Blues veteran Koko Taylor is on the mend after undergoing surgery to address gastrointestinal bleeding. The singer went under the knife at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago on May 19. The surgery was successful and doctors anticipate a full recovery for the 80-year-old "Queen of the Blues." Taylor's most recent live performance was May 7 at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, where she was honored as Traditional Blues Female Artist of the Year. After receiving the award, she performed her signature song, "Wang Dang Doodle."Her death came less than four weeks after her last performance, at the Blues Music Awards in Memphis, where she collected her record 29th Blues Music Award. She had surgery May 19 and appeared to be recovering until taking a turn Wednesday morning, and was with friends and family when she died.
Koko Taylor, a Chicago musical icon who became one of the most revered female blues vocalists of her time with signature hits such as "Wang Dang Doodle," "I'm a Woman" and "Hey Bartender," died Wednesday at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago of complications from gastrointestinal surgery. She was 80.
Born Cora Walton in Memphis in 1928, she grew up on a sharecropper's farm outside Memphis. Young Cora and her three brothers and two sisters slept on pallets in a shotgun shack with no running water or electricity. By the time she was 11, both her parents had died. She picked cotton to survive, and moved to Chicago in the early '50s to be with her future husband, Robert "Pops" Taylor. She found a job working as a domestic. Pops Taylor died in 1989.
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