USA Today has reported that Grammy Award-winning “Queen of the Blues” Koko Taylor died this afternoon while recovering from surgery to repair gastrointestinal bleeding. She was 80.

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Blues icon Koko Taylor dies

She was recovering slowly but surely, and then she had a real bad night,” a spokesman for Taylor’s longtime Chicago-based label, Alligator Records, told the Chicago Tribune.

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