What is Chappell Roan’s net worth?
Chappell Roan is an American singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $4 million. Chappell Roan is best known for her dark pop indie style and her reputation as a “queer pop icon”.
Early years
Chappell Roan was born Kayleigh Rose Amstutz on February 19, 1998 in Willard, Missouri, to Dwight and Kara Amstutz. Her father was a trained nurse and her mother was a veterinarian. Chappell Roan was the youngest of four children and grew up in a very religious and conservative trailer park household. She began playing the piano at the age of ten and four years later auditioned for the American television show “America’s Got Talent,” which proved unsuccessful for her.
At the age of 15, Chappell Roan began posting her own music videos on YouTube. Her song “Die Young” caught the attention of several record label executives and at the age of 17, she was signed to Atlantic Records.
Early rise and fall of fame
After getting a contract as a professional singer, Chappell Roan decided to change her name to honor her grandfather – Dennis Chappell had died of brain cancer the previous year and his favorite song was “The Strawberry Roan” by cowboy composer Curley Fletcher.
In 2017, Chappell Roan released her debut album, “School Nights.” The following year, she moved to Los Angeles, where she began living openly as a gay woman. In 2018, she toured for three months with English singer and songwriter Declan Benedict McKenna.
In April 2020, Chappell Roan released the single “Pink Pony Club”, which was inspired by “The Abbey”, a gay bar in West Hollywood. The American daily newspaper “USA Today” voted the song number 3 on its list of the “ten best songs of 2020”. As of August 2022, the song had been streamed over ten million times on Spotify.
Chappell Roan’s next two releases in 2020, “Love Me Anyway” and “California,” were not as successful as hoped and Atlantic Records decided to drop her from the label in August of that year. That year, Chappell Roan was diagnosed with the mood disorder Bipolar II. She moved back to Missouri, where she got a job at a drive-in and worked independently on her music.
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Get up again
In 2022, Chappell Roan moved back to Los Angeles and continued to work independently on her music while working as a production assistant and barista at a donut shop. In March of the same year, she signed a publishing deal with Sony Music Entertainment and released the song “Naked in Manhattan”, which was described by National Public Radio as a “queer girl bop”. She was soon chosen to open for American pop singers Olivia Rodrigo and Fletcher on their upcoming tours.
In 2023, Chappell Roan embarked on her first headlining tour, “Naked in North America,” with drag queens as her opening act. Later that year, she signed with Amusement Records, an imprint of the Jamaican multinational record label Island Records. In September of that year, Chappell Roan’s first album, “The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess,” was released and she embarked on her second tour, “The Midwest Princess Tour.” For every ticket sold, she donated one dollar to the nonprofit organization “For the Gworls,” a black trans-led collective that organizes parties to help black transgender people pay for their gender reassignment surgeries, medications, doctor visits, travel expenses, and rent.
The album made it onto several lists of the best albums of the year, including those of TIME magazine, Rolling Stone, Billboard and Vogue.
In 2024, Chappell Roan was the opening act for Olivia Rodrigo’s Guts World Tour. During the tour, she was a guest on the American late-night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. In April of the same year, Chappell Roan released the song “Good Luck, Babe!” about a woman trying to deny her homosexual feelings. The song was streamed seven million times in its first week, entered Spotify’s top ten list, and debuted at number 77 on the Billboard Hot 100 list. Later that month, Chappell Roan performed at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. In June, “Good Luck, Babe!” reached Billboard’s top ten chart.
Music festivals
On June 9, 2024, Chappell Roan announced that she had declined an invitation to perform at the White House during the annual Pride celebration. She stated that issues surrounding transgender rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were the reasons she had no interest in attending the White House celebration, as she did not believe that freedom, justice, and independence for all currently existed.
Later that year, Chappell Roan performed at the Governor’s Ball Music Festival, the Boston Calling Music Festival, and the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee, where their performance had to be moved to a larger venue to accommodate the large crowd.
Inspirations
Chappell Roan counts English singer-songwriter Kate Bush and musicians Stevie Nicks, Lorde and Lana Del Ray among her musical influences. Her makeup, clothing and hairstyles, she explained, are mostly inspired by drag queens and often reference horror films and burlesque or some other combination of “pretty and scary.”
Personal life
Although Chappell Roan has dated both men and women in the past, she has announced that she no longer dates men and identifies exclusively as a lesbian.
