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American singer Taylor Swift is currently the wealthiest female musician, with a net worth of US$1.6 billion as of 2024. The following are music artists with a net worth of over $300 million (adjusted for inflation) according to Forbes. The artists are listed based on the nominal figure of their most recently available estimation.
Della Reese (born Delloreese Patricia Early; July 6, 1931 – November 19, 2017) [1] was an American singer, actress, television personality, author and ordained minister. As a singer, she recorded blues, gospel, jazz and pop. Several of her singles made the US Hot 100, including the number two charting song, "Don't You Know?" (1959).
The highest-paid musicians [1] [2] [3] in the world have been reported annually by Forbes since at least 1987. For measurement, the magazine used pretax earnings—before deducting fees for agents, managers or lawyers. [4]
The Gap Band was an American R&B and funk band that rose to fame during the 1970s and 1980s. The band consisted of three brothers: Charlie, Ronnie, and Robert Wilson, along with other members; it was named after streets (Greenwood, Archer, and Pine) [1] [2] in the historic Greenwood neighborhood in the brothers' hometown of Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Ronnie Wells (February 28, 1943 – March 7, 2007) was a jazz singer and educator in the Washington area for more than three decades. She shared the stage with musicians such as Billy Eckstine, Lonnie Liston Smith, Jimmy Witherspoon and Oscar Brown. Wells was founder of the Fish Middleton Jazz Studies Scholarship and co-founded the East Coast ...
Gordon Lee "Tex" Beneke (/ ˈ b ɛ n ə k i / BEN-ə-kee; February 12, 1914 – May 30, 2000 [1]) was an American saxophonist, singer, and bandleader.His career is a history of associations with bandleader Glenn Miller and former musicians and singers who worked with Miller.
His father Ronnie was a milkman and semi-professional footballer; his mother Joyce was a semi-professional jazz singer. [5] [6] During the summer of 1953, aged two, Harley contracted a severe case of polio and the doctors told his father he was going to die. [5] He survived, but spent four years in hospital between the ages of three and 16.
Ronald Wayne Laws (born October 3, 1950) [1] is an American jazz [2] and smooth jazz saxophonist, and singer. He is the younger brother of jazz flutist Hubert Laws , jazz vocalist Eloise Laws and the older brother of Debra Laws .