Sean Combs
Sean John Combs, also known as Puff Daddy, Puffy, or Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, entrepreneur, and actor. His debut album, No Way Out, was released on July 1, 1997, through Bad Boy Records. In 2009, Combs formed the musical group Dirty Money and released the critically and commercially successful album Last Train to Paris. He has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards.
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Sean John Combs, also known as Puff Daddy, Puffy, or Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, record producer, record executive, entrepreneur, and actor. Combs was born in New York City but was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his own record label, Bad Boy Entertainment, in 1993. In 2009, Combs formed the musical group Dirty Money and released the critically and commercially successful album Last Train to Paris. He also produced and cultivated artists such as Mary J. Blige and The Notorious B. I. G. Combs has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and is the producer of MTV’s Making the Band. In 2019, Forbes estimated his net worth at USD 740 million. His debut album, No Way Out, was released on July 1, 1997, through Bad Boy Records. The album was the first rap album to debut at number one on the Billboard Hot 100; it remained at the top of the chart for eleven consecutive weeks. In 1997, under the name PuffDaddy, he recorded his first commercial vocal work as a rapper. He was a business major at Howard University but left after his sophomore year. In 2014, he returned to Howard University to receive an Honorary Doctorate in Humanities and deliver the University’s 146th Commencement Address.
His father, Melvin Earl Combs,. served in the U.S. Air Force and was an associate of convicted New York drug dealer Frank Lucas. At age 33, Melvin was shot to death while sitting in his car on Central Park West, when Combs were 2 years old. His mother, Janice, was a model and teacher’s assistant and his father was a former model and model. He has three children with his wife, Jodeci, and a daughter with his ex-wife, Tanya. He has two step-children with his second wife, Toni, and one step-son with his third wife, Gisele Bündchen. He is the father of two sons, Diddy Jr. and D’Lil, who was born on November 4, 1969 in Manhattan’s Harlem. His son, Darryl, is the son of former New York Mayor Michael J. Bloomberg and ex-New York City Mayor Michael Zuckerman. His daughter, LZ Granderson, has a son with ex-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio, and daughter-in-law Yolanda, who lives in Los Angeles. In 2011, he released his first solo album, Forever, which has been certified seven times platinum. In 2012, he had his second No. 1 single, “Can’t Nobody Hold Me Down”, which spent 28 weeks on the billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 1. In 2013, he produced five singles: “I’ll Be Missing You,” “I Want You Back” and “I Don’t Wanna Be Loved,” and “Lonely,” which reached No. 2.
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