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She died at 73 in Valley Village, California, on September 4, 2010. The media, after he died, tried to destroy his name.' By then, she was using the surname Selico. He seemed like he was forgiving and wanted to be forgiven for the things he did in his early years. She told Ebony in 2008: 'He was generous and jovial. She also wrote three songs on the 1972 album Strange Fruit by Family Vibes (formerly the Kings of Rhythm).Īfter her sister's acrimonious divorce from Ike in 1978, Bullock still considered him her brother-in-law and attended his funeral in 2007. The song has been covered by various artists, including Nina Simone. As a songwriter, Bullock wrote songs for Ike & Tina Turner, most notably ' Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter' on their album Workin' Together (1970). She briefly managed the Ikettes ( Robbie Montgomery, Venetta Fields, and Jessie Smith) after they left the revue in 1965, but Ike prevented them from using the name they became the Mirettes. She worked in the business side of the Ike & Tina Turner organization.

Bullock eventually relocated to Los Angeles and lived with Ike and Tina's four sons while they toured across the country. The duo released a string of hit records, including ' A Fool in Love' (1960), ' It's Gonna Work Out Fine' (1961), and ' I Idolize You' (1961). In 1960, Turner renamed Little Ann, giving her the name Tina Turner, and formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue. Anna Mae joined the band as Little Ann, one of Turner's vocalists.

Bullock was dating Kings of Rhythm drummer Eugene Washington when he gave Anna Mae the microphone during an intermission in 1957. Turner had the most popular band in the Greater St. Bullock worked as a barmaid at the Manhattan Club where the house band was Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. Bullock introduced her sister to the club scene in St. In 1956, Bullock's grandmother Georgeanna died and her sister Anna Mae joined them in St. After graduating from Carver High School in Brownsville, Bullock moved to Detroit to live with some relatives for a short while before reuniting with her mother in St. As a teenager, her half-sister Evelyn died in a car crash alongside her cousins Margaret and Vela Evans. Bullock and her sisters were sent to live with their grandmother Georgeanna Currie in Brownsville, Tennessee. Her father remarried soon after and moved to Detroit, Michigan. Louis, Missouri, to escape her volatile marriage. In 1950, her mother left without notice, moving to St. Shortly after, the family returned to Haywood County and she attended Flagg Grove Elementary School. After the war, Bullock and her sisters were reunited with their parents in Knoxville, Tennessee. ĭuring World War II, her parents moved up north for work and she stayed at her maternal grandparents' home while her younger sister stayed with their paternal grandparents.

Her family lived in Nutbush, Tennessee where her father worked as an overseer of the sharecroppers at Poindexter Farm on Highway 180. She had a half-sister, Evelyn Juanita Currie, who was two years older, and a younger sister, Anna Mae Bullock, three years her junior. Ruby Alline Bullock was born on December 1, 1936, the second child of Zelma Priscilla (née Currie) and first to Floyd Richard Bullock. She wrote songs for Ike & Tina Turner as well as their band the Kings of Rhythm, including ' Funkier Than a Mosquita's Tweeter' which was covered by Nina Simone. Bullock once served as the manager of the girl group the Ikettes.

#Faves of tina mom of two full

She was the older full sister of singer Tina Turner. Ruby Alline Bullock (Decem– September 4, 2010) was an American songwriter.