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Taylor, Koko

LC control no.n 81111995
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Personal name headingTaylor, Koko
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Variant(s)Walton, Cora
Biography/History notesinger; born 1938
Birth date1928-09-28
Death date2009-06-03
Field of activityBlues (Music)
Profession or occupationSingers
Found inBlues/rock avalanche. [Phonodisc] 1972.
Enc. of pop. mus., 3rd ed. (Taylor, Koko; b. Cora Walton, Sept. 28, 1935, Memphis, Tenn.)
New York times WWW site, June 4, 2009 (in obituary published June 3: Koko Taylor; b. Cora Walton, just outside Memphis; m. Robert "Pops" Taylor; d. Wednesday [June 4, 2009], Chicago, aged 80; sharecropper's daughter whose regal bearing and powerful voice earned her the sobriquet "Queen of the Blues")
All music guide WWW site, Oct. 12, 2011 (Koko Taylor; b. Cora Walton, Sept. 28, 1928, Memphis, TN, d. June 3, 2009, Chicago, IL; blues vocalist)