Born
Ida Lee Lewis to a musical family of rice farmers in
Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States, Her family moved to
Beaumont, Texas, when she was ten and eight years later moved to
San Francisco, California. A year after her first appearance on stage Queen Ida and the Bon Temps Band signed with the record label GNP/Crescendo, Rapone often wrote and produced for her and formed the Bon Temps Zydeco Band, which later became Queen Ida's backup group. A revised second edition of the cookbook was published in 1995. Queen Ida continued to perform live through the 2000s, and though she did not release any albums during this period, she has joined her son Myrick and his band onstage. She officially retired from playing in 2010 and lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, where she enjoys cooking for her friends and family. One of her accordions is among the artifacts exhibited at the
National Museum of African American Music in
Nashville, Tennessee, which opened in January 2021. ==Selected discography==