Travie McCoy is a singer, a rapper, and a songwriter of America. He is famous for both his solo career and as a lead singer, and a founding member of the band titled Gym Class Heroes. Here is a quick summary of Travis McCoy’s net worth in 2018, career and earnings.
Travie McCoy Early Life
Travis Lazarus McCoy who is famous as Schleprok or Travis McCoy was born on 6th of August in the year 1981 in Geneva, New York, U.S. He was interested in art since his childhood and was a tattoo artist during his teenage years. He attended Geneva High School, and after that, he joined Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute. At the age of 20, he dropped out to concentrate on his music career and his tattoo work.
Travie McCoy Career
Travie McCoy was involved in music since his teenage years and used to perform with other musicians for some time. After that, he started his own band named Gym Class Heroes in the year 1997. During the initial days of the band, Travie used to do multiple works for his living and later when the band became successful he continued concentrating on his music.
The band released their first album titled As Cruel as School Children. After this, their songs were hitting the Billboard charts back to back, and they got the fame they wanted. Since then they released many hit songs including Cupid’s Chokehold, Clothes Off!!, Cookie Jar, and others. The most recent song of the band is The Papercut Chronicles II.
Along with his career in the band, Travie started his career as a solo singer in the year 2010. He began with the debut album Lazarus. This album was a hit, and since then he released many songs like Golden, Keep on Keeping On, Rough Water, All In, She Did It, and others.
Other than these, Travie McCoy also has his own music imprint named The Bat Squad.
In his own life, Travie was in the news for dating the famous singer Katy Perry. The two got separated in the year 2008 but some songs of Katy like Circle the Drain which was released in the year 2010 shows that she was not over him for so long.
Awards & Achievement
Travie McCoy is loved a lot by people and has been accoladed well for his work. He has been awarded by Best New Artist in the year 2007. Other than this, he has also won an MC battle in the year 2002 on the MTV’s Direct Effect.
Many songs and albums of Travie have hit the Billboard chart including Billionaire which was released in the year 2010, Golden which was released in the year 2015, We’ll Be Alright which was released in the year 2010, Need You which was released in the year 2010, Keep on Keeping On which was released in the year 2014, and Superbad which was released in the year 2010.
Net Worth of Travie McCoy
Travie McCoy has earned a net worth of $13.5 million till now in his career. The major source of income of Travie is his career as a singer. He is earning both as a solo singer and by performing in the band. He has given many hit albums and songs which have added well to his net worth.
Travie McCoy is a singer, a rapper, and a songwriter of America who has earned a net worth of $9 million. He pursued his passion from a very young age and became a very well known singer in the industry.