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.
Taylor (80) died on Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital about two weeks after having surgery for a gastrointestinal bleed.
‘The passion that she brought and the fire and the growl in her voice when she sang was the truth,’ blues singer and musician Ronnie Baker Brooks said on Wednesday.
Taylor’s career stretched more than five decades.
While she did not have widespread mainstream success, she was revered and beloved by blues aficionados, and earned worldwide acclaim for her work, which including the best-selling song ‘Wang Dang Doodle’ and tunes such as ‘What Kind of Man is This’ and ‘I Got What It Takes’.
– Nampa-AP
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