Disco legend Loleatta Holloway passed on Monday March 21st after slipping into a coma. Holloway died of congestive heart failure at a suburban Chicago hospital. She sang gospel as well as disco. Loleatta Holloway is best known for her 1980 hit “Love Sensation”.
One of Hollywood’s legendary starlets has died. Actress Elizabeth Taylor passed away on Wednesday March 23rd at the age of 79 from congestive heart failure. She recently spent 2 months at a Los Angeles area hospital for heart problems. Among Taylor’s biggest works are the movies “Cat On A Hot Tin Roof”, “Giant”, and “Cleopatra”.
Delta Bluesman Pinetop Perkins, one of the last surviving pre-World War II bluesmen, died Monday March 21st at the age of 97. Perkins was in his mid-70s when his first solo recordings were released, and he continued recording and performing into his 90s as one of the last remaining links with the origins of the blues in an almost forgotten world of segregation and share cropping in the Mississippi delta.
Last month, three years short of his century, he won a Grammy for his final recording, making him the oldest Grammy winner, surpassing comedian George Burns, who was 95 when he won in the spoken category in 1990.
