Patti LaBelle

 Patti LaBelle, a singer and actress as well as a businesswoman with a net worth in excess of $60 million, is Patti LaBelle. Patti LaBelle was first famous for her group, Patti LaBelle & the Blue Belles. Her fame was later an enormous one as an actor in movies and TV shows as well as as a solo artist. She is the daughter of Bertha and Henry Holte's fourth child. Her father worked for a railroad and a club performer as well as her mother a domestic assistant. Her parents divorced when she was 12 years old.LaBelle began singing at the age of ten as she joined the church choir at Beulah Baptist Church; she made her debut solo performance with the choir only two years later. At the age of sixteen and a student at John Bartram High School she was the winner of the school's talent contest. After winning, in 1960, she formed a singing group with her classmates called the Ordettes. The group quickly became a well-known local event and was invited to audition for Harold Robinson, a local record label owner. Robinson signed the group, and they were able to record under the Blue Belles name. Eventually,