The Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina Turner, a global superstar, singer, and mother of four, gave birth to her first child at the age of 18.

The music icon who passed away on Wednesday at the age of 83 after a “long illness,” gave birth to her first child, Raymond Craig, in August 1958 with Kings of Rhythm saxophonist Raymond Hill.

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Born on April 29, 1933, Hill was an American tenor saxophonist and singer. He was best known as a member of Ike Turner’s band the Kings of Rhythm in the 1950s, and also recorded under his own name and worked as a session musician.

He was born in Clarksdale, Mississippi. Hill learned to play the saxophone while working for his father, who ran a juke joint that featured performers like Sonny Boy Williamson and Robert Nighthawk. Together with his friend, drummer Billy Gayles, he began performing in Ike Turner‘s bands in the late 1940s, both the larger Tophatters big band and the smaller Kings of Rhythm.

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At the band’s first recording sessions at the Sun Studio in Memphis, Tennessee, in March 1951, Hill served as Turner’s regular tenor saxophonist. The sessions resulted in the R&B classic “Rocket 88,” which is credited to Hill’s fellow saxophonist and singer Jackie Brenston.

In 1952, Hill quit Turner’s regular performing band due to a payment issue. He nevertheless continued to contribute to some of Turner’s recordings and also performed as a session musician for Sun and other regional record labels like Highwater, providing support for artists like Howlin’ Wolf and Little Junior Parker, among others. Hill performs as the featured performer on both the instrumental side, Part 2, of Jesse Hill’s “Oo-poo-pah-doo” and Parker’s “Mystery Train” on tenor sax.

He joined Turner’s band again full-time in 1955 and relocated to St. Louis, Missouri, with them. He had a romance with Tina Turner, then known as Little Ann, a 17-year-old backup singer who joined the group in 1957. Raymond Craig, who later adopted the last name Turner, was born the year after this. Hill briefly played in Albert King’s band before going back to Clarksdale. He had left the music industry by the 1970s.

At the age of 62, he passed away in Clarksdale from heart failure.