Singer and actress Shonka Dukureh, who starred as blues singer Big Mama Thornton in the film Elvis, has been found dead at her home in Nashville, Tennessee.
The 44-year-old was found unresponsive by one of her two young children who she lived in an apartment with, the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department said in a statement.
No foul play is suspected and an autopsy is yet to be carried out to establish the cause of death, police added.
Nashville Mayor John Cooper tweeted his condolences to Dukureh's family, saying that she had graduated from Fisk University in the city that she had called home for many years.
The actor, who shared the stage at Coachella this year with Doja Cat, graduated with a bachelor's degree in theatre.
She went on to achieve a master's degree in education at Trevecca Nazarene University, WPLN-FM reported....
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