Elvis Review: the day the king of rock became the king of the pasodoble
Singer-actress
Shonka Dukureh
, who played
Big Mama Thornton
in this year's movie
Elvis
, was found dead
in her apartment bedroom
, Nashville Police said in a statement
with no apparent signs of violence.
The 44-year-old actress was
found unconscious by one of her two young children
with whom she lived in her Kothe Way apartment.
The boy ran to ask for help from a neighbor who, in turn, called the Emergency Department without being able to do anything to save his life.
The results of the
autopsy
that will be carried out to determine the causes of Shonka Dukureh's death are awaited.
Shonka Dukureh's role as
Thornton
, an R&B singer who was the first artist to record the song
Hound Dog,
later made famous by Elvis Presley, was her first major movie appearance, CNN reports.
He appears on the Elvis
soundtrack
and in the music video for the song
Vegas
by Doja Cat, also from the film's soundtrack.
Additionally, Shonka Dukureh performed with Doja Cat during the Coachella music festival in April.
"Gratitude is where I live because my great-grandmother, my grandmother, my mom, my family modeled and instilled in me. It is not a stance of doing less than or scraping the crumbs, but it recognizes that good things are not a guarantee and when we find them, gratitude, gratitude is the least we can express," he said in an interview he shared on his Instagram account.
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