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Little Willy Foster (Willy Foster) was born on 20 April, 1922 in Dublin, Mississippi, United States, is an American Chicago blues musician. Discover Little Willy Foster's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Willy Foster
Occupation Harmonicist, singer, songwriter
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 20 April, 1922
Birthday 20 April
Birthplace Dublin, Mississippi, United States
Date of death November 25, 1987
Died Place Chicago, Illinois
Nationality United States

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1921

He is not to be confused with another blues harmonica player, Willie James Foster (September 19, 1921 or 1922 – May 20, 2001).

1922

Willy Foster (April 20, 1922 – November 25, 1987), known as Little Willy Foster (or Little Willie Foster), was an American Chicago blues harmonicist, singer, and songwriter.

Foster was born in Dublin, Mississippi, to Major Foster and Rosie Brown.

He was raised on a plantation about ten miles south of Clarksdale.

His mother died when he was aged five, and he was raised by his father, who was a local musician.

Willy worked the fields from an early age and had little formal education.

His father taught him to play the family's piano, and Willy later taught himself to master both the guitar and the harmonica.

1940

Beginning in the mid-1940s, this led to periodic work for Foster on Maxwell Street and in clubs in the city for over a decade.

He also worked during this time in a band with Homesick James, Moody Jones and Floyd Jones.

1942

By 1942, he was working in Clarksdale.

1943

Around 1943, he relocated to Chicago.

He played the blues around the city and teamed up with Floyd Jones, Lazy Bill Lucas, and his cousin Leroy Foster.

Having befriended Big Walter Horton, Foster learned to play the harmonica in Horton's Chicago blues style.

1955

In January 1955, Foster recorded two sides for Parrot Records, his own compositions "Falling Rain Blues" and "Four Day Jump", with accompaniment by Lucas, Jones and Eddie Taylor.

Foster reportedly incurred the displeasure of the record label's owner, Al Benson, for reporting him to the American Federation of Musicians for underpaid dues on the recordings.

1957

In March 1957, Foster was back in a recording studio in Chicago, where he recorded two more of his songs, "Crying the Blues" and "Little Girl".

Regarding the former, AllMusic noted that it "reflected both his emotional singing and his wailing, swooping harmonica".

From this point onwards, his personal life started to degenerate.

Attending a house party, Foster was accidentally shot in the head by a woman playing with a handgun.

The shooting caused partial paralysis and severely affected his ability to speak.

He made a slow recovery but rarely played in public thereafter.

1974

In January 1974, Foster voluntarily surrendered himself to the local police after he shot and killed his roommate.

1975

Pleading self-defense and impairment of judgement due to his brain injury, he was found not guilty by reason of insanity and was sent to a state hospital in 1975.

1987

Foster died of kidney cancer in the Illinois Insane Asylum in Chicago on November 25, 1987, aged 65.

His four released recordings are available on numerous compilation albums, issued both before and after his death.

The variant spelling of his first name is due to the different spellings on his two singles.