NEW YORK -- Fats Domino was missing today, days after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, said his longtime agent, Al Embry.
Embry told The Associated Press that he hadn't been able to contact Domino since talking to him Sunday evening by phone.
The 77-year-old R&B legend, whose real name is Antoine Domino, told Embry that he planned to stay at his New Orleans house with his wife, Rosemary, and their daughter.
"I hope somebody turns him up, but as of right now, we haven't got anybody that knows where he's at," said Embry, who has worked with Domino for 28 years. "I would think he might be safe because somebody said he was on top of the balcony."
Now it appears that one of my own family members is also missing and unaccounted for.
Please contact me if you have any information regarding the whereabouts of Junior Antwine Short, a black youth between 16-17 years old, 5'5" tall, the son of my cousin, Pamela. He has not been heard from since Sunday evening despite being given a court-levied 8 p.m. curfew due to previous troubles with the law. E-mail me at gab1954@gmail.com.