Koko Taylor Dead:Coco Taylor
By Spread-Music on Jun 3, 2009 in Music News | 0 Comments | |
Koko Taylor Dead:Coco Taylor – Koko Taylor (coco taylor) who was a blues legend has died moments ago at the age of 80, while recuperating from surgery to repair gastrointestinal bleeding.A spokesman for Taylor’s longtime Chicago-based label, Alligator Records, told the Chicago Tribune.
“She was recovering slowly but surely, and then she had a real bad night.”
Here is Koko Taylor biography:
She was born Cora Walton in 1928 in Memphis, orphaned by age 11, and worked in the cotton fields to support herself. She and her future husband, Robert “Pops” Taylor, came to Chicago in 1952, and her big voice soon began filling South Side clubs.
Her final performance was May 7 in Memphis at the Blues Music Awards. After being honored as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year she sang “Wang Dang Doodle,” her signature song.
Here’s a 1967 clip of Koko Taylor singing “Wang Dang Doodle,” with Little Walter on harmonica.
That’s all we have for now on Koko Taylor Dead:Coco Taylor.
