Rosa Lee Hawkins, a member of New Orleans girl group The Dixie Cups, has died at age 76.
. In addition to soundtracking countless weddings, the Dixie Cups classic has been covered by Elton John and Bette Midler, and appeared in movies from“When it was released, it went zoom,” Barbara Ann Hawkins, Rosa’s sister and a member of the group,Rosa Hawkins grew up singing in church, then formed the Meltones with her older sister Barbara and their cousin Joan Marie Johnson, who died in 2016.
After “Chapel of Love,” the Dixie Cups recorded many other tracks, including “People Say” and a version of the Mardi Gras standard “Iko Iko.” Johnson left the group in 1966, and one of her replacements, family friend Athelgra Neville, whose siblings are the Neville Brothers, has toured with the Hawkins sisters in the Dixie Cups for decades. Their most recent album,The group was doing shows in Las Vegas when Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans, and they lost many of their belongings in the flood.
“The most important thing to Rosa, after her son and me and her grandchildren and nieces and nephews, was singing,” Barbara Hawkins told the . “She was very happy when she was onstage. Her whole attitude and demeanor were different because she was doing something she loved.”
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