“Everybody started calling my music rock ‘n’ roll, but it wasn’t anything but the same rhythm and blues I’d been playing down in New Orleans.”—Fats Domino Growing up as the youngest of eight children ...

NEW ORLEANS — Artwork dedicated to the New Orleans music icon, Fats Domino was unveiled in the 9th Ward. His family joined the artist who created the piece to celebrate with a ribbon cutting. At the ...

To some, the white Steinway grand piano that sat on a stage in the Old U.S. Mint on Thursday afternoon might be just another piano. For the Louisiana State Museum and the family of Fats Domino it is a ...

Fats Domino did not know he was making a record at Tipitina’s on May 19, 2007. That night, the rock ‘n’ roll founding father was simply focused on getting through – or out of – what turned out to be ...

When a friend of Fats Domino‘s invited filmmaker Joe Lauro to hang out at Domino’s New Orleans house in the early 2000s, he knew he had to make a film about the rock & roll architect. More than a ...

An early pioneer of rock and roll, pianist, singer, and songwriter Fats Domino is getting a street named in his honor, where he lived most of his life—the Lower Ninth Ward (Lower 9) of New Orleans. A ...