Pete Wentz is a singer, songwriter, and instrumentalist who rose to fame as the lead singer of the rock band, Fall Out Boy. Prior to the band, he was a member of the metalcore band, Arma Angelus, and then the Black Cards. A highly successful singer, Wentz who has had many challenges in his life is also a writer and philanthropist.
Pete Wentz – Biography,
Although he is better known as Pete Wentz, the singer was born Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz III in 1979 in Wilmette, Illinois. Of English and German descent, he was raised alongside his younger siblings, Hillary and Andrew.
For his education, Wentz attended New Trier High School and then went to North Shore Country Day School. Although music was his first love, he was also an athlete while growing up, playing football in school and becoming an all-star. At one point he considered a career in sports but later decided to become more fulfilled as a singer.
In his early high school days, Wentz reportedly skipped school with friends to smoke marijuana, but because he realized it was affecting his grade, he decided to quit. After high school, he went to DePaul University, where he studied political science but did not graduate. He decided to drop out shortly before finishing his studies to devote himself to his musical career within the group Fall Out Boy.
Prior to joining the band, Pete Wentz was first involved with various hardcore punk bands in the 1990s, such as the first born in 1993, Indy hardcore band Birthright, Extinction, Arma Angelus, The Yellow Road Priest and Racetraitor . Nevertheless, it was with the Fall Out Boy that he formed with Joe Trohman that he came to fame.
The band released an EP, Fall Out Boy/Project Rocket Split EP in 2002 and then Take This to Your Grave in 2003. Since then, they have released 6 more albums with the most recent, The Mania, in 2018. From 2010 to 2012 when the band went on hiatus, Wentz formed and became part of the Black Cards along with others like Bebe Rexha, Nate Patterson and Spencer Peterson.
Although, as pointed out, he has enjoyed massive success as a singer, he also has health issues caused by bipolar disorder which he has suffered from since he was 18 years old. He attempted suicide in 2015 by taking an overdose of Ativan, an anti-anxiety drug. After the incident, he spent a week in hospital.
Parents, wife and children
Pete’s parents are Peter Lewis Kingston Wentz II and Dale Wentz. While her father was a lawyer, her mother was a high school admissions counselor. They are said to have met in the 1970s during an election campaign for former Vice President Joe Biden, a candidate for the Senate.
At the MTV VMAs in 2006, Pete Wentz met singer, Ashlee Simpson and soon after they started dating. In 2008, she was seen wearing a diamond ring which she revealed was a promise from Wentz. A few months later, the pair announced their engagement to wed less than a month after confirming their engagement in May 2018.
Bronx Mowgli is the couple’s first child. Per Ashly in November 2008. Although Wentz thought his marriage was going to be forever, his parents having stayed together, it wasn’t to be as Ashlee filed for divorce from Wentz in 2010 for reasons irreconcilable differences. The divorce was finalized in the same year.
He had another relationship with model Meagan Camper in the fall of 2011. In 2014, they announced on Instagram that they were expecting their first child together. The child came under the name of Saint-Lazar in August of the same year. The next time they took to Instagram to announce they were expecting a child was in January 2018, and in May Camper gave birth to their second child, Marvel Jane Wentz. Although the couple live happily with their children, there is no talk of marriage yet.
Net value
Having come a long way as a musician, Pete Wentza has both fame and fortune to show for all his hard work. That said, his net worth has been estimated at $16 million. He made much of his fortune from his music career.
the size
Wentz is not necessarily the tallest musician you will find as he only stands at a height of 167.6cm (5ft 6). His body weight is 67 kg.
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