Jean Knight, the New Orleans soul singer who topped the R&B chart in 1971 together with her Stax Information single “Mr. Huge Stuff,” has died. Knight’s household confirmed the information in a press release. She was 80.
Knight’s recording profession started within the Sixties with a collection of singles on the labels Tribe and Jetstream, together with a 1965 recording of Jackie Wilson’s “Cease Doggin’ Me Round.” Her huge breakthrough, “Mr. Huge Stuff,” was one of many best-selling singles in Stax’s storied historical past.
Whereas she continued to launch singles all through the ’70s, her subsequent hit was a 1985 recording of the zydeco customary “My Toot Toot.” She was inducted into the Louisiana Music Corridor of Fame in 2007. Knight served on the Louisiana Music Fee and, based on her household’s assertion, she “cherished cooking scrumptious Creole dishes for household and associates.”