Louis from California and became a dialysis technician. Sweetie Pie's Īfter Montgomery's lung collapsed, which prevented her singing, she moved back to St. Louis-based producer andengineer Carl Nappa. Montgomery worked on the project with St. The album includes songs that are mixture of soul, blues and country. In 2018, Montgomery released her debut album, Miss Robbie's What They Call Me, which was her first release in 40 years. The band was officially appointed as ambassadors for the City of St. In 19, Montgomery toured Europe with former members of the Kings of Rhythm, including Jimmy Hinds, Clayton Love, Billy Gayles, Erskine Oglesby, Stacy Johnson and Oliver Sain, as part of the St. In the 1970's she was diagnosed with sarcoidosis which required lung surgery and derailed her singing career. She provided backing vocals for variety of acts, including Barbra Streisand, Debbie Reynolds, Joe Cocker and Stevie Wonder. Montgomery eventually left the Mirettes to join Dr. They sang on The Lost Man soundtrack produced by Quincy Jones in 1969. In 1968, they had success with the single " In the Midnight Hour" (Pop No. Their single release did not chart and they later signed with Revue Records. After trying unsuccessfully to continue using the name the Ikettes under management of Tina Turner's sister, Alline Bullock, they changed their name to the Mirettes after their new label Mirwood Records. Montgomery, Smith and Fields left the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in 1965. As an Ikette, Montogmery performed on the television shows American Bandstand, Hollywood A Go-Go, and Shindig!. In 1965, the Ikettes released two of their biggest hits on Modern Records, " Peaches 'N' Cream" (Pop No. In 1962, Turner relocated the Ike & Tina Turner Revue to California. We would gamble, sing, dance, all the way to the next gig," she told St. The Ike & Tina Turner Revue performed a grueling schedule of one-nighters on the Chitlin Circuit in the segregated south, and recorded constantly, but Montgomery recalled those timed fondly. In 1962, Montgomery released her first single,"Crazy In Love" / "Pee Wee" on Turner's Teena Records label. Montgomery and Smith along with Venetta Fields (a gospel singer from Buffalo) formed the first official incarnation of The Ikettes. During her hiatus she sang with the group Benny Sharp & the New Breed who had another female vocalist named Jessie Smith. After having her baby in 1961, Montogmery toured with blues musician Earl Hooker before she returned to Ike & Tina Turner. Montgomery was pregnant and unable to tour. Turner formed the Ike & Tina Turner Revue, but with a new group of backup singers: Delores Johnson, Eloise Hester, and Jo Armstead. "A Fool In Love," was released in July 1960 on Sue Records and became a hit, peaking at No. When Art Lassiter didn't show up for a recording session at Technisonic Studios in March 1960, Turner took the Artettes and had them accompany his backup vocalist Little Ann ( Tina Turner) on the track. Turner wrote a song, " A Fool in Love," for Lassiter. Lassiter sang with bandleader Ike Turner and his Kings of Rhythm. A local singer named Art Lassiter hired them as backup singers and they became the Artettes.
Montgomery and two neighborhood friends Frances Hodges and Sandra Harding, started a doo-wop singing group called the Chordettes, which evolved into the Rhythmettes, and they started appearing in talent shows. And I think Tina runs her ship today with some of the things Ike taught too." A lot of the stuff Ike taught us about business, I’ve applied to my own business: being on time, being prepared, and being professional. Being around Ike, we called it the Turner University because we learned so much.
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"Ike was a business man and a professional and Tina was an employee, just like we were employees. She sang in the church choir, attended Curtis Elementary School and graduated from Pruitt High School. Montgomery was raised a Baptist but is now a Methodist.
Her siblings are James, Walter, Robert, George, Everett, Linda and Janice. She grew up in the Pruitt-Igoe projects as the oldest of nine siblings. When she was six years old, her family moved to St. They lived with her great grandmother Miss Pathenia, who was an American Indian. Montgomery was born on June 16, 1940, in Columbus, Mississippi, to Ora Gray and James Montgomery.
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She later created the Sweetie Pie's franchise, and starred in the award-winning reality series Welcome to Sweetie Pie's.
In the 1970s, Montgomery was a backing vocalist for acts such as Stevie Wonder, Barbra Streisand, the Rolling Stones, and Joe Cocker. After her tenure as an Ikette, she was a member of the Mirettes, and then became a "Night Tripper" for Dr. She is noted for being one of the original Ikettes in the Ike & Tina Turner Revue in the 1960s. Robbie Montgomery (born June 16, 1940) is an American singer and restaurateur.
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