Original Ikettes member Robbie Montgomery recalls their shared dreams of becoming stars and how Tina Turner held on to a fortune teller’s message of hope during her turbulent relationship with Ike.
“Tina was like a sister to me. We would try to get her to leave. We talked about it all the time, every time it happened,” Montgomery tells, Montgomery — in her own words — recalls their shared dreams of becoming stars and how Turner held on to a fortune teller’s message of hope during her turbulent relationship with Ike. Back in those days, her name was “Little Ann.” That was one of Ike’s things, he used “Little” for everybody. We had an instant connection.
She never thought she was a great singer. During those times there were the Diana Rosses and people with the pretty voices — she didn’t have that, she was a rough singer. [But] she was a great performer. Nobody could do it like her. She was an entertainer from her heart. We were all 21, trying to make it. We were excited, didn’t know what we were doing. There were maybe three revues out during that time: James Brown, Bobby “Blue” Bland, and Ike and Tina. Ike was very serious. We would rehearse all the way in the car, rehearse in hotels. We would rehearse any place that he called a rehearsal.
We didn’t realize we were making history because a lot of it wasn’t that glamorous. We went to our gigs, traveled by bus, went to the hotel, rehearsed, and the next morning did the same thing, over and over again. It was just trying to keep surviving and working, focusing on becoming the best. We would make up our choreography, we would pick our own clothes and rip them up.
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