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====Early relationships==== While still in Brownsville, Turner fell in love for the first time with Harry Taylor.{{sfn|Bego|2005|p=31}} They met at a high school basketball game. Taylor initially attended a different school, but he relocated to be near her.{{sfn|Turner|Loder|p=26|1986}} In 1986, she told ''[[Rolling Stone]]'': "Harry was real popular and had tons of girlfriends, but eventually I got him, and we went steady for a year."<ref name="RS-19861023">{{Cite news |url= https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tina-turner-queen-of-rock-roll-190581/ |title=Tina Turner: Queen of Rock & Roll |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=January 11, 2019 |archive-date=December 15, 2018 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20181215123746/https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/tina-turner-queen-of-rock-roll-190581/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Their relationship ended after she discovered that Taylor had married another girl who was expecting his child.<ref name="RS-19861023"/> After moving to [[St. Louis]], Turner and her sister Alline became acquainted with Ike Turner's [[Kings of Rhythm]]. Alline was dating the band's drummer Eugene Washington and Tina began dating the saxophonist [[Raymond Hill (musician)|Raymond Hill]]. After Tina became pregnant during her senior year of high school, she moved in with Hill, who lived with Ike Turner.{{sfn|Turner|Loder|1986|p=53}} She recalled, "I didn't love him as much as I'd loved Harry. But he was good-looking. I thought, 'My baby's going to be beautiful.{{'"}}<ref name="RS-19861023"/> Their relationship ended after Hill broke his ankle during a wrestling match with Kings of Rhythm singer Carlson Oliver.{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=66|1986}} Hill returned to his hometown of [[Clarksdale, Mississippi|Clarksdale]] before their son Craig was born in August 1958, leaving Turner to become a single parent.{{Sfn|Turner|Loder|p=|pp=53β54|1986}}{{sfn|Bego|2005|p=55}}
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