McKinley Morganfield, better known as Muddy Waters, was an American singer-songwriter and musician. On April 4, 1913, he was born in Mississippi’s Issaquena County.
He was well-known in the blues scene following World War II as a blues vocalist. The “father of modern Chicago blues” is what many referred to him as.
What was Muddy Waters net worth at the time of death?
Muddy Waters’s net worth was $5 million at the time of his death in 1983. He was an American blues singer and composer. That is equivalent to almost $13 million in today’s money. He was primarily regarded as the originator of contemporary Chicago blues.
He received several honours throughout the 1970s, early 1980s, 1990s, and even the 2000s. He was honoured with the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 1992, the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1987, and the Blues Foundation Hall of Fame induction in 1980.
Muddy Waters was inspired by the local blues musicians Son House and Robert Johnson when he was 17 years old. He was raised on the Stovall Plantation near Clarksdale, Mississippi. Alan Lomax captured him in Mississippi in 1941 for the Library of Congress.
