The singer died in New Orleans of congestive heart failure on October 3. The Dixie Cups website wrote: “The world has lost a classy lady, who had a magnificent sense of humour, a radiating smile, and ...

The Times-Picayune is marking the tricentennial of New Orleans with its ongoing 300 for 300 project, running through 2018 and highlighting the moments and people that connect and inspire us. Today, ...

Hey now / Hey now / Iko, Iko, an day, plays the simplistic, yet infectious pop hit “Iko Iko.” The enduring tune is among music’s most covered, but few renditions have captured the song’s bright New ...

Joan Marie Johnson Faust, one of the founding members of The Dixie Cups, the New Orleans singing group who reached the top of the national charts in the 1960s with “Chapel of Love” and “Iko Iko,” has ...

If you've only heard one Mardi Gras song, it's probably "Iko Iko," the hit recorded by the Dixie Cups in 1965. An earlier version (titled "Jock-a-mo") by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford came out in 1953, ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins, one of the three original singers in New Orleans rhythm & blues vocal trio the Dixie Cups, died Tuesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. She was 76. Older sister and fellow ...

CHAPEL of Love and Iko Iko singer Rosa Hawkins has died at 76 years old. The Dixie Cups star passed away on Tuesday at Tampa General Hospital in Florida. Please ...

As a child of the Mississippi gulf coast, the mysterious and colorful time of the year known as Mardi Gras has always captivated me. Catching throws of plastic beads, precious doubloons and moon pies, ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Joan Marie Johnson, one of the founding members of the New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, who had a No. 1 hit in 1964 with "Chapel of Love," has died at a hospice in New Orleans.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Halfway through the first episode of the US television series American Gods, the black hero sits opposite a white man ...

Rosa Lee Hawkins, the youngest founding member of the celebrated New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, died in Tampa, Florida on Tuesday, January 11 of internal bleeding caused by complications from ...

If you've only heard one Mardi Gras song, it's probably "Iko Iko," the hit recorded by the Dixie Cups in 1965. An earlier version (titled "Jock-a-mo") by James "Sugar Boy" Crawford came out in 1953, ...