Joshua Winslow Groban, commonly known as Josh Groban, is a famous American musician, record producer, singer and songwriter, as well as an actor. Josh Groban made his debut in the industry in 1998, when he met Brian Avne who would become his manager, and a well-known record producer David Foster, who gave him an opportunity to sing during some of the most sophisticated events, such as the Grammy Awards, and Gray Davis’ inauguration. Groban’s performances resulted in his appearance on the “Ally McBeal” television series, where he co-starred alongside Calista Flockhart, Courtney Thorne-Smith, Greg Germann and Lisa Nicole Carson. In the series, Josh Groban played the character of Malcolm Wyatt, who soon became the audience’s favorite, hence he was asked to continue his appearances on the show. According to Avnet, such public exposure helped Groban launch his career in the entertainment industry. The years 2000 and 2001 were extremely commercially profitable for Groban, as he kept performing at various events and signings together with such artists as Elton John, Sarah Brightman and Stevie Wonder.
Josh Groban Net Worth $30 Million
Groban’s early popularity resulted in the release of his first, self-titled album later in 2001 “Josh Groban” went on to receive a double Platinum certification from the RIAA, and produced such singles as “You’re Still You” and “To Where You Are”, which peaked at #10 and #1 on the Billboard Hot Adult Contemporary Chart respectively.
A famous singer, as well as an actor, how rich is Josh Groban? The sources state that Josh Groban’s net worth is estimated to be $30 million, most of which he has managed to accumulate during his singing and acting career.
Josh Groban was born in 1981, in Los Angeles, California, where he studied at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, and later enrolled in the Carnegie Mellon University. Groban left the university during his first year, as he intended to focus on his singing career instead. After his successful debut in the music industry, Josh Groban continued performing during various important events, where he sang alongside Nick Carter, Sting, Enrique Iglesias and others. Over the years, some of Groban’s most notable performances have included a duet with Celine Dion during the rehearsal for the Grammy Awards, a duet with Heather Headley during Presidential Inaugurations, a performance with Sarah Brightman in Wembley Stadium, and a performance at the Royal Albert Hall with Adam Pascal and Idina Menzel in 2008. In addition to that, Josh Groban has released five more studio albums, the most recent of which, namely “All That Echoes”, debuted at #1 on the Billboard music chart and was certified Silver in the United Kingdom with more than 60,000 copies sold, and Gold in Canada with over 40,000 record sales.
People's: "100 Most Beautiful People" (2008), "100 Sexiest Newcomer" (2002), Best Selling Artist of All Time (2007, Barnes & Noble)
Movies
Coffee Town, Crazy, Stupid, Love, Chess: In Concert
TV Shows
“The Oprah Winfrey Show” with Oprah Winfrey, “Larry King Live” with Larry King, “Crazy, Stupid, Love” with Ryan Gosling, “The Office”, American Idol: "Idol Gives Back" (2007), Tsunami Aid: A Concert of Hope (2005), Fifth Annual Adopt-A-Minefield concert (2005), 2nd Annual Grammy Jam ...
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There needs to be more risk-taking out there. Things like Twitter and the blogosphere are so instantaneously critical that it's actually created a culture of artistic fear to branch out too much because you don't want to be slammed.
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I wrote a pretty good dad joke in the car: How did the grammar teacher die? He got overly hyphenated and slipped into a comma.
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[observation, 2015] The last few days were nothing but sociopaths. I watched all of 'The Jinx'. Then I watched 'Nightcrawler'.Then I watched 'Foxcatcher'. It was like, "0h mg God, all these men are exactly the same.
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I think we're all so in our heads as singers that if you start to develop all sorts of quirks and superstitions, it just starts to build on itself and eventually you're wearing six pairs of underwear and won't go out to the audience unless they're all faced to the left. I try to keep my rituals to a minimum for my own mental sanity.
