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  • 2009 deaths
  • Grammy Award winners
  • Independent Music Awards winners
  • 20th-century American singers
  • Musicians from Tennessee
  • People from Memphis, Tennessee
  • Blues Hall of Fame inductees
  • American blues singers
  • American rhythm and blues singers
  • 1928 births
  • African-American female singers
  • American blues musicians
  • Checker Records artists
  • Chess Records artists
  • Chicago blues musicians
  • National Heritage Fellowship winners
  • People from Shelby County, Tennessee
  • Singers from Chicago, Illinois
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  • US R&B singer, sometimes referred to as %22The Queen of Chicago Blues%22. Born September 28, 1928, Bartlett, Tennessee. Dubbed %22Koko%22 due to her love of chocolate. Discovered by Willie Dixon in 1962 leading to a contract with Chess. In close collaboration with Dixon she released several singles, including the 1965 %22Wang Dang Doodle%22 previously recorded by Howlin' Wolf. Not coincidental. Taylor' had the most powerful vocal of the contemporary female Chess stablemates including Etta James, Mitty Collier and Irma Thomas and her shouting style had more in common with e.g. Big Mama Thornton and Howlin' Wolf. Her 1969 self-titled debut album is mostly a compilation of her Chess singles. From 1975 and for more than 30 years she recorded for Alligator Records. Her 1985 album %22Queen of the blues%22 won her a Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album that year. Performing till the end, she died after complications from surgery for gastrointestinal bleeding in 2009. Died June 03, 2009 in Chicago, Illinois, USA.
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  • Koko Taylor (September 28, 1928 – June 3, 2009) was an American Chicago blues singer, whose style also encompassed many genres including electric blues, rhythm and blues and blues and soul blues popularly she was known as the %22Queen of the Blues.%22 She was known primarily for her rough, powerful vocals and traditional blues stylings. Her name was sometimes styled KoKo Taylor.
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  • Koko Taylor And Her Blues Machine
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  • 1928-09-28
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  • 2009-06-03
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  • Charly Records
  • Checker Records
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  • R&B
  • Soul
  • Electric Blues
  • Soul Blues
  • Chicago Blues
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