Muddy Water met his wife Marva Jean Brooks at the Days Inn on Newberry Street in Gainesville, Florida, circa 1977.
Marva Jean Brooks was working as a housekeeper at the hotel where Muddy Waters was staying when he had a show in Gainesville, their met was love at a first sight, and at the time she was just 19 years old.
Who is Muddy Waters wife Marva Jean Brooks?
Muddy Waters was an American singer, composer, and pianist who attained prominence after he became a key participant in the postwar blues movement and was usually called, the “Father of Modern Chicago Blues”
He was born on April 4th, 1913, and grew up on Stovall Plantation outside Clarksdale, Mississippi at the age of 17 he started emulating blues legends, Son House and Robert Johnson on the guitar and harmonica.
In 1941, Alan Lomax recorded him in Mississippi for the Library of Congress and in 1943 he relocated to Chicago to pursue her career as a full-time professional musician.
