Rick James Net Worth

Rick James net worth is estimated to be $250 thousand. This includes his property, funds, and earnings. his job career is his main source of income. Rick has amassed a large wealth from numerous sources of income, yet he likes to live a humble lifestyle.

Who is Rick James ?

Rick James was an artist musician, multi-instrumentalist, and maker from the United States. James was born and raised in Buffalo, New York, where he began his musical career as a teenager. Before joining the US Navy to avoid being drafted in the mid-1960s, he was involved in a variety of clubs and events.

Rick James Age

James was born in Buffalo, New York, on February 1, 1948. He is 75 years old as of 2023.

Rick James Family

Mabel (née Sims) and James Ambrose Johnson Sr. are Rick James Parent . He was the eighth child in a family of eight. James’ father, an autoworker, abandoned the family when he was ten years old. His mother worked as a numbers runner after working as a dancer for Katherine Dunham.

James’s mother would take him on her collecting route, and he witnessed John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Etta James perform in the bars where she worked. In his autobiography Glow, James stated that he lost his virginity to a 14-year-old local girl when he was “9 or 10,” claiming that his “kinky side crept in early.”

Rick James Spouse

He was married to Sayville Morgan, a former singer, and songwriter, and they had two children together.

From 1982 until 1984, James dated actress Linda Blair. After James read an interview in which Blair described him as sexy, they met. During a brief stay at the Chateau Marmont in Hollywood, he called her and spent time getting to know her. “Cold Blooded,” his smash song, was about his relationship with Blair. In his memoirs, he claimed, “It was about how Linda could ice my blood.”

In 1989, James met Tanya Hijazi, a 17-year-old partygoer. In 1990, the two began dating. Tazman, the couple’s sole child and James’ youngest, was born to them in 1993. The couple married in 1996 after their release from prison for attacking Mary Sauger and Frances Alley and divorced in 2002.

Teena Marie was a close friend of James’, whom he met and began working within 1979. Teena Marie revealed that they had been romantically linked for three months and that they had been engaged “for two weeks.” Their professional relationship lasted until Marie launched her comeback album, La Doa, in 2004, which featured a duet between Marie and James called “I Got You.”

Rick James Children

James has three children: a girl named Ty, a son named Rick Jr, and a younger boy named Tazman.

Rick James’s Professional Life.

He escaped to Toronto in 1965, where he became friends with Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, two local musicians at the time. James used the alias “Ricky James Matthews” to avoid being discovered by military authorities. James formed the Mynah Birds in the same year, a band that fused soul, folk, and rock music.

In 1965, the band recorded for Columbia Records’ Canadian division and released the song “Mynah Bird Hop”/”Mynah Bird Song.” Nick St. Nicholas, later of Steppenwolf fame, was a member at one point, but by the time “Mynah Bird Hop” was recorded, bassist Bruce Palmer had replaced him. To establish a new Mynah Birds band, James and Palmer enlisted guitarists Tom Morgan and Xavier Taylor, as well as drummer Rick Mason, and headed to Detroit to record with Motown.

Morgan departed the group before they began recording their first tracks for the label, dissatisfied with the label’s approach toward the musicians. He was eventually replaced by Neil Young. James met his musical heroes, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder, while in Detroit. When Wonder met him and gave him his name, he thought “Ricky James Matthews” was “too long,” so he urged James to abbreviate it to “Ricky James.”

In 1966, Motown learned of James’s fugitive status with the Navy during a financial dispute in Toronto between James and the Mynah Birds’ handler, Morley Shelman. Motown executives told Rick they would not be releasing any more of his material and “convinced” him to come back and work with them after resolving his legal difficulties, hoping to avoid any federal attention.

James turned himself into the FBI and was sentenced to five months of hard labor by the Navy in May 1966 for “Unauthorized Absence.” He had not yet reached the age of 19. James escaped from the Brooklyn Naval Brig after only six weeks, but after six months on the run, he surrendered and, with the help of his mother, found legal help from his cousin, Congressman Louis Stokes, and an attorney, former Marine Captain John Bracken, who reduced James’ second court-martial from a potential five years of hard labor to five months.

After being released from Portsmouth Naval Prison in August 1967, James went to Toronto and was arrested again, delaying the continuation of his career with Mynah Bird bandmate Neil Merryweather, with whom he would subsequently work at Motown and in Los Angeles.