Ike Turner Jr., the musician and Grammy-winning sound engineer who grew up amid American music royalty as the son of Ike Turner Sr. and the adopted son of Tina Turner, died Saturday, Oct. 4, in Los Angeles of kidney failure. He was 67. His death comes a little over two years after Tina Turner’s passing […]
Brownsville, Tennessee, has quietly celebrated Tina Turner for years. On Sept. 27, the city unveiled a new tribute cast in bronze: a life-size statue of the Rock ’n’ Roll icon near Carver High School, across from Heritage Park and a short drive from Nutbush, where she grew up. Designed by Atlanta-based sculptor Fred Ajanogha, the […]