George Clinton

George Clinton Net Worth

George Clinton net worth: George Clinton is an American R&B singer/songwriter and music producer who has a net worth of $1.8 million dollars. Born July 22, 1941 in Kannapolis, North Carolina, George Clinton began his career in a barber shop in Newark, New Jersey when he created a doo-wop group called The Parliaments (later known as Funkadelic and later yet known as P-Funk All-Stars). During the '60s he was a staff songwriter for Motown. Clinton and his band(s) released more than 40 R&B hit singles and three platinum albums during the '70s. Though Clinton experienced some success with his first solo album, Computer Games (1982), he also experienced a decline in popularity in the '80s. In the '90s, however, through the popularity of such rappers as Snoop Dogg and Tupac Shakur, who began sampling his work, Clinton's work re-emerged. Clinton was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1997 with fifteen other members of Parliament-Funkadelic. The band was also named the 56th Greatest Rock n' Roll Artists of All Time by Rolling Stone. Clinton was also awarded an honorary doctorate from Berklee College of Music. He continues to tour and even collaborated with Sly Stone (2010) on a single called The Naz, a track which tells the story of Jesus Christ. Clinton married Stephanie Lynn in 1990.