Trailblazing Platters Singer Zola Taylor Dies (Wizbang Pop!)

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Trailblazing Platters Singer Zola Taylor Dies

Posted by Tracey Coyle
Published: May 2, 2007 - 1:11 PM

Zola Taylor, who broke gender barriers in the 1950s as a member of The Platters , harmonizing with her male colleagues on hits like "The Great Pretender," has died, her nephew said Tuesday. She was 69.

Taylor, who later gained attention of a different sort as one of three women who claimed to be pop idol Frankie Lymon's widow, died Monday, said her nephew Alfie Robinson. She had been bedridden following several strokes and died at Parkview Community Hospital in Riverside County from complications of pneumonia, he said.

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