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Apr 5, 2022 · NEW ORLEANS — Chris Owens, the singer, dancer and entertainer whose seven decades as a Bourbon Street performer and club owner made her a New Orleans icon known worldwide, died Tuesday. Her...
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Apr 5, 2022 · In April 2022, the legendary Bourbon Street entertainer Chris Owens died at the age of 89. For more than 60 years she was Bourbon Street’s sta…
Chris Owens (October 5, 1932 – April 5, 2022) was an American performer, club owner and entrepreneur who based her act out of the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States. She was a French Quarter fixture and celebrity from the start of the 1960s through the early 21st century.
- April 5, 2022 (aged 89), New Orleans
- Performer, entrepreneur, philanthropist
- American
- Christine Joetta Shaw, October 5, 1932, Texas
Dec 1, 2022 · the Historic New Orleans Collection. December 1, 2022. When Chris Owens died in April, it felt a little untoward, and somehow reductive, to say she was 89 years old. The Queen of Bourbon Street remained famously mum about her age, and for half a century media coverage of her had deferentially sidestepped it, focusing instead on her enduring ...
Apr 10, 2022 · A horse-drawn funeral hearse leads a second-line for the queen of Bourbon Street Chris Owens at the Garden of Memories Funeral Home and Cemetery in Metairie Sunday, April 10, 2022. The...
Apr 5, 2022 · The Texas native was visiting her sister in New Orleans at age 20 when she fell in love with the city. ... Queen of Bourbon Street Chris Owens invites us to her home.
Apr 5, 2022 · Entertainer Chris Owens, a fixture of Bourbon Street, died Tuesday morning from a heart attack. Owens spent over six decades performing for French Quarter audiences and was known as an icon in the ...
