LaSalle, Denise
(*1939)> SINGER
LaSalle, Denise Denise Allen or Denise Craig, 16 July 1939; LeFlore County, MS Southern-style soul singer. LaSalle grew up listening to country and western music and the blues, and at the age of thirteen moved to Chicago. Her first recorded success, albeit local, was on Billy “The Kid” Emerson’s Tarpon label, “A Love Reputation” (1967), using the stage name of Denise LaSalle. Subsequently she married Bill Jones and the couple formed their own record company (with the Goldstar, Parka, and Crajon…