Sean Kingston Net Worth, Money and more

By alekya kutti | February 26, 2014 0 Comments

Sean Kingston’s Net Worth -$7 million

Profession – Rapper, Singer and Song Writer

Sean Kingston is a Jamaican-American rapper. His real name is Kisean Anderson, he is best known by his stage name Sean Kingston. Sean Kingston was born on February 3^rd 1990 in Miami, Florida. Sean Kingston’s mother’s name is Donna Kingston and Father is Ryan Kingston. He has one younger sister named Kayla Kingston.

CHILDHOOD AND EDUCATION.

At the age of six, Kingston moved from Miami, Florida to Kingston, Jamaica. He attended high school in Ocho Rios. Sean had a very rough life in his childhood, from getting arrested at the age of 11 for a burglary to sleeping in cars. He was homeless for many days as his mother was incarcerated for a fraud identity. He is a self –proclaimed person, he uses his past hard life experiences in his lyrics. Though his life was very tough during his teenage days, he moved towards lucrative direction by taking is effort to write rhymes and hooks. He started participating in Miami talent shows, eventually sharing stage with Pitbull, Ludacris, and Tricky Daddy. Sean’s music career started when he was discovered by Tommy Rotem on Myspace page. Sean was offered a partnership deal with the label named Sony Records. He got many opportunities after signing to the multi-platinum producer Jonathan J.R. Rotem’s Beluga Heights label. He made his debut in 2007 with the album named “Sean Kingston”. Since Sean is a Jamaican singer, so he got his stage name ‘Kingston‘ from the capital of Jamaica called Kingston, Jamaica. There after he became famous as Sean Kingston to everyone. When he debuted first album he was just 16 years old. Though he looks elder he started progressing in his career at early age.

PERSONAL LIFE

Sean filmed a public service announcement with Do Something, which is a non-profit organization to encourage youngsters to participate in social activities by becoming the member of the club. He even appeared in a ad-video with his own dog for PETA, to give a message to people not to chain their dogs outside their houses.Sean was severely injured in a jet skiing accident in Miami Beach, Florida on May 29^th 2011 .He suffered a fractured wrist with broken jaw along with water in his lungs , but later he recovered fully.

NET WORTH & MONEY

 

He is not the only one in the Anderson family to choose music career. His grand father, known as Jack Ruby was a sound system operator and music producer. Back in the days when Ruby started his professional career he was the only one to have a studio in Kingston. Despite Ruby’s achievements and his input in popularizing Reggae music, his fortune did not equal Kingston’s net worth. Because had a rough life before becoming the professional rapper. Sean Kingston net worth started increasing when his debut album was released. And his career started progressing after his release of second album Tomorrow (2009).Sean Kingston’s net worth is about $7 million. He earns money from his music albums and also by appearing in some television shows like Suite Life on Deck, Yo Gabha Gabha. He owns the most expensive cars like Mercedes Benz SLS, Bentley Mulsanne, Rolls Royce, Range Rover, Maybach, White Bentley Mulsanne, Lamborghini Aventador, Bentley continental, Red Ferrari California, and G-Wagon.

MUSIC CAREER

He made his Debut in 2007 with album named Sean Kingston. Sean besides being a Rapper, he is also a singer, and song writer. His first debut album stood at 6^th place in US Billboard all-genre Top 200 chart. The album features its lead single “Beautiful girls” song climbed to number one position in Billboard Top 100 in 2007. Similarly, another song of Sean Kingston which was entitled “Me Love” was created upon the model of the song “Dyer Maker” by Led Zeppelin, which was feature in their album called “Houses of Holy”. The song stood at first place in Australia, where it replaced Fergie’s hit song “Big Girls Don’t Cry” which had been in the first place before the single of Sean Kingston entered the charts. Thus his net worth increased a lot due to his popularity in Australia also. He also included Reggae genre fusion in his songs along with Hip Hop and dance. He features past life experiences in his song lyrics. He also worked with many famous people like Chris Brown, Justin Bieber, Wiz Khalifa, WyCleaf Jean, Akon, Nicki Minaj, Dr. Dre, Kanye West, Florida and many more. His songs were also featured along with many other famous professional singers and rappers too.

Album:                       

Sean Kingston (2007)

Tomorrow (2009)

Back 2 Life (2013)

Mixed Tapes:

My Time (2009)

Yesterday (2011)

King of Kingz (2011)

ACHIEVEMENTS

He was nominated in Image Awards 2008 for Outstanding New Artist category. He won MOBO awards in 2007 for Best Reggae acts. He was also nominated for MTV Video Music Awards Japan in 2013 for Best Reggae video “Back 2 Life (Live It Up)”. He also achieved Teen Choice Awards in 2007 for Choice R&B Track “Beautiful Girls” and nominated for the categories like Choice Summer Track “Beautiful Girls”, Choice Summer Song “Fire Burning”.