Tina Turner’s backing singer said she used to wear sunglasses and use make up before shows to cover up marks from the beatings she took from her first husband Ike Turner. PP Arnold, 77, who rose to fame from the age of 17 when she started as one of the trio of Ikette singers in the Ike and Tina Revue, witnessed the aftermaths of the violence inflicted on Tina by abusive Ike before the late ‘Private Dancer’ singer got free from the relationship by divorcing him in 1978. She told People: “I saw her face swollen with a black eye, before we go on stage.