This websitewill try to give you a lot of information about this great New Orleans performer but we realize that it is impossible to be 100% complete or correct. If you miss important items, please contact us. We regret that on this website is not possible to write an e-mail directly to Fats. |
This is the planand it is very simple. For this you have to take a Fats recording, and if you don’t have one, but that’s hardly to believe, buy one, play it, enjoy both listening to the music and reading this website, and forget your troubles for a while (crisis, what crisis?), because that’s one of the strengths of the music made by New Orleans artists and especially by Fats Domino. |
This happenedon November 5, 2008The PBS documentary The PBS documentary “Fats Domino:Walking Back To New Orleans” went into premiere at Tipitina’s in New Orleans on November 5, 2008 in the presence of Fats, who also received a replacement at that occasion of his Lifetime Achievement Grammy. The documentary, which contains 30 minutes of his concert filmed in May 2007 at Tipitina’s, features also interviews with firends and fellow musicians like Dr.John, Irma Thomas, Robert Plant, Randy Newman and Allen Toussaint. This one hour documentary will be aired the next few years on public broadcasting stations, starting on November 16, 2008. |
This was his 80th birthdayon February 26, 2008Fats Domino, who’s been less reclusive in the years following Hurricane Katrina, appeared at the 80th birthday party staged in his honor at Tipitina’s Saturday night. The singer-pianist accepted proclamations sent from Mayor Ray Nagin and Governor Bobby Jindal, waved to the sold-out crowd and posed for photos with his latest honors. |
This happened in 2007In September 2007 Fats was inducted into the Lousiana Music Hall Of Fame. On May 19, 2007, Fats performed for the first time at Tipitina’s in New Orleans after the flood . There he played 5 songs. On January 12, 2007 Fats received the Offbeat Lifetime Achievement Award
in the House Of Blues in New Orleans. Mayor Ray Nagin announced this day as ‘Fats Domino Day In New Orleans’, after that there was a musical tribute introduced by Cosimo Matassa. |
This is the long awaitedbiography of Fats Domino, published in 2006. It is called “Blue Monday – Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn Of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, written by Rick Coleman. The publisher is Da Capo Press , ISBN no. 13 978-0-306-81491-4. $ 26.95. 364 pages and lots of photos. We can tell you, it is fantastic! If you are a fan of New Orleans music, then you have to buy it. Boeken over Fats Domino op Bol.com |
These are some awards Fats has received numerous awards, and one of the important ons was becoming a member of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame in 1986. He also is a member the Songwriters’ Hall of Fame since 1998. |