- He was a British singer, songwriter and actor
Real name: | David Robert Jones |
David Bowie Height
| How tall was David Bowie? | 178 cm / 5 ft 11 in | Born: | 08 January 1947 Comment | When did David Bowie die? / Died | 10 January 2016 | How many years did David Bowie live? / Lived | 69 years | Where was David Bowie born? | Brixton, London, United Kingdom | Where did David Bowie die? / Deathplace | Manhattan, New York, US | Nicknames: | The Chameleon of Rock, Aladdin Sane, Major Tom, The Starman, The Thin White Duke, Ziggy Stardust, The Picasso of Pop, The Dame, The Master of Reinvention | Zodiac sign: | Capricorn |
David Bowie Net worth 2024 (estimated)
| How much is David Bowie worth? | $230,000,000
| Nationality: | British | Hair color: | Brown | Eyes color: | Blue |
Who was David Bowie? / Facts
- Record sales - estimated at 140 million worldwide, made him one of the world's best-selling music artists
- Awards - In the UK, he was awarded nine platinum album certifications, eleven gold and eight silver
- Albums - He had eleven number-one albums
- In the US, he received five platinum and seven gold certifications
- Fame - He was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1996
- His interest in music started being a child - he studyed art, music and design before becoming a musician in 1963
- First success - "Space Oddity", a top-five entry on the UK Singles Chart in July 1969
- In 1972, he came back on the scene with his alter ego Ziggy Stardust
- The character was spearheaded by the success of his single "Starman" and album The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars, which won him widespread popularity
- First number-one - the single "Fame" and the album Young Americans
- Acting - In 1976, Bowie starred in the cult film The Man Who Fell to Earth and released Station to Station
- He had UK number ones with the 1980 single "Ashes to Ashes", its parent album Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps), and "Under Pressure", a 1981 collaboration with Queen
- He then reached his commercial peak in 1983 with Let's Dance, with its title track topping both UK and US charts
- He continued acting, with roles such as Major Celliers in Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (1983), the Goblin King Jareth in Labyrinth (1986), Pontius Pilate in The Last Temptation of Christ (1988), and Nikola Tesla in The Prestige (2006), among other film and television appearances and cameos
- Stats - 636k subscribers on Youtube and 1 million followers on Instagram as of Jan 2019
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Quotes
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Talking about art is like dancing about architecture.
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I'm an instant star; just add water.
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I reinvented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.
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Rock has always been the devil's music.
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