Irma Thomas (born February 18, 1941) is an American singer from New Orleans. She is known as the “Soul Queen of New Orleans”. She was the daughter of Percy Lee, a steel chipper, and Vader Lee, who worked as a maid. As a teenager, she sang with a Baptist church choir.
What Is Irma Thomas’s Net Worth?
Irma Thomas is a famous Soul Singer, born on February 18, 1941, in the United States. As of December 2022, Irma Thomas’s net worth is $5 Million. She has been featured on the HBO drama series Treme.
Thomas is a contemporary of Aretha Franklin and Etta James, but never experienced their level of commercial success. In 2007, she won the Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Blues Album for After the Rain, her first Grammy in a career spanning over 50 years.
Irma and her husband, Emile Jackson, still live in the brick ranch-style home in new Orleans east they occupied before, and rebuilt after, hurricane Katrina, at the outset of the coronavirus pandemic in march, Thomas performed one song at a wedding.