Lyfe Jennings Biography

Lyfe Jennings is an American R&B and soul singer-songwriter, record producer, and instrumentalist. The New York Times mentioned him as a socially minded R&B singer. He is best known for the singles Must Be Nice and SEX. In September 2010, she pleaded guilty to multiple charges including refusal to take a DUI test and possession of firearms by a convicted felon. The incident led to three and a half years in prison.

Early life of Lyfe Jennings

Lyfe Jennings was born Chester Jermaine Jennings on June 3, 1978 in Toledo, Ohio, United States of America to a working-class family. He has four siblings and is the middle of four siblings.

At a very young age, he lost his father as said in his songs. Ghetto Superman and More Than a Girl since The Phoenix. At the age of 14, she went to prison due to legal problems. She served 10 years in prison for the crime of arson.

Lyfe Jennings’ career

Jennings began his singing career when he was a teenager. He began performing with the group called Los Dotsons which included himself, his brother and two of his cousins. At this time he got into legal trouble and his musical career came to a halt.

After serving 10 years in prison, in 2002 he returned to his musical ambitions. In December 2002, after getting out of jail, she recorded a four song demo CD. After a month of her song’s release, she performed at the Apollo. During her residency at Apollo, she sold 1,000 copies of her four-song demo CD.

His success in singing career led him to move to New York City and seek a major label deal. In August 2004 he released his debut album From Him Lyfe 268-192. He reissued his debut album with a new version of Hypothetically United as a bonus track with American Idol winner Fantasia .

In August 2006, the hip-hop oriented follow-up arrived. The Phoenix with Three 6 Mafia and Young Buck as guest appearances. The album spawned the hit SEX. which ultimately became their highest charting single at the time. Jennings on April 29, 2008, released an album, Lyfe Shift collaborated with some of the top hip-hop artists involving T.I. , Snoop Dogg , Wyclef Jean.

Jennings then signed a new contract with Warner Bros and I started working on another album Sooner or Later and released it in August 2010. On this album, he featured artists like Warryn Campbell, Bobby Valentino, Fabolous, Bryan-Michael Cox, Ludacris , Jazmine Sullivan and Anthony Hamilton.

He then completed another prison job for his acts stemming from a domestic dispute in 2008. And in October 2013 he returned with Lúcido released on the Mass Appeal label which topped the Top 10 on Billboard’s R&B chart. In June 2015 she came up with a new album called Lyfe Tree which reaffirms the purposes for which people started to love music in the first place.

Lyfe Jennings Net Worth

Lyfe Jennings, a soul vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, has raised a great deal of money from his singing career. She is estimated to have a net worth of $500 thousand dollars however the exact amount is not public. Her main source of income and earnings comes from her singing career.

Personal Life of Lyfe Jennings, Wife

Lyfe Jennings has seven children in total. With Jennings’ ex-girlfriend and former manager, Joy Boundaries he shares two sons named Phoenix Roy Jennings born in 2005 and Elijah Jennings born in 2006.

Similarly, with Jennings’ ex-girlfriend, who is also his early childhood educator. Anita Priestley , has a daughter named Liyah Jennings born in October 2008. In addition to this with another ex-girlfriend and actress/ stuntwoman Marquita Goings, they have a son named Lyfe Michael Jennings born in February 2011.

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Their youngest son, Knoah Mendoza , was born in January 2016, to ex-girlfriend and model India Mendoza.

It was discovered that Jennings was secretly married to a woman named Gwen Scharkowski which did not last long. Scharkowski filed for divorce in Georgia for adultery. With her, he has a son for whom Jennings demanded a DNA test which confirmed the child was his. His second child was born in April 2018. MTO News confirmed that Jennings plays a very active role in the lives of all of his children. As of 2018, he is single.

In October 2008, according to the Marietta Daily Journal, Jennings had argued with Joy Bounds and he smashed the door to her residence and fired shots into the street, then led police on a 90 mph chase that ended when he crashed his 2005 Corvette. Then in 2010, he was sentenced to 3 1/2 years on multiple felony charges. He was found guilty of multiple charges stemming from the incident.

body measurements

Height: 1.93 m (6 ft 3 in)