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[on 'You Raise Me Up'] I can be cynical backstage about songs and be like, 'There's this song or that song that I can absolutely not get offstage without singing'. But to have a song like that - that's a career song. It's the kind if song that has a universal message for people, and people love to hear it. Every time you see that audience reaction, every time you sing it again, you go 'Man, what a lucky thing to have a song like this'.
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[on the death of James Gandolfini] Thank you James Gandolfini for some of the most brilliant TV moments of all time. So sad!
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Half of my brain has always been about the seriousness of music, about singing my guts out, and about trying to elevate the song to a place there's no laughter allowed. At least not on purpose. And then the other side of me doesn't take myself seriously at all and is a complete goofball, and loved playing theater games with my improv team when I was younger. I think it's trying to be intelligent about when and where you let those sides of you shine.
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[on working with producer Rick Rubin on "Illuminations"] The co-writing was a bit of a surprise for me. I trust Rick's ear tremendously and I trust his ability to take any style of music - and my style was completely new to him - and put it through his filter. I think his motto for me was "I know you can sing your ass off. I want these songs to be coming from you rather than just being presented by you as a vocalist".
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My relationship with David Foster is arguably better than it's ever been. He's always been a wonderful friend and mentor, and we've always known from the beginning that sometimes we'll work together and sometimes we won't. We have a much more meaningful relationship in each other's lives that goes far beyond whether we make an album together or not.
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My mom gets two Christmas trees every year. She loves them and had too many ornaments for one, so she gets two. If you can walk through the hallway without getting stuck in the eye by a pine needle, then it can't be Christmas.
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No matter what your age and no matter where you come from, everyone can change the world in some way, whether it's being a mentor to someone younger than you or someone that doesn't have as much experience as you. If you're passionate enough, you can do whatever you want and definitely change the world.
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The shower is my time to open up my operatic chops, because of the enormous echo. You sound five times as big in the shower, so I break into some "Nessun Dorma" [from Giacomo Puccini's "Turandot"] or Pearl Jam. You've got to go big when you're in the shower. There's no half-singing in the shower, you're either a rock star or an opera diva.
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[People Weekly, 6/21/04] I hope to break through the Top 40, not by changing what I do but by changing the way people think.
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[in 2001 interview] I sang all my life. My parents had me singing around the house when I was younger. I'm not from a showbiz family or anything. It's just something I enjoyed doing. When I started getting into seventh or eighth grade, I became part of the theater program. I went to L.A. County High School for the Arts and did more singing there. It's really something I did on the side and then I met David Foster. I was working with a voice teacher who was a friend of the family's. David . . . called him and told him he needed a singer for an event he was doing. That's how that started.
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Josh and Kat Dennings have been in a relationship since October 2014.
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A descendant on his mom's side from John Winslow and his wife Mary Chilton who sailed on the Mayflower. Tradition says Mary Winslow was actually the first person from the Maylower to actually step onto Plymouth Rock.
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Performed the role of 'Tevye' in "Fiddler On The Roof" at The Los Angeles County High School for the Arts.
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Attended the Los Angeles County High School For The Arts with Dayna Price.
Josh's father is from an Ashkenazi Jewish family (from Ukraine and Russia). Josh's father converted to Christianity when he married Josh's mother. Josh's mother has English, German, Ashkenazi Jewish (from her own maternal grandfather), and Norwegian (from her own maternal grandmother) ancestry. Josh's Norwegian-American great-grandmother had family from Toten, Norway. Josh was raised an Episcopalian.
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Josh and his younger brother, Chris Groban, were born on the exact same day, 4 years apart.
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He was first "seen" when he stood in for Andrea Bocelli to sing "The Prayer" with Céline Dion at the 1998 Grammy rehearsals. This led to the MC for the Grammys that year, Rosie O'Donnell, to invite Josh to appear on her show.
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When David E. Kelley witnessed the audience reaction to Josh singing at California. Gov. Gray Davis' Inaugural, he wrote Josh into an Ally McBeal (1997) show where the audience in the show exhibits the same reaction to his voice. His character of Malcolm Wyatt was so popular that he was asked to come back the next season to reprise his role.
