1st Annual Johnnie Taylor Blues Festival feat. TJ Hooker Taylor

7401 E. 1st Ave ,Denver CO 80230

19 August, 2021

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1st Annual Johnnie Taylor Blues Festival feat. TJ Hooker Taylor IJABA Music Series UNDER 21 WITH PARENT OR LEGAL GUARDIAN TJ Hooker Taylor 1st Annual Johnnie Taylor Blues Festival feat. TJ Hooker Taylor T J Hooker Taylor comes from a musical family. His mother Mary Ann Hooker, and his father the late Great Johnnie Taylor, raised him in the church. At the age of ten, T J and his family joined their first group, The Young Golden Voices. The group performed at all the churches in the Kanas City area. He was sixteen years old; when he went out on his own and started singing with The Grand Jury Band. This band opened for many top acts that came to the city like The Bar-Kays, Cameo, and many more. Some of the members of that band went on to become the Low-Key, who signed with top R&B producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. At the age of 21, TJ’s young voice started to change. “I could hear that (Taylor Sound) I never tried to sound like my dad. I did not even like the blues. On TJ’s 25th birthday I was given the chance to open for my dad and get paid” says Hooker-Taylor. That is when the blues hit me. Unapologetically proud of his lineage, Hooker-Taylor has released CDs independently with that Johnnie Taylor sound albeit with mostly new, original songs. His most recent, “The Total Package”, featured the hit song “Player Haters”. In 2015, Taylor began performing with the local Gospel group The KC Clouds. CDS Records signed TJ Hooker-Taylor and released two albums 2009 “Your Babies Need A Daddy” and 2012 “Taylorized”. TJ Hooker Taylor