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Roger Troutman Net Worth
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The main source of income: Musicians
Total Net Worth at the moment 2024 year – is about $119,8 Million.
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Roger Troutman information Birth date: November 29, 1951 Death date: 1999-04-25 Birth place: Dayton, Ohio, USA Profession:Soundtrack, Composer
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How tall is Roger Troutman – 1,71m.
How much weight is Roger Troutman – 58kg
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Biography,Early career: Parliament-Funkadelic and ZappThis section may lend undue weight to certain ideas, incidents, or controversies. Please help to create a more balanced presentation. Discuss and resolve this issue before removing this message. (November 2014)Born in Hamilton, Ohio, Roger was the fourth of ten children. He was a late-arriving member of Parliament-Funkadelic and played on the bands final Warner Brothers album The Electric Spanking of War Babies. The first band Roger was in was THE CRUSADERS. The band played in Cincinnati and recorded a 45 record Busted Surfboard and Seminole. The band members were Rick Schoeny, Roy Beck, Dave Spitzmiller, and Denny Niebold. Troutman had formed various other bands with his four brothers, including Little Roger and the Vels and Roger and the Human Body. In 1977, he and the Human Body issued their first single, Freedom. Within two years, Roger and his brothers were discovered by George Clinton, who signed the newly christened Zapp to his Uncle Jam Records label in 1979. The original line-up consisted of Roger Troutman, Larry Troutman, Lester Troutman, Terry Troutman, Gregory Jackson and Bobby Glover. Zapp made their professional television debut on the first and only Funk Music Awards show. A year later, as Uncle Jam Records was forced to close, Zapp signed to Warner Bros. Records and released their self-titled debut, which yielded the Bootsy Collins produced & Troutman-composed hit, More Bounce to the Ounce. The song peaked at number two on the Billboard Soul Singles chart in the fall of 1980. The debut album reached the top 20 of the Billboard 200 and firmly launched Zapp and Roger into the national spotlight.Between 1980 and 1985, Zapp released the gold-selling albums Zapp, Zapp II, Zapp III and The New Zapp IV U and released top ten R&B hit singles such as Be Alright, Dance Floor, I Can Make You Dance, Heartbreaker, It Doesnt Really Matter – which was a tribute to black artists of the past and present, and the Charlie Wilson and Shirley Murdock-assisted funk ballad, Computer Love. Zapps hit making magic faded shortly after the release of their fifth album, Zapp Vibe, in 1989. Throughout Zapps tenure, the original lineup grew to around fifteen. In 1993, the group scored their biggest-selling album when a compilation album, Zapp & Roger: All the Greatest Hits, was released, featuring remixed cuts of Rogers solo singles and featuring the new single Slow and Easy as well as Mega Medley, which put together a collection of the groups hit singles in a remix. The album sold over two million copies giving the collective their most successful album to date. After the untimely death of Roger and Larry, the remaining brothers have stepped forward with the album, Zapp VI: Back By Popular Demand in 2002.Solo career and production work on other artistsIn 1981, upon the fast-paced success of Zapps first album, Troutman cut his first solo album, The Many Facets of Roger. Featuring his frenetic funk cover of Marvin Gayes I Heard It Through the Grapevine, the song exploded to number one on the R&B singles chart helping the album sell over a million copies. The album also featured the hit, So Ruff, So Tuff, which was similar to More Bounce… as were most Roger/Zapp singles during this time. In 1984, Troutman issued his second solo album, The Saga Continues, which featured the singles Girl Cut It Out, Its in the Mix – which was dedicated to Soul Train and its host Don Cornelius in one verse, and a cover of Wilson Picketts In the Midnight Hour, which featured gospel group The Mighty Clouds of Joy. In 1987, Troutman scored his most successful solo album with Unlimited!, which featured the massive hit, I Want to Be Your Man, which rose to number one R&B and number three on the Billboard Hot 100.Alongside his successful careers as Zapp member and solo star, Troutman also became a hands-on producer and writer for other artists including Shirley Murdock, whose 1985 platinum debut featured the Roger-produced hit, As We Lay. He also produced for Zapp member Dale DeGroat on his solo efforts. In 1988, Troutman made an appearance on Scritti Polittis third album Provision, providing talk box vocals on the songs Boom There She Was and Sugar and Spice. Three years later, Troutman released his final solo album with Bridging the Gap, featuring the hit Everybody (Get Up). He worked with Elvis Costello as a guest appearance on 1991s Mighty Like a Rose on the song The Other Side of Summer. In 1989, NBA Entertainment selected Troutman among a variety of renowned candidates to record a tribute song called Im So Happy for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who at the time was in the final year of his record-breaking, 20-year career in the NBA.Career re-emergenceAfter the release of All the Greatest Hits, Roger and Zapp existed primarily as a touring group, recording only sporadically. Troutman was starting to be featured on hip-hop songs by this time agreeing to appear on rapper Snoop Doggs 1993 debut, Doggystyle. In 1995 he was featured on Eazy-Es posthumous album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton on the last track, Eternal E, along with DJ Yella. The same year Troutman agreed to enlist vocals on 2Pac and Dr. Dres single, California Love. The song became Troutmans biggest-selling and most successful single to date as the song reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 and sold over two million copies giving Troutman a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group. This success led to Troutman being included in a top ten R&B hit cover of The Persuaders Thin Line Between Love and Hate, which he produced and enlisted the talk box alongside Shirley Murdock and R&B group H-Town. The A Thin Line Between Love and Hate movie soundtrack also included a club hit Chocolate City. In 1998, he appeared in a remix version of Sounds of Blackness Hold On (A Change Is Coming), which sampled Zapps Doo-Wah Ditty (Blow That Thing). Throughout the 1990s, Roger was promoted heavily by Timothy Olague Entertainment in shows at emerging Indian Casinos in Arizona and California. Rogers last recorded guest feature was on the song Master of The Game from rapper Kool Keiths Album Black Elvis/Lost In Space.DeathOn the morning of April 25, 1999, Roger Troutman was found shot and critically wounded outside his northwest Dayton recording studio around 7 a.m. According to doctors, the 47-year-old had been shot several times in the torso and listed in critical condition. Roger died during surgery at Good Samaritan Hospital and Health Center. Rogers brother Larry was found dead in a car a few blocks away with a single gunshot wound to the head. A pistol was found inside the vehicle, which matched the description of a car leaving the scene of Roger Troutmans shooting according to witnesses. The gun found with Larry Troutman also matched the one that fired the fatal shots into Roger, suggesting that Larry had shot Roger and then taken his own life. With both men dead, and with no known witnesses, the specific motive for the attack remains unknown. Friends and family could only speculate that the source of a dispute was a rising tension between the brothers over issues such as Larrys financial troubles and Rogers desire to dissolve their business partnership.Troutman, who lived 24 years in the Dayton area, was survived by 6 sons: Roger Lynch (January 31, 1970 – January 22, 2003), Callie Williams, Larry Gates, Lester Gates, Brent Lynch, Ryan Stevens and Taji J. Troutman, 5 daughters: Daun Shazier, Hope Shazier, Summer Gates, Mia Paris Collins, Gene Nicole Anderson, 9 grandchildren, among them are: Lonnie Allen Wright III, Lara Thomas, Joy Love, Ruth Love and Samuel Williams.
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