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Shonka Dukureh, Actress Who Sang ‘Hound Dog’ in ‘Elvis,’ Dies at 44
Shonka Dukureh, who made her Hollywood debut as the celebrated blues singer Big Mama Thornton in “Elvis,” was found dead on Thursday in Nashville. She was 44.
The Metropolitan Nashville Police Department confirmed the death but did not provide a cause, saying only that no foul play was evident. One of Ms. Dukureh’s two young children found her unresponsive in her bedroom on Thursday morning and ran to alert a neighbor, who called 911, the police said.
“Elvis,” the director Baz Luhrmann’s highly anticipated movie about the life of Elvis Presley, with Austin Butler in the title role and Tom Hanks as Presley’s manager, Tom Parker, opened in June. Big Mama Thornton, who recorded the original version of “Hound Dog” in 1952, a year before Presley had a hit with it, was Ms. Dukureh’s first major acting role. In Thornton, she found a role that melded her booming voice with her apparently emerging acting chops.
Her rendition of “Hound Dog” especially captivated audiences. She had been planning to release a studio album, titled “The Lady Sings the Blues,” according to her website.
Ms. Dukureh said she was from Nashville “by way of Charlotte, N.C.,” where she was born on Sept. 3, 1977. She originally planned to become a teacher and held a master’s degree in education from Trevecca Nazarene University, according to her website (which says she also held a bachelor’s degree in theater from Fisk University). She instead pursued the arts. Her powerful voice was heard on international tours with Jamie Lidell and the Royal Pharaohs, and was a featured vocalist on several albums.
Her performance in “Elvis” rapidly earned her fans; among them her fellow cast members. Olivia DeJonge, who played Priscilla Presley in the film, told Entertainment Weekly that watching Ms. Dukureh “was a spiritual experience.”
“To watch a star essentially be born, to have something in her sort of break free, was just — it was insane to watch,” Ms. DeJonge said.
Information on survivors was not immediately available.
The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young, who sang on the 1961 classic Please Mr. Postman, has died at 78
The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young, who sang on the 1961 classic Please Mr. Postman, has died at 78
- Daughter Meta Ventress said Young died December 15 in Garden City, Michigan
- She died due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
- Young served as the group’s lead singer for a time until departing in 1969
The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young has died at the age of 78.
Her daughter Meta Ventress told The New York Times Saturday that Young passed away due to complications from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease on December 15 in Garden City, Michigan.
Young inked with the group prior to their initial record deal with Motown, and served as the group’s lead singer for a time until leaving in 1969. She also went on to have a solo career.
The latest: The Marvelettes singer Wanda Young (center) has died at the age of 78. She was snapped with Katherine Anderson (L) and Gladys Horton (R) in London in 1965
Young was featured on several other notable songs, including Beechwood 4-5789, My Baby Must Be A Magician, Locking Up My Heart, Too Many Fish In The Sea, I’ll Keep Holding On, Don’t Mess With Bill, and The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game.
The Marvelettes are acknowledged as Motown’s breakout girl group, paving the way for other iconic groups such as the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and the Velvelettes.
The group — which at various times also consisted of members Gladys Horton (who died in 2011), Katherine Anderson, Ann Bogan, Juanita Cowart and Georgeanna Tillman (who died in 1980) — received a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination in 2013.
The group’s record label Motown said in a statement Friday, ‘We are so saddened by the news of Wanda Young of the Marvelettes passing. What an impact she has had on the world of Classic Motown and the lives of so many. Her legacy will continue to live on.’
Pioneers: The Marvelettes are acknowledged as Motown’s breakout girl group, paving the way for other iconic groups such as the Supremes, Martha Reeves and the Vandellas and the Velvelettes; Anderson, Young and Ann Bogan seen in 1968 in NYC
Acclaimed: The group received a Rock and Roll Hall of Fame nomination in 2013
‘Wanda had this little voice that was sexy to me, a little country kind of voice,’ Smokey Robinson said in liner notes on the 1993 compilation album Deliver: The Singles (1961–1971), according to the paper. ‘I knew if I could get a song to her, it would be a smash.’
Ventress told the Times that her mother ‘didn’t wake up every day thinking of The Marvelettes, but she never lost that glamour.
‘I told her constantly, “All these people love you.” And she’d say, “Wow,”‘ she recalled.
Young and Horton collaborated on the 1990 album The Marvelettes: Now, according to the newspaper, for the label Motorcity Records.
Young is survived by her three children, several grandchildren and a great-grandchild, as well as four sisters and four brothers.
Hitmaker: Young was featured on several notable songs, including Beechwood 4-5789, My Baby Must Be A Magician, Locking Up My Heart, Too Many Fish In The Sea, I’ll Keep Holding On, Don’t Mess With Bill, and The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
BTS confess they only sang in full English due to pandemic
BTS have left one of their truths untold until now.
The K-pop super group recently revealed that if it weren’t for COVID-19, they would’ve stuck (at least mostly) to their native tongue.
In an interview for a new Billboard cover story, members of the fanatically beloved boy band opened up about their discomfort with singing songs fully in English.
“There was no alternative,” 28-year-old Jin told Billboard of releasing the group’s first English language song “Dynamite” — which became the group’s first Billboard No. 1 hit — in summer 2020, and then following it with two more English songs (“Butter” and “Permission to Dance” which both also hit the No. 1 slot) this year.
While the charts and their fans ate up the tracks, the seven-member boy band were not unanimously pleased: Singing in English felt unnatural, Jin said. “The English I learned in class was so different from the English in the song,” he said. “I had to erase everything in my head first.”
With the group’s 2020 world tour plans scuttled due to COVID-19 and live performances still suspended in Korea, pivoting from Korean with some sprinklings of English instead of singing full English tracks felt like a necessary move.
In 2019, the group’s only fluent English speaker and “de facto leader” RM told Entertainment Weekly that BTS had consciously prioritized sticking to Korean over singing in English, despite English offering easier access to a number of accolades they aspired to. That was, of course, before the pandemic.
“I don’t want to compare, but I think it’s even harder as an Asian group. A Hot 100 and a Grammy nomination, these are our goals,” RM told EW at the time. “But they’re just goals — we don’t want to change our identity or our genuineness to get the No. 1. Like, if we sing suddenly in full English, and change all these other things, then that’s not BTS. We’ll do everything, we’ll try. But if we couldn’t get No. 1 or No. 5, that’s OK.”