'She can't be forgotten': Soul singer Sharon Jones, dead at 60

Soul singer Sharon Jones died last Friday, November 18.

The Daptone Records star, best known for performing with the Dap-Kings (who also famously backed up Amy Winehouse), had been battling pancreatic cancer since 2013 and suffered a stroke earlier this month while watching the U.S. presidential election returns. 

"She told the people that were there that Trump gave her the stroke," The Dap-Kings' Gabriel Roth told the L.A. Times in an interview published yesterday. 

In her last days in the hospital, all the members of The Dap-Kings were there in addition to family, friends and Daptone Records co-founder Neal Sugarman.

"She couldn't talk but she was humming a lot of the gospel songs she grew up with," Sugarman tells host Tom Power this morning. When asked of Jones' musical career, Sugarman added, "It never felt like she wasn't giving 110 per cent [...] She can't be forgotten."

Musician Lee Fields also spoke to q today. He called Jones "indescribable," and likens her to a female James Brown. "I don't think there will be another Sharon."