Robert Leroy Johnson was born on May 8, 1911, in Hazlehurst, Mississippi, United States. He was an American blues musician and songwriter and landmark his recordings in 1936 and 1937 display a combination of singing, guitar skills, and songwriting talent that has influenced later generations of musicians.
Robert Johnson died on August 16, 1938, at the age of 27, near Greenwood, Mississippi, of unknown causes. Johnson’s death was not reported publicly and almost 30 years later, Gayle Dean Wardlow, a Mississippi-based musicologist researching Johnson’s life, found Johnson’s death certificate, which listed only the date and location.
What happened to Robert Johnson wife?
Robert Johnson had had it tough dealing with his love life and marriages, he was only married twice but had lost them all to death.
He first married Virginia Travis in February 1929 and had spent 16 years together in marriage. Virginia died in childbirth shortly after.
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After the death of his first wife, Robert married Caletta Craft in May 1931, and in 1932, the couple settled for a while in Clarksdale, Mississippi, in the Delta, but Johnson soon left for a career as a “walking” or itinerant musician, and Caletta died in early 1933.
