Mable John, the renowed female solo artist and first to be signed to Motown (then Tamla) Records, a Stax singer and longtime Ray Charles collaborator, has died at the age of 91.
What was Mable John net worth at time of death? Mable’s career span decades and at the time of death, she had an estimated net worth of $2 million.
Mable died Thursday (August 26) at her home in Los Angeles. “We loved her and she was a kind person,” her nephew Kevin John told the Detroit News.
Born on Nov. 3, 1930, in Bastrop, Louisiana, to Mertis and Lillie Joh, Mable was the eldest of at least nine siblings.
At a very young age, Mable and her parents moved north into Arkansas, where her father got a job in a paper mill near Cullendale, where four of Mable’s brothers (including R&B singer Little Willie John) and two sisters were born.
Mable spent several years as a Raelette, backing many Ray Charles hits.
Her first single with the label was “Your Good Thing (Is About to End).” The song peaked at #6 on the R&B chart, and even managed to cross over onto pop radio, peaking at #95 there.
She released six more singles for the label, none of which captured her first single’s success. After leaving Stax Records in 1968, John rejoined the Raelettes for several years.
She left secular music in 1973, and began managing Christian gospel acts, occasionally returning to the studio as a singer.
She received a Pioneer Award from the Rhythm and Blues Foundation in 1994.