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What Is Joss Stone's Net Worth?
Joss Stone is a singer/songwriter and actress who has a net worth of $6 million. Joss Stone has won two BRIT awards and a Grammy, and she has released the studio albums "The Soul Sessions" (2003), "Mind Body & Soul" (2004), "Introducing Joss Stone" (2007), "Colour Me Free!" (2009), "LP1" (2011), "The Soul Sessions Vol. 2" (2012), "Water for Your Soul" (2015), "Never Forget My Love" (2022), and "Merry Christmas, Love" (2022). Her first two albums were certified 3× Platinum in the U.K. and went Platinum or higher in several countries. "Mind Body & Soul" reached #1 on the UK Albums Chart. Joss is known for singles such as "Fell in Love with a Boy," "You Had Me," and "Tell Me 'bout It" as well as her Grammy-winning cover of Sly & the Family Stone's "Family Affair" (withJohn LegendandVan Hunt). As an actress, Stone had recurring roles as Anne of Cleves on "The Tudors" (2009–2010) and Wynter on "Empire" (2018–2019), and she has appeared in the film "Eragon" (2006), the TV movie "Tomorrow" (2018), and the television series "American Dreams" (2005) and "Grace and Frankie" (2015). In 2021, Joss won "The Masked Singer UK" disguised as "Sausage." Stone has sold more than 15 million albums, and in 2006, she was the youngest woman on the "Sunday Times'" list of the U.K.'s richest people.
"It all went when I left EMI. I was flat even, down to nothing. I wasn't even down to a million in the bank… What I had left was my house and three flats in Exeter and that was it. Money is the thing that people hold over you, but to me it was just cotton balls. Don't let it suffocate you. Don't let yourself need it that much. I just thought, 'I'm free. I'll go out and play some gigs and earn my living.'"
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Stone's net worth was once as high as $10 million, but in a 2012 interview, she revealed that she spent her entire fortune buying herself out of her contract with the record company EMI. She claimed that she used nearly 100% of her net worth to purchase her own career freedom. Joss added:
Joss Stone was born Joscelyn Eve Stoker on April 11, 1987, in Dover, Kent, England. She is the daughter of Wendy and Richard Stoker, and she has three siblings, Lucy, Harry, and Daniel. Richard is the owner of a company that imports and exports fruits and nuts, and Wendy served as Joss' manager until the fall of 2004. When Stone was a teenager, her family lived in a small village near Cullompton in Devon. Joss attended the Uffculme Comprehensive School, and her first public performance took place there when she played a cover of the 1957Jackie Wilsonsong "Reet Petite." Joss is dyslexic, and she left high school when she was 16 with three GCSE (General Certificate of Secondary Education) qualifications. During her youth, Stone listened to artists such asAretha Franklinand Dusty Springfield, and during an interview with MTV News, she stated, "I kind of clicked into soul more than anything else because of the vocals. You've got to have good vocals to sing soul music, and I always liked it, ever since I was little."
In 2001, 13-year-old Joss auditioned for the BBC talent competition "Star for a Night" with Aretha Franklin's "(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman" andWhitney Houston's"It's Not Right but It's Okay." She was accepted into the competition and was eventually named the winner. Stone also won "Steps to the Stars," and after performing on a charity show, she was signed to S-Curve Records, which had a distribution deal with EMI. She released her debut album, "The Soul Sessions," in 2003, and it reached #1 on the UK R&B Albums chart and Greek International Albums chart and #4 on the UK Albums, Austrian Albums, Dutch Albums, European Albums, German Albums, and Norwegian Albums charts. The album was certified 3× Platinum in the U.K. and Platinum in seven countries. The singles "Fell in Love with a Boy" and "Super Duper Love" reached #18 on the UK Singles Chart. Joss followed her successful debut with 2004's "Mind Body & Soul," which topped the UK Albums Chart and reached the top 10 in more than a dozen other countries. The album went 3× Platinum in the U.S. and Platinum in Argentina, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, and the U.S., and the single "You Had Me" was a top 10 hit in the U.K.
Her third album, 2007's "Introducing Joss Stone," reached the top 10 on numerous charts and was certified Platinum in Switzerland. The single "Tell Me 'bout It" peaked at #2 on Belgium's Ultratip Bubbling Under Flanders chart, #5 on the U.S. "Billboard" Adult Alternative Songs chart and the Netherlands' Single Top 100 chart, and #6 on the UK Hip Hop/R&B chart. In 2009, Joss released the album "Colour Me Free!," and it reached #5 on the Swiss Albums chart, #9 on the "Billboard" Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, and #10 on the "Billboard" 200 chart and UK R&B Albums chart. Around this time, she teamed up withSmokey Robinsonfor the 2009 single "You're the One for Me" and withJeff Beckfor the 2010 single "I Put a Spell on You." Stone's 2011 album "LP1" reached #1 on the Australian Jazz & Blues Albums chart, #2 on the "Billboard" Independent Albums chart and the Swiss Albums chart, and #3 on the "Billboard" Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Next, she released 2012's "The Soul Sessions Vol. 2," which reached #1 on the Australian Jazz & Blues Albums chart, #2 on the Dutch Albums chart, and #3 on the "Billboard" Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart and UK R&B Albums chart. The 2015 album "Water for Your Soul" topped the "Billboard" Reggae Albums chart, UK Independent Albums chart, and Swiss Albums chart, and 2022's "Never Forget My Love" reached #1 on the UK R&B Albums chart. In 2022, Joss also released her first holiday album, "Merry Christmas, Love," which reached #46 on the "Billboard" Top Holiday Albums chart.
Ultimately, Joss Stone's financial journey is a testament to their success.
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