Teddy Pendergrass & The Transsexual Tenika Watson

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Teddy Pendergrass & The Transsexual Tenika Watson
Your Tango
by Claire Daniel
14 January, 2010


http://www.yourtango.com/201052752/teddy-pendergrass-transsexual-tenika-watson


R&B singer and sexual icon Teddy Pendergrass has died of colon cancer at 59. A consummate ladies' man, he was known for belting out such hits as If You Don't Know Me By Now  and Love TKO in sold-out panty-throwing 'women only' concerts. Read more at PopEater: R&B Star Teddy Pendergrass Dead at Age 59

With his death, old rumors surrounding the tragic car crash that left him paralyzed from the chest down have been injected with new life.

Chief among them that he was not alone in the car that night. Riding along was "casual acquaintance" Tenika Watson, a 31-year-old transsexual model, nightclub singer and rumored prostitute. And that she was to blame for his injuries.