KOKO TAYLOR
Blues / RnB • United States
Jazz music community with review and forums
Grammy Award-winning blues legend Koko Taylor, 80, died on June 3, 2009 in her hometown of Chicago, IL, as a result of complications following her May 19 surgery to correct a gastrointestinal bleed. On May 7, 2009, the critically acclaimed Taylor, known worldwide as the “Queen of the Blues,” won her 29th Blues Music Award (for Traditional Female Blues Artist Of The Year), making her the recipient of more Blues Music Awards than any other artist. In 2004 she received the NEA National Heritage Fellowship Award, which is among the highest honors given to an American artist. Her most recent CD, 2007’s Old School, was nominated for a Grammy (eight of her nine Alligator albums were Grammy-nominated). She won a Grammy in 1984 for her guest appearance on the compilation album Blues Explosion on Atlantic.
Born Cora Walton on a sharecropper’s farm just outside Memphis, TN, on September 28, 1928, Koko,
read more...
Thanks to snobb for the addition
KOKO TAYLOR Online Videos
No KOKO TAYLOR online videos available. Search and add one now.
Buy KOKO TAYLOR music
More places to buy jazz & KOKO TAYLOR music
KOKO TAYLOR Discography
KOKO TAYLOR albums / top albums
KOKO TAYLOR EPs & splits
KOKO TAYLOR live albums
KOKO TAYLOR demos, promos, fans club and other releases (no bootlegs)
KOKO TAYLOR re-issues & compilations
![]()
KOKO TAYLOR singles (0)
KOKO TAYLOR movies (DVD, Blu-Ray or VHS)
KOKO TAYLOR Reviews
No KOKO TAYLOR music reviews posted yet.
KOKO TAYLOR Movies Reviews
No KOKO TAYLOR movie reviews posted yet.
KOKO TAYLOR Shouts
Please login to post a shout
No shouts posted yet. Be the first member to do so above!