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David Bowie's Wiki: Young, Fame, Net Worth, Eyes, Makeup, Wife, Kids & Death

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David Robert Jones was born on 8 January 1947 in Brixton, London, England; known world-wide as David Bowie, he was an outstanding entertainer, firstly as a singer, but also as a songwriter, film score composer, record producer, and actor, recognised as one the most outstanding music entertainers Britain has produced, on a par with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in the modern era. He passed away in 2016.
A world-renowned singer and songwriter, how rich was David Bowie? According to celebrity dot money, David Bowie’s net worth was estimated to be over 230 million dollars, most of which he accumulated from his successful singing career spanning over 50 years. In 2002 his earnings from the “Heathen” album alone amounted to 2.5 million dollars, while in 2013 his album called “The Next Day” still brought him 250,000 dollars. 
Bowie studied at the Burnt Ash Junior School, where he excelled in the school’s choir, and also proved to be a talented dancer. Inspired by John Coltrane and Charles Mingus, Bowie took up saxophone classes, which he played in the first band with whom Bowie performed at various local events and gatherings. Subsequently, Bowie decided to follow a career in the music industry, initially playing professionally in such bands as “The Konrads” and “The King Bees”, but later joined “The Manish Boys” and “The Lower Third”. Since he had difficulty attracting the audience’s attention as a member of rock groups, Bowie decided upon launching a solo career, as a result of which he changed his name from David Jones to David Bowie.
Bowie rose to prominence in 1969 with the release of his single called “Space Oddity”, which captured the imagination of the public in the period of extensive space exploration. The song became so popular that it earned him an Ivor Novello Award, and was included in the soundtrack of Stanley Kubrick’s film “2001: A Space Odyssey”. That same year, Bowie released his second studio album, which was initially entitled “David Bowie”, but due to the popularity of the song was renamed “Space Oddity”.  A further big break for Bowie came in 1975, when he came out with the album called “Young Americans”, which produced the popular single “Fame”.
Over 30 years he produced a variety of performances and personas, in song, on the stage in concerts, and in films. Bowie's discography eventually stretched to 27 studio albums, nine live albums, and seven compilations albums, the last "Black Star" just days before his passing. Additionally his collaborations with such artists as Queen and Annie Lennox were inevitably applauded by audiences world-wide. In the UK, he scored nine Platinum album certifications, eleven Gold and eight Silver, while in the US, five Platinum and seven Gold certifications. Bowie’s contributions to music have been acknowledged with Grammy Awards, BRIT Awards, and Saturn Awards to name a few. Bowie has also been included in the list of “100 Greatest Britons”, and inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 
Following his breakthrough with “Space Oddity”, Bowie not only became a prominent singer, but an actor as well, which he had begun prior to succeeding in music. Over the years, Bowie received a Saturn Award for his role in "The Man Who Fell To Earth" in 1976, was highly commended for his role in the 1983 film "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence", and made appearances in such films as “Yellowbeard” the same year with David Sherlock and Peter Cook, “The Linguini Incident” in 1991, and the now iconic musical fantasy film “Labyrinth” in 1986, which despite its initial commercial failure, soon gained a cult following, and inspired the release of a graphic novel.
In regards to his personal life - which he kept largely private - David Bowie was married twice. His first marriage to Mary Angela Barnett ended in divorce in 1980, a decade after their marriage in 1970. In 1992 he married Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid. David Bowie has two children, namely Duncan Jones – actually christened Zowie Bowie - with Mary, and Alexandria Zahra Jones with Imam. Sadly, David Bowie died on 10 January 2016 in New York City from liver cancer, which had been diagnosed just 18 months previously.

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