Afida Turner Instagram Screenshot
Singer Tina Turner with her son Ronnie, who died at the age of 62.
DEATH – Son of American music legends Tina and Ike Turner, Ronald “Ronnie” Turner, 62, is dead this Friday, December 9, as announced by his wife, the French singer Afida Turneron his social networks.
” I did everything I could until the end. This time, I couldn’t save you. […] Rest in peace with your brother Craig, your father Ike and Aline. It’s so unfair wrote the reality star on her Instagram account, wishing to send a final message to ” [son] husband, [son] best friend, [son] baby “.
Shortly after this first announcement, it was Tina Turner herself who spoke about the death of her son, expressing her grief with sobriety. ” Ronnie, you left the world far too soon. In pain I close my eyes and think of you, my beloved son “wrote the 83-year-old singer on her social networks.
“Fuck Cancer”
Very active on social networks, Afida Turner shared a second publication where the singer of born an angel returned in more detail to the cause of death of her husband, with whom she shared her life since 2007.
According to the former candidate of Loft Story, her husband would have fallen ill in the space of “three weeks”. In question ? A “fucking cancer” in the words of Afida Turner.
The whole is accompanied by photos of Ronnie and his father, Ike, a famous musician and singer of blues and rock. With his wife Tina Turner, the couple formed the duo Ike & Tina Turner, at the origin of many classics before their separation in 1976.
And like the rest of his family, Ronnie was also a musician. According to People magazine, the son of Tina Turner was also a member of a group, named Manufactured Funk. It is also possible to see it in the film What’s Love Got to Do with It, a biopic dedicated to his mother and in which he played a minor role.
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