Chris LeDoux

The singer born in Biloxi in 1948 was also a bronze sculptor, and two of his pieces won awards in his lifetime. In August 2000 he was diagnosed with primary sclerosing cholangitis and needed a liver transplant; Garth Brooks offered part of his own liver, which proved incompatible, and another donor was found for the operation on October 7. Bile duct cancer was found in 2004, and he died on March 9, 2005. The ProRodeo Hall of Fame inducted him twice, as a rider and for his music, and Cheyenne raised his statue in 2021.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ohr-O'Keefe Museum of Art — 0.8 mi
  Frank Gehry's pavilions on the Biloxi waterfront, built around the pottery of George Ohr, the self-styled Mad Potter, and the rebuilt Pleasant Reed House.
• Biloxi Beach Wade-In Marker — 0.9 mi
  The beachfront parking lot beside the Biloxi Lighthouse where state markers recall the 1959 and 1960 wade-ins that opened Mississippi's public beaches to Black residents.
• Biloxi Lighthouse — 0.9 mi
  A cast-iron tower lit in 1848 on the Biloxi beachfront, kept by women for most of its first century and still in service after Camille and Katrina.
• Maritime & Seafood Industry Museum — 1.6 mi
  A Point Cadet museum on Biloxi's oyster, shrimp and schooner past, from the packing houses and the shrimpers' unions to the Vietnamese families who rebuilt the industry.

More markers nearby

• Biloxi — steps away
• The Magnolia Hotel — 0.2 mi
• Church of the Redeemer — 0.2 mi
• Vance-Gillis House — 0.3 mi