What Is Chappell Roan's Net Worth?
Chappell Roan is an American singer and songwriter who has a net worth of $6 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. She is the Dwight and Kara Amstutz. Her father was a registered nurse, and her mother was a veterinarian. Chappell was the youngest of four children and was raised 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 to be unsuccessful for her.
At the age of 15, Roan began posting original music videos of herself on YouTube. Her song "Die Young" attracted the attention of several record label executives, and at the age of 17, she was signed by Atlantic Records.
Early Rise & Fall of Fame
Chappell decided to change her name after she was contracted as a professional singer to honor her grandfather. Dennis Chappell had died of brain cancer the previous year, and his favorite song had been "The Strawberry Roan" by cowboy composer Curley Fletcher.
In 2017, Chappell released her debut album "School Nights." The following year, she relocated to Los Angeles, where she began to live openly as a homosexual woman. For three months in 2018, she toured with English singer and songwriter Declan Benedict McKenna.
In April 2020, Roan released the single "Pink Pony Club," which was inspired by The Abbey, a gay bar in West Hollywood. The newspaper "USA Today" rated the song #3 on its list of "The Ten Best Songs of 2020." By August 2022, the song had been streamed on Spotify over ten million times.
Chappell's next two releases in 2020, "Love Me Anyway" and "California," were not as successful as Atlantic Records had hoped, and they decided to drop her from the label that August. That year, Roan was diagnosed as suffering from the mood disorder bipolar II. She moved back home to Missouri, where she gained employment at a drive-through and independently worked on her music.
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Getting Back Up
In 2022, Chappell moved back to Los Angeles and continued working on her music independently while employed as a production assistant and as a barista in a donut shop. In March of that year, she signed a publishing deal with Sony Music Entertainment and released the song "Naked in Manhattan," described as "queer girl bop" by National Public Radio. She was soon chosen as the opening act for American pop singers Olivia Rodrigo and Fletcher on their upcoming tours.
In 2023, Roan went out on her first headlining tour, "Naked in North America." She chose drag queens as her opening acts. Later that year, she signed with Amusement Records, an imprint of Jamaican multinational record label Island Records. Chappell's first full-length album, "The Rise and Fall of a Midwest Princess," was released that September, and she set out on her second headlining tour, "The Midwest Princess Tour." She donated one dollar from each ticket sold to the non-profit "For the Gworls," a black, trans-led collective that curates parties to help black transgender people pay for their gender-affirming surgeries, medicines, doctor visits, travel expenses, and rent.
The album made it onto several lists of the best albums of the year, including those in "TIME" magazine, "Rolling Stone," "Billboard" and "Vogue."
In 2024, Roan was the opening act on 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 that year, Chappell 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, was listed on Spotify's Top Ten list, and debuted at #77 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 list. Later that month, Roan performed at the Coachella music festival in Indio, California. By June, "Good Luck, Babe!" would reach "Billboard's" Top Ten charts.
Music Festivals
On June 9, 2024, Roan announced that she had declined an invitation to perform at the White House during the annual Pride celebration. She explained that issues concerning transgender rights and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict were the reasons he had no interest in taking part in the White House celebration, as she did not believe that liberty, justice, and freedom for all currently existed.
Later that year, Chappell performed at the Governor's Ball Music Festival, the Boston Calling Music Festival, and the Bonnaroo Music Festival in Manchester, Tennessee. Her set had to be moved to a larger performance area to handle the large attendance.
At the 2024 Lollapalooza Festival, Roan performed to an absolutely enormous crowd. Perhaps one of the largest crowds in the history of the festival. And she wasn't even a headliner.
It's Chappell's world and we're just living in it pic.twitter.com/8HbNS2eeYS
— Lollapalooza (@lollapalooza) August 2, 2024
Inspirations
Chappell counts English singer and songwriter Kate Bush among her musical influences, as well as musical performers Stevie Nicks, Lorde, and Lana Del Ray. Her make-up, clothing, and hairstyles, she has explained, are inspired primarily by drag queens and often reference horror movies and burlesque or some other combination of "pretty and scary."
Personal Life
While Chappell has dated both men and women in the past, she has announced that she no longer dates men and identifies strictly as a lesbian.
