JACKSON, Miss — Editor's Note: Video above is from May 2021.
Mississippi's capital is renaming one of its major streets for a Grammy-winning blues singer who lives in the city.
The Jackson City Council voted Tuesday to rename Ellis Avenue to Bobby Rush Boulevard.
The north-south corridor provides a direct route from Interstate 20 to the Jackson Zoo.
The name change takes effect in a month.
Rush has won two Grammy Awards for best traditional blues album — one in 2016 and one in 2020.
Rush is a Louisiana native and lived in Arkansas and Chicago before moving to Jackson in the 1980s.
A Mississippi Blues Trail marker says Rush is known for a "folk funk" style.