie piano and whammy-bar guitar signatures,

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Ike and Tina Turner Inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

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The Ike and Tina Turner Revue was one of the highest energy ensembles on the soul circuit in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Ike Turner had begun as a bandleader and talent scout in the ‘40s for blues and R&B performers. He recorded “Rocket 88,” considered by many the first rock ‘n’ roll recording, under the name of his baritone sax player, Jackie Brenston, in 1951. Turner and his band, the Kings of Rhythm, found a young singer named Annie Mae Bullock in 1956. Eventually, the singer was renamed Tina Turner and the two married.

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Ike Turner - Mississippi Musician

Source: Mississippi Writers & Musicians

Ike Turner is one of the best-known performers of the early 60's and 70's. A talented and successful musician, Ike Turner was born November 5, 1931 in Clarksdale, Mississippi. As a teenager Ike played the piano and was a disc jockey on radio station WROX. In 1951, he joined a Rhythm and Blues group called the Kings of Rhythm. The Kings of Rhythm had one major hit song called "Rocket 88." Then Ike became a talent scout. and discovered Annie Mae Bullock. In 1956 Annie Mae and Ike feel in love and soon got married. Annie later changed her name to Tina Turner. Ike added Tina to their group's horn section and also added some backup singers. The group was later renamed The Ike and Tina Turner Revue.

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Ike Turner - The Kings of Rhythm, The Grammys, The Handys & more…

Source: Thrill Entertainment Group

2001 marked the Golden Anniversary of a GOLD Record from an Era when Fifty-thousand 45’s was a BIG Seller. That 500K-selling single cut the edge of a new style before deejay Alan Freed named it: ROCK & ROLL. Sam Phillips, Sun Studios founder, tagged that Billboard #1 R&B Smash as the very first “Rock & Roll Recording”. Every hell-raiser, hip-shaker, and hit-maker owes a nod to that teenager recognized by Rock historians as the “Father of Rock & Roll”.

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