Researching Lou Killen
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 416 people with the Killen surname? In that year Killen was ranked number 3163 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Lou means "Form of LOUIS. Famous in Battle" and is of German origin.
Records of Lou Killen on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Lou Killen and the Killen Family History
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Some Famous People called Lou Killen
Lou Killen
Louisa Jo Killen (born Louis Killen; 10 January 1934 – 9 August 2013), sometimes known as Lou Killen, was an English folk singer from Gateshead, Tyneside, who also played the English concertina.
Killen formed one of Britain's first folk clubs in 1958 in Newcastle upon Tyne, and became a professional folk singer in 1961. In the 1970s Killen recalled: "When I started Folk Song and Ballad in Newcastle in 1958 there weren't twenty folk clubs in the whole country, and when I left for the States (in 1966) there were maybe three hundred." Recordings of Killen singing some Tyneside songs were included on both The Iron Muse (Topic Records 12T86, 1963) and the revised version on CD (Topic Records TSCD465) issued in 1993. The accompanying book to the Topic Records 70 year anniversary boxed set Three Score and Ten has a dust jacket picture featuring Louis with Frankie Armstrong and the one of the songs featured on both albums of The Iron Muse, The Blackleg Miners is track six of the sixth CD in the set.
Killen emigrated to the United States in 1967 and worked with Pete Seeger before joining The Clancy Brothers. In 1971, the Clancy Brothers brought in the singer who had introduced the English concertina to the music mix, Lou Killen. They recorded two studio albums under the Audio Fidelity label: Save the Land and Show Me the Way. Their next, and final, album for Audio Fidelity was a live album, Live on St. Patrick's Day in 1973, recorded the previous year at the Bushnell Auditorium in Hartford, Connecticut. In the mid 1970s Killen left the Clancys.
A few years before Killen's death, she underwent a gender reassignment to become Louisa Jo.
Source: Lou Killen, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaOther names that sound a bit like Killen
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