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Puff Daddy

Sean Combs
Sean Combs 2010.jpg
Combs performing in December 2010
Born Sean John Combs
(1969-11-04) November 4, 1969 (age 47)
Harlem, New York City, U.S.
Other names
  • Diddy
  • P. Diddy
  • Puff Daddy
  • Puffy
  • Puff
Occupation
  • Rapper
  • singer
  • songwriter
  • actor
  • record producer
  • entrepreneur
Years active 1990–present
Salary $60 million
Net worth Increase $750 million (2016)
Children 6
Website puffdaddyandthefamily.com
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Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969), also known by his stage names Puff Daddy, P. Diddy and Diddy, is an American rapper, singer, songwriter, actor, record producer and entrepreneur. He was born in Harlem and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. He worked as a talent director at Uptown Records before founding his label Bad Boy Entertainment in 1993. His debut album No Way Out (1997) has been certified seven times platinum and was followed by successful albums such as Forever (1999), The Saga Continues... (2001), and Press Play (2006). In 2009 Combs formed the musical group Diddy – Dirty Money and released the critically well-reviewed and commercially successful album Last Train to Paris (2010).

Combs has won three Grammy Awards and two MTV Video Music Awards, and is the producer of MTV's Making the Band. His non-music business ventures include the clothing lines Sean John and "Sean by Sean Combs" – for which he earned a Council of Fashion Designers of America award – a movie production company, and two restaurants. In 2016 Forbes estimated Combs' net worth at $750 million.

Sean John Combs was born in Harlem in Manhattan, New York City, and was raised in Mount Vernon, New York. His mother, Janice (Smalls), was a model and teacher's assistant and his father, Melvin Earl Combs, 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 was a child.


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