{"id":1566149,"date":"2022-07-22T10:19:05","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:19:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566149"},"modified":"2022-07-22T10:19:13","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T14:19:13","slug":"elvis-actress-found-dead-in-nashville-apartment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/elvis-actress-found-dead-in-nashville-apartment\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elvis\u2019 Actress Found Dead In Nashville Apartment"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">14<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Felvis-actress-found-dead-in-nashville-apartment%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1566149&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/celebrities\">Actress<\/a> and singer Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thorton in Baz Luhrmann\u2019s new \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/movies\">Elvis<\/a>\u201d biopic, was found dead in her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/nashville\">Nashville<\/a> apartment Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The Metro Nashville Police Department shared an update via Twitter. \u201cNo foul play is evident in today\u2019s death of actress Shonka Dukureh, 44, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in this year\u2019s Elvis movie. Dukureh, a Fisk Univ graduate, was found dead in the bedroom of her Kothe Way apt that she shared with her 2 young children,\u201d the update <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MNPDNashville\/status\/1550214892719783936\">confirmed<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>No cause of death has been determined yet.<\/p>\n<p>Dukureh was found unresponsive in her bed by one of her children, who then alerted a neighbor, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/entertainment\/elvis-actress-shonka-dukureh-dead-nashville\">Fox News<\/a>. The neighbor called 911 shortly before 9:30 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Dukureh had a theater degree from Fisk and graduated from Trevecca Nazarene with an education degree, the publication reported. She was a staple of Nashville churches, lending her singing voice to the congregations since she was a young girl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>She was a self-taught singer, opening for Jamie Liddell and the Royal Pharaohs, and worked with artists including Nick Cave, Mike Farris, Pete Rock, and Smoke Dza, according <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/tv-movies\/tv-movie-news\/shonka-dukureh-obituary-1386713\/\">Rolling Stone<\/a>. The singer had recently performed with Doja Cat in Coachella.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cElvis\u201d actress had also worked as a second-grade teacher and devoted time to helping inner-city children through after school programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy deepest condolences to the family of Shonka Dukureh. Shonka graduated from @Fisk1866 and called Nashville home for many years,\u201d Nashville Mayor John Cooper (D) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JohnCooper4Nash\/status\/1550225355960623106\">tweeted<\/a>. \u201cHer powerful voice and artistry will live on through her music, and we honor her memory on this sad day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fans were devastated by the news, sharing their condolences on social media and recalling Dukureh\u2019s powerful rendition of the Elvis Presley classic \u201cHound Dog\u201d in the film.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA special light went out today and all of the Elvis movie family are heartbroken by the loss of Shonka Dukureh,\u201d Luhrmann wrote on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CgTPWs2vy4c\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link\">Instagram<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cFrom the moment she came into our world, Shonka brought joy, spirit and of course her voice and her music. Whenever she was on set, on stage or even just in the room, everyone always felt uplifted. Shonka was just starting to find a larger audience for her tremendous talent, and I got to see her uplift whole crowds of people at Coachella and beyond.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA favorite word of Shonka\u2019s, in daily use, was \u2018blessings,\u2019 and I, along with the entire Elvis cast, crew and musical collaborators, feel truly blessed to have had time with her,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress and singer Shonka Dukureh, who played Big Mama Thorton in Baz Luhrmann\u2019s new \u201cElvis\u201d biopic, was found dead in her Nashville apartment Thursday. The Metro Nashville Police Department shared an update via Twitter. \u201cNo foul play is evident in today\u2019s death of actress Shonka Dukureh, 44, who portrayed Big Mama Thornton in this year\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1575027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1566149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1566149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1566149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1575027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1566149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1566149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1566149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}