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Koko Taylor (born Cora Ann Walton, September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American singer whose style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough, powerful vocals.
May 30, 2024 · Koko Taylor (born September 28, 1928, Bartlett, Tennessee, U.S.—died June 3, 2009, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.) was an American blues singer who forged a musical career that spanned nearly half a century and earned her the nickname “Queen of the Blues.”
Jun 4, 2009 · Grammy Award winner Koko Taylor, dubbed the “Queen of the Blues,” died yesterday in her native Chicago following complications from her May 19th surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding, the...
Jun 3, 2009 · Potent blues singer who scored one of Chess Records' last big hits in 1966 and began a long run with Alligator in 1975. Read Full Biography.
Jun 4, 2009 · Koko Taylor, one of the few female singers to achieve success in the competitive world of Chicago blues, died on Wednesday in Chicago. She was 80. She died of complications following surgery...
Jun 9, 2009 · Best known for her hit song "Wang Dang Doodle," Taylor, who died June 3 at age 80, won nearly every award offered in the blues world. Taylor's career started in Chicago, where she lived from...
Jun 4, 2009 · Koko Taylor, the soulful blues songstress, died Wednesday in Chicago at the age of 80, due to complications from a stomach surgery. Taylor, born Cora Walton, grew up outside Memphis,...
Jun 4, 2009 · Koko Taylor, the Grammy Award-winning blues veteran dubbed the Queen of the Blues, has died at the age of 80. Taylor died at a Chicago hospital on Wednesday after suffering...
Jun 3, 2009 · Blues legend Koko Taylor died this afternoon. That's one of the few introductory sentences about Taylor that don't also include the words "The Queen of Chicago Blues" -- or, more ambitiously...
Jun 4, 2009 · CHICAGO — Koko Taylor, a sharecropper’s daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet “Queen of the Blues,” has died after complications from surgery. She was 80.
