Rock legend Bruce Springsteen is now part of the club of musicians whose fortune exceeds a billion dollars, joining Rihanna, Jay-Z and Taylor Swift, the business magazine Forbes estimated on Friday.
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Born in working-class New Jersey, the voice of working-class America and a workaholic, “guitar hero” has “amassed a substantial fortune” for decades “singing about his blue-collar roots”, writes Forbes, which estimates his wealth at $1.1 billion.
Since his first opus Greetings from Asbury Park, NJ (1973), the “boss” has sold some 140 million albums worldwide and his memoir was a bestseller in bookstores. The singer of the American dream and its setbacks has won 20 Grammy Awards and an Oscar for his hit Streets of Philadelphia (1994).
The singer of Born in the USA And Dancing in the Dark, The 74-year-old was also able to expand his fortune in 2021, when he sold the rights to his music catalog to Sony for around $500 million, shortly after a series of sold-out Broadway concerts.
Loyal to his original group, the E Street Band, he is currently on a world tour that is set to continue until 2025. Throughout his career, he has given his fans endless concerts, the longest lasting over four hours, in Helsinki in 2012. He will also be featured in an upcoming biopic, starring the star of the series The Bear, Jeremy Allen White, to play his role.
