R&B Legend Missing After Katrina
 

R&B legend Fats Domino of "Blueberry Hill" fame has been reported missing. He told his agent on Sunday that he planned to remain at his New Orleans home with his wife and daughter and has not been heard from since. :(

Diane

And sadly so is Allen Toussaint who wrote "lady Marmalade" and arranged quite a few of Paul Simon's songs. :|

This is aweful!! I hope they are ok......along with the many others that are missing!!
Chloe x

Allan Toussaint has been found in the Superdome.

Word is filtering through that Fats Domino was rescued. - The source is quite good but am still looking for confirmation!

Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino has been rescued from the New Orleans disaster, according to his daughter.

The 77-year-old musician, best known for his boogie-woogie piano style and such hits as Ain't That a Shame, had been reported missing.

Domino, whose real name is Antoine, spoke to his manager twice on Sunday and told him he would "ride out the storm".

Nobody had heard from him since - but now daughter Karen Domino White said she has seen a photo of her father taken by the local New Orleans newspaper.

The pic showed the music legend being helped off a boat by rescuers.

Karen has told a US news agency: "We're very relieved", although she does not know her father's current whereabouts.


That's the latest from ITN.

ames xx

Fats Domino plucked from New Orleans flood-reports
Friday September 2, 06:23 AM

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Rock 'n' roll pioneer Fats Domino has been rescued from the floodwaters of his New Orleans hometown, allaying fears that he may have perished in the grim aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, news reports said on Thursday.

The 77-year-old musician, who had told friends that he planned to ride out the storm, was rescued Monday night, according to the Associated Press and CNN.

AP quoted his daughter, Karen Domino White, who lives in New Jersey and identified her father from a newspaper photograph showing a man being helped out of a boat by authorities.

White told AP that she had been unable to speak to Domino and had no information on his wife, Rosemary, or any other family members in New Orleans.

Domino is beloved for his boogie-woogie piano style and such hits as "Ain't That a Shame," "Walking to New Orleans" and "Blueberry Hill."

Domino's manager Al Embry told Reuters he spoke with Domino by telephone twice on Sunday, trying to persuade the singer to evacuate, but the musician insisted he was "going to try to ride out" the storm at home with his wife and his youngest daughter.

Embry, who is based in Nashville, Tennessee, said friend and onetime country music star Mickey Gilley, a cousin of Jerry Lee Lewis, got on the phone with him at one point on Sunday and "tried to beg (Domino) to leave."

Domino lives in New Orleans' 9th Ward, which Embry said was believed to be underwater.

The Fox News.com Web site reported that another Rock and Roll Hall of Fame singer-songwriter from New Orleans, Allen Toussaint, 67, was among more than 20,000 refugees at the New Orleans Superdome.