Solomon Burke Net Worth 2026: Money, Salary, Bio | CelebsMoney
Solomon Burke‘s source of wealth comes from being a r&b singer. How much money is Solomon Burke worth at the age of 86 and what’s his real net worth now?
As of 2026, Solomon Burke’s net worth is under review.
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Solomon Burke (born March 21, 1940) is famous for being r&b singer. He currently resides in Philadelphia. R&B singer who sang “Got to Get You Off My Mind,” “Down in the Valley,” and “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love.”
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Solomon Burke was born in Philadelphia on Thursday, March 21, 1940 (Silent Generation generation). He is 86 years old and is a Aries. Solomon Burke (March 21, 1940 – October 10, 2010) was an American recording artist and vocalist, who shaped the sound of rhythm and blues as one of the founding fathers of soul music in the 1960s and a “key transitional figure in the development of soul music from rhythm and blues. He had a string of hits including “Cry to Me”, “If You Need Me”, “Got to Get You Off My Mind”, “Down in the Valley” and “Everybody Needs Somebody to Love”. Burke was referred to as “King Solomon”, the “King of Rock ‘n’ Soul”, “Bishop of Soul” and the “Muhammad Ali of soul”. Due to his minimal chart success in comparison to other soul music greats such as James Brown, Wilson Pickett and Otis Redding, Burke has been described as the genre’s “most unfairly overlooked singer” of its golden age. Atlantic Records executive Jerry Wexler referred to Burke as “the greatest male soul singer of all time”. He played for Pop John Paul II and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2001.
With his family running their own church, he became a gospel preacher and a host of a gospel radio show by the age of twelve. Solomon Burke is a member of and .
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He influenced a generation of future soul singers, including Isaac Hayes and Barry White .
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