Ike Turner Jr., adopted son of Tina and Ike Turner, dies at 67

Ike Turner Jr., the adopted son of singers Tina Turner and Ike Turner, died Saturday at a hospital in Los Angeles, his cousin Jacqueline Bullock said. He was 67. Bullock said Turner Jr. had been hospitalized with kidney failure after years of declining health and had recently suffered a stroke; she added that he had long battled heart problems.

Born in 1958 to musician Ike Turner Sr. and Lorraine Taylor, Turner Jr. was adopted by Tina Turner early in his childhood and grew up amid his parents’ music careers. He largely lived outside the public spotlight in later years but worked as a musician and sound engineer, briefly serving as Tina Turner’s sound engineer after her split from Ike Turner and later helping to run Bolic Sound Studios, the recording complex founded by his father.

Family members and those who knew him described Turner Jr. as musically talented from an early age. He received a Grammy Award in 2007 as a contributor to his father’s album Risin With the Blues, which won Best Traditional Blues Album. In a statement announcing his death, Bullock said, "Junior was more than a cousin to me, but rather a brother, as we grew up in the same famed household together." She...