Patti Labelle, who is a singer, actress, songwriter and an entrepreneur was born in 194,  May 24. She’s an African-American and also a very popular singer. The most popular genres in which she used to sing or funk, disco, pop, dance, jazz and soul as well. The bird’s name of Patti Labelle is Patricia Louise Holte. She belongs to the African American singing group because of which she changed her name during 1960s.

Early life

Patti Labelle was born in East week section of south-west Philadelphia. The name of her mother was Bertha Holte and Henry.She had two siblings named Thomas Hogan Jr and Vivian Hogan, Barbara and Jacqueline.Her family did not had any business of their own but her father worked as a worker at some place and also worked in the club. Her mother was just a housewife and does all the domestic work of the home. It may seem that she enjoyed her childhood but this is not the scenario.

Later on when she wrote her memories in “don’t block the blessing”  that her childhood was not so good. After her mother and father got divorced, she was also sexually abused by a friend of their family.She’s an amazing singer and she is also very genuine and polite. She never used to be affected by what people say about her but she prefer keeping her opinion in any cases. She completed her schooling from John Bolton high school and it was the place where she won a talent competition when she was 16.

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Awards and honours

Despite being a very amazing singer, Patti labelle did not go to win a lot of awards during and after her career as a singer. She completed to honorary doctorate which were, Berklee College of music in 1996 and Temple University in 2010. She was also nominated for two Emmy awards which were outstanding individual performance in a variety of music program during 1985 and 1986 but unfortunately she did not won any of them.

When it comes to Grammy, she was a conqueror. She won three Grammy awards in the category of Best female R&B vocal performance, Best traditional R&B performance, Grammy Hall of fame.Apart from the Grammy awards, she was also nominated for image awards and she won each and every time she was nominated. Some of her lifetime award is your soul train music awards in 1996, Song Writer’s Hall of fame in 2003, BET awards in 2011 and many more.

Personal life

She was married to Armstead Edwards in 1969and Patti Labelle also became the manager in the late 1990s. It was the year 1990 when they both separated and the separation was announced in 2000.She is 60 years old now and she also have a son.Her son is also her manager now who was born in 1973.

Net worth

Patti Labelle who is a singer as well as a businesswoman has got a net worth of $60 million. She is not only a singer but also an actress who have worked in many television shows as well as films.