Koko Taylor's Death

The blues singer Koko Taylor died at the age of 80. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Grammy and Blues Music Award-winning singer who is known as the Queen of the Blues and who recorded “Wang Dang Doodle.”

She married Robert Pops Taylor in 1953 and remarried Hay Harris in 1996.

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I used to listen to the radio, and when I was about 18 years old, B.B. King was a disc jockey and he had a radio program, 15 minutes a day, over in West Memphis, Arkansas, and he would play the blues.

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Blues is my life. It’s a true feeling that comes from the heart, not something that just comes out of my mouth. Blues is what I love, and blues is what I always do.

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Something magic happens when I get to a club or get on stage.

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I was so glad to get out of the cotton patch and stop pickin’ cotton, I wouldn’t of cared who come by and said, ‘I’ll take you to Chicago.’

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Up on that stage, my personality changes. I put everything behind me when I perform. My problems don’t belong to my fans. I don’t put a burden on my audience. I give them 100 percent of my energy.