Willie Nelson: Short Biography, Net Worth & Career Highlights

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Texas of English, Irish and Cherokee ancestry, and as Willie Nelson, is known worldwide as one of the main figures in country music.
So just how rich is musician Willie Nelson? Being active in his career as an author, actor, singer, composer, and producer for over 50 years, celebrity dot money estimates that Willie Nelson has a net worth of over 30 million dollars. accumulated during a career which began six decades ago.
Willie Nelson’s parents left him and his sister to be raised by his grandparents, who encouraged Willie in music, such that he started his career by writing his first song when he was just seven years old, and was involved as a leading singer and guitar player in several bands from about the age of 10, through his teens and 20s, also working as a disc jockey in Texas radio stations. In fact, Willie never graduated from college, as he dropped-out to focus on his music career.
Nelson’s net worth started growing significantly when the singer signed with D Records in 1958. However, it’s possible to say that William found his real self in 1973, when he signed with Atlantic Records and started focusing on outlaw country – in the 1960s Willie contributed to the development of this subgenre of country music, as an off-shoot to the rather conservative Nashville sound.
Willie Nelson as a country music representative purports the successful number of albums released: Willie has enlarged his net worth with income from 68 studio albums, 37 compilation albums, 10 live albums and two soundtracks. His first studio album was named “And Then I Wrote” in 1962, and other studio albums to mention over the years are such as “Good Times” (1969), “Read Headed Stranger” (1975), “The Troublemaker” (1976), “Sings Kristofferson” (1979), and “City of New Orleans” (1984). His newest studio album is “Band of Brothers” released in 2014.
Willie Nelson’s net worth also grew because of his ability as an author. He has published seven books including his autobiography called simply “Willie: An Autobiography”, in1988. “The Facts of Life and Other Dirty Jokes”, published in 2002, was his set of recollections from his experiences in the music industry, and he’s also published “The Tao of Willie: A Guide to the Happiness in Your Heart” (2006), and “A Tale Out of Luck” (2008), a first Nelson fictional book. “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die: Musings From the Road” published in 2012 is a new autobiography written by Willie. All these publications have sold well, and thus increased Willie’s net worth.
Nelson’s net worth has been augmented with his performances in movies, too. Nelson first appeared in “The Electric Horseman” (1979), an adventure–romance film directed by Sydney Pollack. Following it, Willie has shown-up in such movies as “Barbarosa” (1982), “Once Upon a Texas Train” (1988), “Wag the Dog” (1997), “The Big Bounce” (2004), and “Swing Vote” (2008). His most recent film projects include “Get a Job” (2011), “When Angels Sing” (2011), “Shoot out of Luck” (2011), and “The Dry Gulch Kid” (2011), actually just a few from around 30 movies appearances.
In his personal life, Willie Nelson has married four times and fathered seven children; firstly to Martha Matthews from 1952 -1962, and the couple have two living children: their third died by suicide in 1991. Nelson was next married to Shirley Collie from ’63 to ‘71, then Connie Koepke ‘71to ’88, and they had two daughters. Willie married fourthly Annie D’Angelo in 1991, and they have two sons - they now split their lives between Hawaii and Texas.