Where did Fats Domino grow up and live?

📍5515 Marais Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

1928 – 2005

“I lived on Marais Street in the Lower Ninth Ward my whole life. I was born nearby and I came back here after the records, after the tours, after Blueberry Hill made my name known everywhere. The Ninth Ward was home and it never stopped being home. I had the house painted pink and yellow — you could not miss it — and I stayed when everyone said men in my position should move somewhere else. I had my piano in there and my family and my neighbourhood and that was everything. When Hurricane Katrina came in 2005, the water took the house. I was rescued from the roof by boat. People thought I had died because no one could find me for days. But I survived, and the first thing I wanted was to come back and rebuild. New Orleans made my music. The rhythm of this city, the second-line parades, the church music, the blues coming up from the bars — it is all inside every record I ever made.”

👍 LovedThe food, the music on every corner, the way New Orleans treated joy as a serious matter, and neighbours who had known me since before anyone outside Louisiana had heard my name.

👎 DislikedThe levees that failed and took the neighbourhood. The Ninth Ward was already overlooked before the storm — Katrina just made the neglect impossible to ignore.

Map showing where Fats Domino lived — 5515 Marais Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

🗺️ Approximate location today

Street view of Fats Domino's home at 5515 Marais Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States

📍 Street view today

Sources: Fats Domino's life on Marais Street is documented in Rick Coleman's biography Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock 'n' Roll (2006) and in extensive post-Katrina coverage by The Times-Picayune and the BBC.