Her publicist Bernard Doherty blazoned the death in a

statement but didn't give the cause. She had a stroke in

recent times and was known to be floundering with an order

complaint and other ails. Ms. Turner embarked on her half

century career in the late 1950s, while still attending high

academy, when she began singing with Ike Turner and his

band, the Lords of Rhythm. At first, she was only an

occasional pantomime, but she soon came the group’s star

magnet and Mr. Turner’s woman. With her potent, bluesy

voice and her wild dancing style, she made an instant print.

Their ensemble was soon renamed the Ike and Tina Turner

Revue came one of the premier traveling soul acts in Black

venues on the so-called chitlin ’ circuit. After the Rolling

Monuments invited the group to open for them, first on a

British stint in 1966 and also an American stint in 1969,

white listeners in both countries began paying attention.