Tina Turner, the American Soul singer was married twice during her 83 years on earth. She was first married to Ike Turner from 1962 until 1978. When she finally found love again in 2013, she remarried Erwin Bach and was with him until her death on May 24, 2023.
Before her first marriage, the R&B singer dated saxophonist Raymond Hill and after Ike, she dated James Ralston, and allegedly dated David Bowie, Mick Jagger, and Euge Groove.
Tina Turner finally found love again and settled with Erwin whom she dated for 27 years before they married.
Tina Turner’s First Husband was Ike Turner
When they initially met, they had a brother-and-sister type of relationship but eventually, things began to spice up between them. Tina and Ike met in 1957 and were friends for 3 years.
Their relationship started as an affair as Ike was dating Lorraine Taylor at the time. Their affair started when Tina was scared about another musician who had threatened her and so went to sleep in Ike Turner’s room. That was the first time they had s*x and they secretly began dating.
The couple got married in 1962 in Tijuana and a year later, he bought a house for them at the View Park area. Tina and her husband lived with their 4 children. There were her 2 sons; Craig whom she had from a previous relationship, and Ronnie whom she had with Ike. They also lived with her husband’s 2 sons, Ike Jr. Turner and Michael Turner.
Ike and Turner were together for 16 years, married for 14 and the last 2 years were spent separated and in divorce. The couple’s divorce was finalized in 1978 after Tina filed for it citing ‘irreconcilable differences’.
Tina was in an abusive relationship with her first husband and this was what inspired her to leave Ike Turner. The first time he hit her was when she wanted to end their affair but the singer, Ike wasn’t having it. She also didn’t leave because she had grown to care deeply for him at the time.
Eventually, the ‘Queen of Rock and Roll’ couldn’t stand the abuse and left her ex-husband on July 1, 1976. 26 days later, she filed for a divorce from him and demanded alimony, child support, and custody of her sons.
By March 29, 1978, the divorce was official and Tina never looked back. She detailed her ordeal in the hands of her first husband and concluded that she was better off without him. She also stated that Ike Turner wasn’t one who could be forgiven easily.
At the end of the marriage, Ike Turner revealed that he was never really married to Rock and Roll singer. He admitted that he was married to someone else at the time and so was never officially married to Tina. However, they were in a common-law marriage and this meant they had to go through the normal divorce process.
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Erwin Bach is the Second Husband of Tina Turner
Many years after her divorce from Ike, Tina found love once again in Erwin Bach. Bach is a German music executive who met and fell in love with Tina Turner 10 years after her first marriage ended.
They first met when he was sent to meet her at the Dusseldorf Airport in 1986. Bach was younger than Tina by 16 years but they were able to build a friendship. In the same year, they started dating and this continued for many years.
Tina and Erwin dated for 27 years (from 1986 to 2013) before eventually getting married in July 2013. The beginning of their relationship was kept secret for a long time but when she eventually opened up about their love life, she had only a lot of great things to say.
They never had any children together but their relationship lasted until the rock star died in May 2023.
Years before Tina Turner’s death, she suffered from kidney disease and needed a transplant. By 2016, she was in dire need of a kidney transplant. It was her long-time love, Erwin who donated one of his kidneys to her.
Did Tina Turner Truly Date These Men?
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Tina Turner Dated Raymond Hill
Before Turner got married to Ike Turner, she was in a relationship with Singer and saxophonist Raymond Hill. They had a child together named Raymond who later changed his name to Craig.
Their relationship lasted from 1956 to 1958. In 1996, Raymond Hill reportedly committed suicide.
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James Ralston
After her marriage ended, Turner sought solace in the arms of James Ralston. He was a musician whom Turner performed with severally. They dated for 1 year, from 1982 to 1983.
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David Bowie
Asides from the obvious chemistry these two shared when it came to music, Tina and David were speculated to have shared an off-stage romance too. When the ‘Let’s Dance’ duet was released, it got a lot of people interested in their love life outside work.
The R&B singer severally refuted the claims but people still believed she and Bowie shared a thing.
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Mick Jagger
Just like with David Bowie, the relationship rumors between these two were shut out. The chemistry Tina shared with Jagger during performances led many to believe that they had a behind-closed-doors relationship.
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Euge Groove
Euge Groove is yet another saxophonist whom Turner was rumored to have dated. The supposed couple toured together in the early 2000s and it was during these tours that relationship rumors began to spark. However, at the time, she was already in a longe-time relationship with Bach.
Of all these relationships, it is obvious that the only men Tina dated were Raymond Hill, her first husband, Ike Turner, James Ralston, and her last husband Erwin Bach.
