The culture of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue was when you’re on stage, you perform not 100 percent but at least 200 percent. She remembers, “Every night with Ike & Tina was a high point. Over the next three years as an Ikette, Claudia Lennear really began to hone her musical performance skills. Want Your Own Piece Of 100% Authentic Music Memorabilia? Click HERE! I passed the audition with Ike so I left the Superbs behind.” Embed from Getty Images She introduced me to Ike Turner and set up an audition. I thought she was kidding but I did take her up on it. She said, ‘I can get you an audition for Ike & Tina Turner’.
I think we met at a Temptations concert in Los Angeles. She was a prominent background singer for many Motown artists and others at the time. “Somewhere between promoting the Superbs is when I contacted Sherlie Matthews. It became a bit of a local hit and the group played lots of small shows across Los Angeles.Īfter realizing that she was living amongst the stars and in proximity of one of her biggest musical inspirations growing up, Ike & Tina Turner, she began networking. In 1968, the group released the single “One Bad Habit” on Doré Records. Once in California, Claudia Lennear began singing with the Superbs, a sweet soul harmony group. Soon after, the throaty and husky soul of Carla Thomas and Ike & Tina Turner began to have a big influence on her musically. My mother and grandmother taught me the standards like “The Lord’s Prayer” and “His Eye Is on the Sparrow.” Those types of songs.”Īs she approached her teenage years, Claudia Lennear began to be drawn to the likes of Patti LaBelle & the Bluebelles and Gladys Knight & the Pips. I grew up Catholic but we always kept our roots. “I didn’t really come up in the black church. In an interview with Pop Matters, she remembers. Want Your Own Piece Of 100% Authentic Music Memorabilia? Click HERE! Embed from Getty Images
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