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Carlos Vives Net Worth
Carlos Alberto Vives Restrepo, known as Carlos Vives, is a Colombian singer, composer, and actor with a net worth of $9 million. He is a Grammy Award winner and seven-time Latin Grammy Award-winning artist. Vives joined several bands and participated in theater before graduating from Jorge Tadeo Lozano University with a publicist degree. He formed a band called La Provincia and began performing a local style known as vallenato, successfully touring his native country and South America. In 1991, he was offered a television role that would change his life, the leading role of a fantasy series based on the life of vallenato composer Rafael Escalona, called Escalona.
Vives’ latest album was released in April 2013 and featured 11 tracks out of the 40 songs written that year. The first single, Volví a Nacer, was released in September 2012 and went straight to No. 1 on Billboard charts. The second single, Como Le Gusta a Tu Cuerpo, featuring Michel Teló, was released in late January 2013. Vives also appeared on the small screen in Colombia when he joined fellow artists Ricardo Montaner, Fanny Lu, and Andrés Cepeda as a coach on Season 1 of the vocal competition series phenomenon The Voice Colombia, which premiered October 2012.
Vives was married to the famous Colombian actress Margarita Rosa de Francisco, Herlinda Gómez (with whom he had two children), and is now married to former Miss Colombia Claudia Elena Vásquez, with whom he has two children. Carlos Vives splits his time between Miami and Colombia, mainly in Santa Marta and Bogotá.
