Koko Taylor dies at 80

Koko Taylor, the Grammy Award-winning “Queen of the Blues,” died Wednesday afternoon at Northwestern Memorial Hospital of complications from surgery, according to Marc Lipkin of Alligator Records. She was 80.

Taylor, born Coral Walton on a sharecropper’s farm outside Memphis, came to Chicago in 1952 and worked as a house cleaner. She began to sit in with blues bands and in the early 1960s signed a contract with Chess Records after being approached by Willie Dixon. In 1965 she recorded her signature song, “Wang Dang Doodle.”

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Chicago blues legend Koko Taylor dies at 80

Blues Legend Koko Taylor dies

“QUEEN OF THE BLUES” KOKO TAYLOR 1928 - 2009