These mainstream records increased his popularity, which eventually led to him becoming a leading artist of the R&B scene. On this album he worked with some of the biggest names of hip-hop music, such as T.I. His second studio album named “The Phoenix” was released in 2006, and reached #2 in Billboard’s Top 200 albums, and his third album “Lyfe Change” in 2008, had the same place on this Billboard chart. In 2005, he published his first single “Must Be Nice”, which peaked as a top 40 hit on the Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles and Tracks top five category, increasing his net worth to a large degree. Lyfe Jennings produced his first studio album called “Lyfe 268-192” – his assigned prison number – released in August 2004. After Lyfe had won this competition, he was offered a number of contracts and eventually he signed with Sony Urban Music. Soon after, he appeared performing live and won in “Showtime in Harlem”, a musical television competition produced by Apollo Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in New York City, so he moved there. In December 2002, he walked out of prison, and the following day he started recording songs for his demo CD. Thanks to his debut album called “Baduizm of Erykah Badu”, Jennings’ music became deeper. He learned to play the guitar and started writing his own songs.
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During ten years in jail, he had plenty of free time to work on his music career. Jennings lost his father when he was a small boy, so fell under the bad influence of his local environment when he was 14-year-old, he became involved in criminal activities and five years later, at the age of 19 in the year 1992, he was convicted of arson and sentenced to prison. Still, Jennings never gave up on his dream of becoming a widely-known musician, and continued with his career, only this time as a solo act.
Although they were very popular at local talent competitions and accepted by the public, the vocal group soon fell apart.
At the beginning of the 1980s, as a 10-year-old boy he formed the teenage vocal group named “Dostons”, along side Keith Doston’s sons Chris and Tim, and with his brother. When he was in elementary school, he started not only performing with the choir at Cavalry Baptist Church, but also writing songs. As a very young boy he showed a talent for music and an inspiration he saw in his uncle Keith Doston, who was a singer in the group “KGB”. Lyfe Jennings was raised with older brother Jay in Toledo. Have you ever wondered how rich Lyfe Jennings is? As of late 2015, it is reported that Jennings’ overall net worth is $500,000, an amount he owes mostly to his successful career in the music industry, but which has been limited by spells in jail. He is also recognized as an instrumentalist, because he plays the piano, bass and guitar. Chester Jermaine Jennings was born on the 3rd June 1973, in Toledo, Ohio, USA, and as Lyfe Jennings he is best known as a soul and R&B musician – singer, songwriter and record producer.
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