Ike Turner Jr., the son of Tina Turner and Ike Turner Sr., has died at age 67.
Ike Jr. died Saturday at a Los Angeles hospital from kidney failure, Tina’s niece, Jacquline Bullock, told TMZ .
Ike Turner Sr. with his son Ike Turner Jr. at the 2007 Grammy Awards. Getty Images
Bullock said Ike Jr. battled “severe heart issues” for years and suffered a stroke early last month.
In a statement to Page Six , Bullock said: “It is with great sadness that we announce the passing of my cousin, Ike Turner, Jr. ‘Junior’ was more than a cousin to me, but rather a brother, as we grew up in the same famed household together.”
Ike Turner and Tina Turner. Redferns
“As the son of Tina and Ike Turner, from an early age, his talents were evident as there wasn’t an instrument he did not want to play