Ernest Joseph Anastasio III was born on 30 September 1964, in Fort Worth, Texas USA, and is a singer, song-writer and guitarist, perhaps best known as a member of the band Phish. Moreover, Anastasio net worth has also rise through his solo career including with the Trey Anastasio Band.
So just how rich is Trey Anastasio? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that Trey’s net worth reaches more than $75 million, as of mid-2016, largely through his career in the music industry now spanning well over 30 years.
Trey Anastasio Net Worth $75 Million
Together with the sister, Trey was raised in Princeton, New Jersey, and matriculated from Taft School, before enrolling at University of Vermont in 1983 to study philosophy. However, Trey Anastasio opened his net worth that year by forming the band Phish, together with Page McConnell, Jon Fishman and Mike Gordon. He later transferred to Goddard College, where associates taught him musical composition, which encouraged him to write songs.
The band played consistently, but didn’t rise to prominence until 1993, and was then active ’til 2004. Phish members reunited again in 2008 and are active up to the present. Phish has released 16 studio albums, 12 live albums, a compilation album, 21 singles, and 11 video albums which have undoubtedly increased Trey’s and other members of Phish’s net worth. The albums ‘Lawn Boy’ (1990), ‘A Picture of Nectar’ (1992), ‘Rift’ (1993), ‘Hoist’ (1994), ‘Billy Breathes’ (1996), ‘Hampton Comes Alive’ (1999) and ‘Round Room’ (2002) were certified gold in the US. The albums entitled ‘Junta’ (1989) and ‘A Live One’ (1995) received platinum certification in US.
From 1999 to 2004, Trey increased his net worth as a leader of the Trey Anastasio Band, with backing musicians Russ Lawton, Tony Markellis, Dave Grippo, Andy Moroz, Jennifer Hartswick, Russell Remington, Ray Paczkowsk, Cyro Baptista and Peter Apfelbaum. As a solo artist, Anastasio has added to his net worth since 1996, having released 10 studio albums, three live albums and four EPs up to date.
In addition to this, he is a well known professional composer: his musical ‘Hands on a Hardbody’ was nominated for a Tony Award which needless to mention increased Trey Anastasio’s net worth a lot. As a composer, he won the Dramatist Guild Frederick Loewe award in 2013. Along with these other compositions, Trey has composed more than a hundred and fifty Phish songs. He is known as an alternative rock, jazz fusion, rock, progressive rock, classical, bluegrass, funk, blues musician.
Added to his vocal and guitar abilities, Trey also plays the piano, percussion, keyboard, pan flute, fiddle and tin whistle. He has worked with such record labels as Elektra, Rubber Jungle, Sony, JEMP, Sony BMG, and MapleMusic Recordings.
Trey Anastasio has been nominated for a Tony award and other significant awards and honours.
In his personal life, Trey Anastasio has been married to Susan Eliza Statesir since 1994, and they have two daughters. He owns a personal website http://trey.com/ where fans and music lovers are able to read the latest news, check tour dates, read the statistics of the albums and singles, listen to some pieces of music, get acquainted with the projects of the bands, and merchandise the stuff related to Trey Anastasio.
