Little Richard’s biography, fact, career, awards, net worth & life story

American singer, songwriter, musician, recording artist, and actor, Wayne Penniman “Little” Richard has an estimated net worth of $40 million. Little Richard began performing while in his teens and had a meteoric rise to stardom in the mid-50s. He is considered to be the first artist to truly fuse rhythm and blues and boogie-woogie into what we now call “rock and roll”, and he has won numerous awards and honors over the course of his sixty-year career. Born Richard Wayne Penniman on December 5, 1932 in Macon, Georgia, United States.