Leigh 'Little Queenie' Harris, the pixie powerhouse at the center of New Orleans' 1970s-80s music landscape is gravely ill. Harris' husband Rick Ledbetter said that the 64-year-old singer is suffering ...

Leigh “Little Queenie” Harris is full of fire and spirit from the first scratchy, belted out “Hey!” on Li’l Queenie & The Percolators’ “Live at Tipitina’s 1982.” There’s a little bit of tape hiss, but ...

Musicians are gathering in New Orleans this week for what is fast becoming an annual tribute to a queen. Leigh “Little Queenie” Harris, of Lil Queenie and the Percolators, lost her battle with cancer ...

Leigh ‘Little Queenie’ Harris was one of New Orleans’ boldest, most arresting singers since her days fronting Little Queenie & the Percolators in the mid 70’s and 80’s. Inducted into Louisiana’s Music ...

Harris battled cancer for three years and died while in hospice care in North Carolina, where she relocated after Hurricane Katrina. “Your words and outreach are as beautiful as her voice was. Thank ...

When Debbie Davis moved to New Orleans in 1997, fellow vocalist Leigh “Little Queenie” Harris served as her sisterly guide to the local music community. “Sitting at the bar at Leigh Harris gigs, I met ...

Guardian. Second mother. Friend. Total badass. The queen. These are the words used tonight to describe singer and songwriter Leigh Harris, who since the 1970s has been better known in New Orleans’ ...

After a long battle with cancer, Leigh “Little Queenie” Harris, the soulful singer of Li’l Queenie and the Percolators, died on Saturday, September 21 at the age of 65. Battling the disease since her ...