Bruce Springsteen Net Worth 2024: Know His Age, Height, and Personal Life
American rock musician Bruce Springsteen was born and raised in Freehold, New Jersey. His most famous songs include “Born in the USA” and “Born to Run,” and he calls himself the “boss.” With twenty Grammys, an Academy Award, and two Golden Globes to his name, Bruce Springsteen has become an international superstar and is generally considered one of the best rock and roll artists of all time.
When was Bruce Springsteen Born?
Bruce Frederick Joseph Springsteen was born in Long Branch, New Jersey on September 23, 1949, and he spent his childhood in Freehold. He is the younger of two sisters. Springsteen claims that his religious upbringing greatly impacted his music; he was raised a Catholic and attended St. Rose of Lima Catholic School. Yet, it was Elvis Presley, whom he first saw on “The Ed Sullivan Show” when he was seven years old, who sparked his early love in music. Springsteen did not serve in the Vietnam War because he did not pass the physical examination for the United States conscription after suffering a concussion in a motorbike accident when he was seventeen years old.
Career
In 1964, Springsteen purchased his initial guitar, once again influenced by a performance he witnessed on “The Ed Sullivan Show,” this occasion featuring the Beatles. Not long after that, he joined a band called the Rogues and began performing in Freehold venues. In the midst of that year, his parents borrowed money to purchase a $60 Kent guitar for him, an event that he describes in his song “The Wish.”
Springsteen also played in a number of other bands in the ’60s and ’70s, including Earth, Steel Mill, the Sundance Blues Band, the Bruce Springsteen Band, and the Castiles. It was during this time that his lyrics and songwriting skills started to gain him more attention than his performances alone. Columbia Records signed Bruce Springsteen in 1972 after music executive Clive Davis piqued the interest of talent scout John Hammond. Although the E Street Band wasn’t formally established until a few months later, Springsteen assembled a number of his New Jersey-based musical contemporaries for his debut endeavor. The January 1973 release of his first studio album, “Greetings from Asbury Park,” was met with mixed reviews and sluggish sales.
Sales were poor for Springsteen’s “The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle,” his second studio album, even though it was well-received by critics. Springsteen had a sizable budget to work with for his third studio album, which he attempted to turn into a commercially successful record. The song “Born to Run” was recorded six months out of the fourteen months it took to record the album “Born to Run.” After its August 1975 debut, it achieved tremendous commercial success, reaching a peak of #3 on the Billboard 200. That October, Springsteen graced the covers of Newsweek and Time, respectively.
In 1978, after a protracted legal dispute with his former manager Mike Appel, Bruce Springsteen released “Darkness on the Edge of the Town” and began an extensive cross-country tour to support the record. “The River” (his 1980 double album) received his first Billboard Pop Albums number one, and “Nebraska” (his 1982 solo acoustic album) was selected “Album of the Year” by Rolling Stone magazine.
No Springsteen record is more famous than 1984’s smash single “Born in the U.S.A.,” which went on to sell 30 million copies globally and 15 million in the United States alone, making it one of the best-selling albums of all time. The RIAA has accredited it with fifteen platinum certifications. After this came “Tunnel of Love” (1987), “Human Touch” (1992), “Lucky Town” (1992), and “The Ghost of Tom Joad” (1995), an acoustic album. Along with his 1999 induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and his 1994 Oscar for best original song, “Streets of Philadelphia,” he accomplished a lot in the ’90s.
Additional success for Springsteen arrived in the 2000s. Reuniting with the E Street Band for 2002’s “The Rising,” which garnered the Grammy for Best Rock Album of the Year, followed a hiatus with them during the 1990s. Released in April 2005, “Devils & Dust” followed in the same vein as his two prior acoustic albums. “Magic”(2007), “Working on a Dream”(2009), “Wrecking Ball” (2012), and “High Hopes” (2014) are among his other work since then. Releases of “Western Stars” in 2019 were followed by “Letter To You” in 2020 and “Only the Strong Survive” in 2022.
The E Street Band and Bruce Springsteen returned to the road in 2023 after a six-year hiatus. As the lead single from the Gaslight Anthem’s upcoming album due out in October 2023, “History Books” features Bruce’s vocals.
The sum of Springsteen’s accolades includes twenty Grammys, four ACMs, two Golden Globes, and an Oscar.
Bruce Springsteen’s Personal Life
Some of Springsteen’s relationships stand out. He wed actress Julianne Phillips in May 1985, even though they were eleven years apart in age. Their relationship suffered due to his hectic traveling schedule, and they divorced in March 1989 after separating in 1988. Springsteen started seeing Patti Scialfa, who had toured with him on the Born in the U.S.A. Tour (1984) and the Tunnel of Love Express Tour (1988), not long after he split up with Phillips. They tied the knot in 1991, and Springsteen and Scialfa now have three kids between the two of them. Sam, their youngest son, is a firefighter for the Colts Neck neighborhood.
A lot of Springsteen’s songs have political messages in them, either directly or indirectly. “Born in the U.S.A.” (1984) was a popular but misunderstood statement about how the United States treated its Vietnam War veterans, and “American Skin (41 Shots)” (1999) was a contentious song about the killing of Amadou Diallo. President Barack Obama conferred the Medal of Freedom upon Springsteen in November 2016. President Joe Biden presented him with the National Medal of Arts in 2023.
Bruce Springsteen’s Height and Weight
Standing at around 176.5 cm tall and 77 kg heavy, Bruce Springsteen is a massive man.
Bruce Springsteen’s Net Worth
An estimated $81 million is Bruce Springsteen’s net worth. Many consider him to be among the all-time greats in the music industry. His fortune is mostly based on the millions of CDs he has sold over the years, the money he has made from concerts and investments.