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Blues Legend Dies
June 4th, 2009
Legendary blues belter Koko Taylor, who dominated the blues charts for many years and was nominated for eight Grammys, died in Chicago Wednesday from complications from surgery. She was 80. A sharecropper’s daughter, the aptly dubbed “Queen of the Blues” was admitted into Northwestern Memorial Hospital roughly two weeks ago for gastrointestinal bleeding, from which she never fully recovered, her publicist at Alligator Records, Marc Lipkin, said in a statement. Read more.
Yes she was a great singer. Other songs of her I like are ” I’m a woman”, “I cried like a baby” , “voodoo woman” and her Christmas Song “Merry Merry Christimas”
Another person is lost who was one of the foundations of our Black American culture and music. Blues music as a whole is the chief element of Black music and culture.
She will be missed, we gon wang dang doodle all night long.
well that sad a gastro killed her well she was at the age 80 well my grand -mother died at the age 80 too and i did miss her after a period of time and said well my grand -mother she look tied yes but she was nice to me,and well young girl i used to say my mother will never accepted she letf us or her and later my mother became really sick now .and i’am alone cross the road now.fight for what i like coming back and force like i used to do in usa…since they mess up my passport at the airport in miami.because french citizen don’t need visas for usa but someone make me to get one just because they was jealoux of me.black and they was cuban american.assol they was.condoleance to this wonderful grand -ma love .
for her family keep faith in God and strength and pray.
that happened to me too already lost my grand -ma but you get a empty somewhere.well but you have to continue to fight no matter what….again condoleance.
She aint nobody special, i donts even know her. You wanna talk about legends look up real peeps like Kanye, Soulja boy, and Lil Boosie. Them some real n**az that have paved the way fo us in music. I’ll spin my rims all day for them.
Bustin caps fo yo a**,
J
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SHE WAS A LEGEND !!!! The younsters don’t know the innavators but We know them.. Talented singer with a beautiful voice…. thanks BET for allowing people to grieve her death…
is a distant and dying memory for young black americans! raised on a diet of the dross being churned out today, most of them can never know the power and beauty of music such as these.. what a pity.. may this lady’s soul rest in perfect peace .
I remember growing up in St.Louis listening when the predominately black music station was KATZ. They would play the blues late week nites. Thats how I came to hear Ms Koko Taylor.Being a mere child in the mid 60’s to early 70’s I didn’t really appreciate the blues. But certain blues singers did capture my imagination and she was one of them. Wang dang doodle all night long…all nite long…all nite long…