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Grammy
Winning Blues Singer Added To Air Jamaica Jazz Fest Line-Up |
NEW YORK, NY
Jan. 11, 2008: Chicago-born
Grammy- award-winning blues singer, Koko Taylor, has been
added to the January 24-27, 2008 line-up of the annual Air
Jamaica Jazz & Blues Festival.
Known worldwide as The Queen Of The Blues, Taylor was born
and raised on a sharecropper's farm just outside of Memphis
and began singing in church as a child. At 18, Taylor moved
to Chicago. While working as a domestic on Chicago's ritzy
North Shore by day, she began to sit in with the various
blues bands across the city's South Side at night. The great
producer/songwriter Willie Dixon heard Koko singing with
Howlin' Wolf's band one night and quickly secured a contract
with Chess Records for her, where she scored a
million-selling hit with Wang Dang Doodle.
Over the course of her nine Alligator albums, Taylor has won
every award the blues world has to offer, including eight
Grammy Award nominations. She won a Grammy Award in 1984 for
her participation in the compilation album Blues Explosion.
Taylor has performed for Presidents George H.W. Bush and
Bill Clinton, and appeared on television and in movies
countless times.
On her recent album, 'Old School,' Taylor returns to the
sounds of the 1950s electric blues she heard when first
arriving in Chicago on a Greyhound bus from Memphis. With
five original compositions (more than she has written on any
previous recording) and singular reinterpretations of songs
she carefully chose, Old School has been hailed as the best
album of her entire career.
Taylor will replace Taj Mahal on the Saturday January 26,
2008 line-up that is already receiving rave reviews from
fans and resulting in tickets for the festival and airlines
as well as hotel rooms becoming hot selling commodities. |
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Others on the
star-studded line-up include legendary singer, Diana Ross;
eight-time Grammy Award winner, Anita Baker, revered
'Caribbean Queen' singer, Billy Ocean, Grammy winner Jill
Scott, newcomer Ryan Shaw, Spyro Gyra, Lou Gramm of
Foreigner, Yerba Buena, pianist Marjorie Whylie, JT Taylor,
Kool & the Gang's former " Legendary Voice," Jessica Yap; AJ
Brown, Dwight Stephenson and 13- year-old powerhouse Nikki.
Tickets to the festival are still available at the event's
home page: http://www.airjamaicajazzandblues.com/08/.
But the executive producer is reminding fans that tickets
will only be sold for a limited time to the January 24-26,
2008 event and is urging all to ensure they snap up tickets
now.
Meanwhile, many hotels in the Montego Bay area have already
sold-out, but fans can still book rooms for the Caribbean's
biggest party this month.
Fans expecting to arrive in Jamaica on Wednesday, January
23rd and leave on Sunday, January 27th can find rooms at
villas like
www.xamaicaresortholidays.com.
In Montego Bay, rooms are available at Toby's Resort for
$325. Not too far from MoBay is Runaway Beach. The two
resorts where rooms are available are at Sunflower Resort
and Villas for $350, and Club Ambiance for $850. In Negril,
located an hour away from MoBay, there are two resorts:
Samsara Hotel in Negril costs $390 for a room, and Rondel
Village costs $590 a room. Rooms are going fast, so fans are
encouraged to visit
http://www.ytbtravel.com/hardbeattravel or call
(618) 655 - 9520 to book as soon as possible.
The Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues Festival, since its
introduction in 1996, has attracted thousands of patrons
from the USA, Europe, the Caribbean and Jamaica.
International artistes that have performed at the festival
include Alicia Keys, Kenny Rogers, Norah Jones, Julio
Iglesias, Roberta Flack, Lou Rawls, Dionne Warwick, India
Arie, Nancy Wilson, Earth Wind and Fire, Kenny G., Michael
McDonald, Gladys Knight, Kool & the Gang, Al
Jarreau,Branford Marsalis, Brian McKnight Harry Belafonte,
Babyface, Stephanie Mills, George Benson, Erykah Badu,
Gladys Knight, Michael Bolton, and many more. And to bring
the Jamaican flavor, well-known names such as Ziggy Marley,
Morgan Heritage, Third World, Toots Hibbert, Shaggy, Sean
Paul Maxi Priest, Beres Hammond, Monty Alexander, Ritchie
Stephens and many other Jamaican talents have made their
mark on the Air Jamaica Jazz and Blues stage.
This year the festival is being presented by key title
sponsor, Olint along with support from Air Jamaica, the
Jamaica Tourist Board, Oasis Bottled Water, Viva Sparkling
Water, Audi, Vitamalt, Power and Charmin. |
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