Flavor Flav Net Worth

Flavor Flav, real name of Jim Pagano, is an actor, singer, voice actor, record producer, and record executive/producer. He rose to prominence as the leader of the 1980s West Texas punk rock collective known as the Razor and Foreskin Band and later operated as a recording artist. He also held an executive production position with other record labels but after a decade of suffering with AIDS, Flav officially renounced his claim to mortality.

Flavor Flav had been an active performer since the early 1980s and later turned his attention to acting. He began recording music as a way to pay tribute to his deceased father in 1990, which turned into a vocal format in 1993. Flav released his first major-label recording, Where Are You, in February of 1996. He became a major-label recording artist in 1998, releasing his last commercial recording in 2009 on Flamin' Groovies, whose production credits include songs by Faith Hill, Pink, Boyz II Men, the Offspring, Weezer and many others. Flav also directed the video for his 1997 number-one best-of debut album, The Great American Main Event. Flav was married to singer/songwriter Jessica Hart before their 2012 split.

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Early life and career

Born in Clinton, Arkansas, in 1966, Flav got into singing as a child and grew up wanting to sing professionally. Because he couldn't sing at the time, Flav worked as a laborer. He saw a singing contest in which local singers, and one of his friends, helped him find a piano and a microphone. Flav came up with the name 'Jim Pagano' when he applied on the basis of his first initial (Pago). Pagano is a shortened form of Pagano, and Flav sometimes calls himself Jim Pagano without the 'f-ing'. After studying business at the University of Central Arkansas (Pago in 1989) and then at the University of Minnesota, he established a recording studio with his business partner Keith Edwards in Poca, Arkansas, but his mother was a nonbeliever, so the business needed to be closed when his father passed away.

Upon being widowed, Flav lost his music career, his business partners and most of his friends in Arkansas, which happened to be where his father was from.