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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Dinah Washington (redirect from The Queen of the Blues)
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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Honorific nicknames in popular music (redirect from The Queen of Slovak Pop Music)
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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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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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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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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Mary Millington (redirect from Respectable: The Mary Millington Story)
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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fare as well on the charts. Stevens' 1971 single, "Bridget the Midget (The Queen of the Blues)," first appeared on a collection called Ray Stevens' Greatest...
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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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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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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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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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House of Blues is an American chain of live music concert halls and restaurants. It was founded by Isaac Tigrett, the co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and...
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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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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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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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[search]". blues.org. The Blues Foundation. 2021. Retrieved January 14, 2021. Queen Ida at AllMusic Queen Ida discography at Discogs Queen Ida info Queen Ida...
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