Travis Barker Net Worth: In Santa Barbara, Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker Legally Tie the Knot!

Travis Barker Net Worth: Travis Landon Barker is a California-based musician, composer, and record producer. Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker is most recognized for his work with the band.

He was a frequent collaborator with DJ AM, and the two established TRV$DJAM together. Rolling Stone dubbed him “punk’s first superstar drummer” and one of the “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” due to his celebrity.

Early Life and Education of Travis Barker

Travis Barker was born in Fontana, California, on November 14, 1975, as Travis Landon Barker. He was raised by his mother Gloria (a babysitter), his father Randy (a mechanic), and two elder sisters.

Travis Barker Net Worth

Barker received a drum kit from his mother when he was four years old, and he began training the following year. Travis also took trumpet lessons and learned to play the piano in junior high before briefly joining a chorus.

He pondered pursuing a career as a professional surfer or skateboarder, but he decided that playing the drums was the greatest way for him to express himself.

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Barker’s mother passed away from Sjögren disease just before his freshman year of high school. Travis was a self-described stoner who played drums in the marching band and jazz ensemble at Fontana High School.

Career of Travis Barker

Travis Barker worked as a trash man after high school until he earned a brief spot with the punk band The Aquabats. He recorded his first album with The Aquabats in 1997.

Barker’s first break came in 1998, when he was called in to fill in on drums for the punk rock band Blink-182. His drumming abilities were revealed when he not only learned the drum patterns for 20 songs in 45 minutes, but also played them flawlessly and with poise.

He recorded music for transplants, a rap/rock band, in addition to his work with Blink-182. He also starred in one of Puff Daddy’s videos, ‘Bad Boy for Life,’ and contributed to Dave Carlock’s band, The Distillers.

Blink-182 began work on their next album in 2003. Surprisingly, they skipped the traditional recording process in favor of converting a house into a studio.

They launched their fifth self-titled album, ‘Blink-182’, after months of hard effort. The album’s tracks ‘Feeling This’ and ‘I Miss You’ reached the top of the Billboard charts.

The band finally disbanded in 2005, announcing an “indefinite pause.” Aside from his musical ambitions, he owns ‘Famous Stars and Straps,’ a clothing and accessories firm, ‘LaSalle Records,’ and a restaurant in California called ‘Wahoo’s Fish Taco.’

What is Travis Barker’s Net Worth?

Travis Barker net worth is $50 million dollar American drummer, musician, and reality television celebrity. Barker is most known for playing drums in Blink-182.

Travis Barker Net Worth

But he has also starred on MTV’s “Meet the Barkers,” written a memoir, and started a fashion brand and a record label.

“Enema of the State,” Blink-182’s most popular album, has sold over 15 million copies, and Travis was named to “Rolling Stone” magazine’s “100 Greatest Drummers of All Time” list in 2016.

Travis was a passenger on a private plane that crashed in South Carolina on takeoff in 2008. Four persons were killed.q

Travis and DJ AM were seriously hurt, with Barker suffering 65 percent body burns. He underwent 27 procedures and spent four months in the hospital rehabilitating.

Personal Life of Travis Barker

In 2001, Travis married Melissa Kennedy, but the pair divorced nine months later. On October 30, 2004, he married former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, a year after their son Landon was born.

Alabama (born in December 2005) is their daughter, and Moakler has a daughter from a prior relationship with Oscar De La Hoya.

In 2005 and 2006, the family appeared in the reality show “Meet the Barkers,” which aired 16 episodes. In 2008, Barker and Moakler divorced.

Travis and Shanna were both arrested in 2014 when police were called to their shared residence. Barker allegedly threatened to murder Moakler, and she allegedly threatened to have her boyfriend assault Travis.

Travis submitted legal filings in February 2016, demanding a reduction in his $19,000 monthly child support to $2,900, stating that his annual income had plummeted from roughly $2 million to around $600,000.

Barker’s net worth was estimated to be at $40 million in the filing. Following splitting up with Moakler, Barker became hooked on opioids, but he overcame his addiction after his plane disaster.

He also attributes the plane crash to making him more health-conscious; after leaving the hospital, he resumed daily swimming and running, as well as adopting a vegan diet.

He had been a vegetarian since his teenage years but had to consume meat while in the hospital to expedite his recovery.

Travis Barker Plane crash

On September 19, 2008, while taking off from Columbia Metropolitan Airport in Columbia, South Carolina, a private plane carrying Travis, Adam Goldstein (aka DJ AM), security guard Che Still.

And personal assistant Chris Baker crashed into an embankment and detonated. Still, Baker, and two other pilots were murdered, and Barker and Goldstein were flown to Augusta, Georgia’s Joseph M. Still Burn Center.

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During his four months in burn centers and hospitals, Barker underwent 27 surgeries and skin grafts due to burns on more than 65 percent of his body.

Travis Barker Net Worth

Travis, unsurprisingly, refused to fly again for more than a decade following the incident. As a result, whenever Blink-182 played outside the United States, he had to be replaced. In 2021, 13 years after the incident, he flew for the first time with Kourtney Kardashian.

Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker Legally Tie Knot Together in Santa Barbara!

On Sunday, reality star Kourtney Kardashian married rock drummer Travis Barker in Santa Barbara, California. Kourtney Kardashian and Travis Barker, according to People Magazine, said “I do” on April 4 following a “wedding practice” in Las Vegas.

The pair married lawfully in Santa Barbara in front of a few close friends and family members. In October 2021, Kardashian (43) and Barker (46) were engaged on a beach in Montecito, California.

The Blink-182 rocker got down on one knee after the couple had been dating for less than a year. According to People Magazine, the scene was videotaped for ‘The Kardashians’ people on Hulu.

Followed by a surprise meal for a family of two. Kylie Jenner, Kardashian’s younger sister, was unable to attend the wedding.

Instead, she accompanied her partner Travis Scott and daughter Stormi Webster to the 2022 Billboard Music Awards. Kylie Jenner, Kardashian’s younger sister, was unable to attend the wedding.

Instead, she accompanied her partner Travis Scott and daughter Stormi Webster to the 2022 Billboard Music Awards.

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