Denise LaSalle

Denise LaSalle was born Ora Denise Allen in Leflore County, and her family moved to Belzoni when she was seven and to Chicago when she was thirteen. In Chicago she took the stage name LaSalle and met Billy "the Kid" Emerson, who recorded her song "A Love Reputation" in 1967. With husband Bill Jones she founded Crajon Productions, whose labels included Goldstar and Parka. Signed to Westbound, she had a string of hits from 1970 to 1976, then moved toward blues in the late 1970s and became known as the Queen of Soul Blues.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• B.B. King Museum and Delta Interpretive Center — 21 mi
  A museum built around the brick cotton gin in Indianola where B.B. King worked in the 1940s, with his grave in a memorial garden on the grounds.
• Triangle Cultural Center — 23 mi
  A 1904 school on Main Street in Yazoo City that survived the great fire of that May and now holds the county's historical museum, in a town rebuilt in brick on the same lots.

More markers nearby

• Turner's Drug Store — steps away
• Pinetop Perkins — 1.6 mi
• Jaketown Site — 4.2 mi
• Hank Cochran — 7.8 mi