• Queen of the Blues is an album by the American blues singer Koko Taylor, released in 1985. The album was nominated for a Grammy Award for "Best Traditional...
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    styles including blues, R&B, and traditional pop music, and gave herself the title of "Queen of the Blues". She was also known as "Queen of the Jukeboxes"....
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  • dubbed "the Queen of Chicago blues" (and sometimes just the blues in general), Koko Taylor helped keep the tradition of big-voiced, brassy female blues belters...
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    Koko Taylor (category American blues singers)
    style encompassed Chicago blues, electric blues, rhythm and blues and soul blues. Sometimes called "The Queen of the Blues", she was known for her rough...
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  • said of Bryden that she was "Britain's queen of the blues". Bryden was born in Norwich, Norfolk, England, on 11 May 1920 and was the only child of Amos...
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  • ragtime-vaudeville, Delta and country blues, and urban styles from Chicago and the West Coast. In the last several decades, blues music has developed a less regional...
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    Blues is a music genre and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues has incorporated...
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  • The Grammy Award for Best Traditional Blues Album was awarded from 1983 to 2011 and from 2017 onwards. Until 1992 the award was known as Best Traditional...
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  • Aykroyd, both of whom were also producers, and starring Aykroyd and John Goodman. The film serves as a sequel to the 1980 film The Blues Brothers. It also...
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  • News of the World is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Queen, released on 28 October 1977 by EMI Records in the United Kingdom and by Elektra...
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    Denise LaSalle (category Soul-blues musicians)
    producer who, since the death of Koko Taylor, had been recognized as the "Queen of the Blues". Her husband was rapper Super Wolf. LaSalle's best-known songs...
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    Bluestocking (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    member of the 18th-century Blue Stockings Society from England led by the hostess and critic Elizabeth Montagu (1718–1800), the "Queen of the Blues", including...
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  • Bridget the Midget may refer to: Bridget Powers (born 1980), American erotic film actress "Bridget the Midget (The Queen of The Blues)", a 1971 novelty...
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  • appearance in Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979), which was a flop, and she played the title role in Queen of the Blues (1979). She appeared in...
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    Decades Of Pop And Rock Music. In the early 1970s, Queen helped spur the heavy metal genre's evolution by discarding much of its blues influence. Queen's 1974...
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  • The Blues Brothers are an American blues and soul revue band founded in 1978 by comedians Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi, who met and began collaborating...
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    and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within the African-American community in the 1940s. The term...
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  • Ida Cox (category Classic female blues singers)
    for her blues performances and recordings. She was billed as "The Uncrowned Queen of the Blues". Cox was born Ida M. Prather, the daughter of Lamax and...
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    later Parker Bowles, 17 July 1947) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the 14 other Commonwealth realms as the wife of King Charles III. Camilla was raised...
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  • The Breaking of Bumbo (1970), Man in the Wilderness (1971) with Richard Harris, Sitting Target (1972), Double Exposure (1977), Queen of the Blues (1979)...
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  • novelty hit single "Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)." This collection contains two more singles from Barnaby while the rest are recordings for...
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    Alberta Adams (category American blues singers)
    Records. In 2006 she released the EP Detroit's Queen of the Blues, which was named Outstanding Blues/R&B Recording at the 2006 Detroit Music Awards. At...
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  • Milton Reid (category Indian emigrants to the United Kingdom)
    Adventure (1979) – Jinnee Queen of the Blues (1979) – Ricky Arabian Knights (1979) – Servant Westcountry Tales (1981) – The Monster Mard (1985) – Villain...
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  • sexploitation pictures, Confessions from the David Galaxy Affair (1979) and Queen of the Blues (1979). The film ran in London for 34 consecutive weeks...
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  • Marion James (category American blues singers)
    December 31, 2015) was an American blues singer and songwriter. She was considered Nashville's "Queen of the Blues". Her career spanned 60 years, and...
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  • The Blues and Royals (Royal Horse Guards and 1st Dragoons) (RHG/D) is a cavalry regiment of the British Army, part of the Household Cavalry. The Colonel...
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  • Queen is the debut studio album by the British rock band Queen. Released on 13 July 1973 by EMI Records in the UK and by Elektra Records in the US, it...
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  • Memphis Minnie (category American blues guitarists)
    was a blues guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter whose recording career lasted for over three decades. She recorded around 200 songs, some of the best known...
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    Greg Davis, former college football coach Janis Joplin, noted "Queen of the Blues", famous for her raspy voice and soulful style Mary Karr, American poet...
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    performed New Orleans blues. He was active in two distinct periods, first in the heyday of early rhythm and blues and later in the resurgence of interest in traditional...
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