Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen is a singer, songwriter, and musician from the United States. He has 20 studio albums to his credit, several of which feature his E Street Band backup band. He is one of the founders of the heartland rock type of music, which combines popular rock musical style with narrative lyrics about working-class American life. He hails from the Jersey Shore. Springsteen has been recognized for his lyrical, socially concerned lyrics and passionate stage performances, which may run up to four hours, during the course of his six-decade career.

Springsteen's first two albums, Greetings from Asbury Park, N.J., and The Wild, the Innocent, and the E Street Shuffle were released in 1973 and received little critical acclaim. With Born to Run in 1975, he reinvented his approach and became an international sensation. Darkness on the Edge of Town (1978) and The River (1980), both of which topped the US Billboard 200 list, followed. Nebraska was his first solo album sans the E Street Band (1982). Born in the United States of America (1984), on which Springsteen reunited with the E Street Band, was his most commercially successful album and one of the best-selling albums of all time. Seven of the album's tracks, including the title tune, charted in the top ten on the Billboard Hot 100. Springsteen used largely studio musicians for his following three albums, Tunnel of Love (1987), Human Touch (1992), and Lucky Town (1992). Bruce Springsteen's net worth is estimated to be at $500 million in 2022.

Born: September 23, 1949, Long Branch, New Jersey, United States