A Gander On His Net Worth: How Rich Is Late Recording Artist And Performer James Brown?

By Staff Reporter

Sep 12, 2014 01:37 PM EDT

Popularly known as "The Godfather of Soul", the late recording artist and performer has an estimated net worth of approximately $100 million.

James Joseph Brown Jr. or simply known as James Brown was an American recording artist and musician. He was considered as one of the founding fathers of funk music and a major figure of the 20^th century popular music and dance.

In a career that spanned six decades, James Brown influenced the development of several music genres. Through his contributions, his career reached its stratospheric peak as well as his increasing net worth. He passed away in December 25, 2006 at the age of 73 due to congestive heart failure.

With James Brown's estimated net worth of $100 million, he was given many names in the music industry. Among his mighty titles were: "Soul Brother Number One," "the Godfather of Soul," "the Hardest Working Man in Show Business" and "Mr. Dynamite". He earned these titles more than any other performers.

In the span of his career, James Brown had recorded 16 chart-topping singles on the Billboard R & B charts. He also holds the record as the artist to have charted the most singles on the Billboard Hot 100 which do not reach number one on the chart. Along his achievements, his career and net worth upsurge.

James Brown was honored by several institutions including inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. He was ranked seventh on the music magazine Rolling Stone's 100 greatest artists of all time lists.

Other singers were more popular, others were equally experienced but only few African-American musicians were so significant over the course of popular music. No other performer, pop or otherwise can put on a more thrilling and nerve-wracking stage show other James Brown. His presentations were prodigies of athletic fortitudes and instantaneous timing. Through the ardent fury of his vocals and the intricate polyrhythms of his beats, James Brown was a vital icon in two revolutions in black American music.

Along with James Brown's successes, his financial and drug problems ultimately got him a controversial prison sentence. However, his musical influences and contributions were greatly esteemed. James Brown's rags-to-riches-to-rags story has gallant and heartbreaking scopes of epic significance.

Before his death in 2006, James Brown began a global tour dubbed as the Seven Decades of funk World Tour. His innumerable musical contributions to the development of the different music genres will always be honored and reminisced as well as the enthralling success of his career and net worth of over $100 million.