Entertainment

Jerry Lee Lewis Personal Life, Net Worth, & More

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis who was born on the 29th of September in the year 1935 is a vocalist, lyricist, and piano player from the United States. He has been dubbed “rock n’ roll’s 1st excellent wild man” and “another of the twentieth century’s most important pianists.” Lewis, a leading light of rock and roll and punk rock live performances created his very first audio tapes at Sun Records in Memphis in 1956.

“Crazy Arms” managed to sell 300,000 reproductions in the South, although it was Lewis’ 1957 hit “Whole Lotta Shakin’ Goin’ On” that catapulted him to international stardom. He then went on to have major hits like “Great Balls of Fire,” “Breathless,” and “High School Confidential.” His rock and roll work experience, notwithstanding, borne the brunt of his wedding to Myra Gale Brown, his 13-year-old relative.

Upbringing And Early Life

Jerry Lee Lewis was born to his loving parents Mary “Mamie” Herron and Elmo Kidd Lewis Sr in the quaint and beautiful city of Ferriday, Concordia, Parish in the United States of America. His family was extremely destitute, with two meals a day being scarce. He was raised and brought up in Eastern Louisiana.

He was admitted to the Southwest Bible Institute in Waxahachie in Texax by his mother so he could only exclusively sing holy and catholic songs. Lewis’ affiliation with the university ceased the very same night he got the balls to play a rhythm and blues cover version of “My God Is Real” at a congregation meeting. Lewis performed some “worldly” tunes once during a school talent exhibition, according to Pearry Green, then leader of the student population. In the upcoming arvo, the institution’s headmaster summoned Lewis and Green to his headquarters to oust them.

Following that altercation, he came back home and began singing at pubs and bars in and around Ferriday and Natchez, Mississippi, and became a component of the rapidly growing fresh rock ‘ n ’ roll music sound and trimming his very first prototype audio for Cosimo Matassa in New Orleans in 1952.

Personal Life and Marriages

Lewis has been wedded 7 times, which include three bigamous weddings and the other with his minor cousin. All through his marriages, he had a total of six children. He wedded Dorothy Barton, the youngest child of a religious leader, when he was 16 years old. From February 1952 to October 1953, they were wedded for 20 months.

His second marriage, to Jane Mitchum, in September 1953. Lewis asked for a divorce four years afterwards, in October 1957. Jerry Lee Lewis Jr. (1954–1973, he died at the age of 18) and Ronnie Guy Lewis born in 1956 were the pair’s two kids. On December 12, 1957, he wedded 13-year-old Myra Gale Brown, his first cousin once deleted. But nevertheless, because his divorce from Jane Mitchum was not made official before they exchange vows, he tied the knot with Brown again on June 4, 1958.

Conclusion

Brown got a divorce in 1970, citing infidelity and ill-treatment. He married and divorced again with similar incidents seven times. The popular rock and roll superstar has a total net worth of around 10 million US dollars.