Tomiko Dixon Keeping Alive Grandfather Willie Dixon�s Legacy
Tomiko Dixon, blues singer and granddaughter of late blues great Willie Dixon with R&B legends Marshall Thompson (left) and Gene Chandler. | James Foster/For the Sun-Times It was a day after Marie Dixon , widow of blues great Willie Dixon, died, and several legends were gathered in a downtown hotel in support of a granddaughter, Tomiko Dixon. There was R&B legend Gene �Duke of Earl� Chandler, who is Tomiko Dixon�s amore, and her godfather, Marshall Thompson, founder of the legendary Chi-Lites, credited with birthing a generation of R&B vocal groups. There was her godmother, longtime artist developer Helen Wooten, who�s worked with likes of R. Kelly, Da Brat and Darnell Jones; her harmonica player, Jeff Stone, whose Zack Harmon Band was the rage in the mid-2000s after winning the International Blues Challenge, and her lawyer, Jay B. Ross, who represented her grandfather as well as Muddy Waters and likely more blues acts than any other entertainment attorney. Wh...