Table of Biography
Sully Erna, primely well renowned as the vocalist and rhythm guitarist for the multi-platinum-selling post-grunge band Godsmack is an American musician. Sully Erna is also a successful producer, actor, and multi-instrumentalist.
Early Life and Childhood
Sully Erna was born on February 7, 1968. His birthplace is Lawrence, Massachusetts, United States. Currently, Erna’s age is 54 years old. His zodiac sign is Aquarius.
Caption: Sully Erna along with his dad, Salvator Erna (Instagram)
Moreover, Erna’s real birth name is Salvatore Paul Erna Jr. His father’s name is Salvatore Erna and his mother’s name is Connie Erna. He also has a brother whose name is Carlo and an older sister named Maria.
Talking about his father’s profession, he was a trumpet player and would practice in the basement where he would watch and fall asleep in an empty guitar case.
Moreover, Erna started playing drums at the age of three. And by 11, he had already begun to shun sheet music, choosing instead to play by ear.
Talking about his educational background, there is no authentic source of detailed information regarding his educational status.
Moreover, his education faculty, completion year, and other details are also unknown.
Sully Erna – Net Worth 2024
Sully Erna has gained all his wealth from the singing and songwriting that he has been doing for all these years. His aggregate net worth is around $ 16 million as of August 2023.
However, he hasn’t shared his salary, brand endorsements, asset values, cars, houses, and so on.
However, his annual, as well as monthly salary, has not been revealed. Similarly, his status of fixed property and carsise also not mentioned.
But his financial status sounds well and through analyzing his fame it seems that he has good earnings from his profession.
Relationship Status
Talking about his personal life, Erna is currently married. He married his wife, Joanna Wortham, on 24 April 2014, in a cherished wedding ceremony.
The couplehas beens together for a long time and is still happy with no sign of rumors of divorce.
Caption: Sully Erna along with his son, Skylar Brooke (Instagram)
Meanwhile, Sully Ernahas beens in a relationship with an area GodSmack Groupie, Jennifer Cabezon since 2001.
Less than one week into their relationship, she became pregnant with the couple’s only child(daughter), Skylar Brooke.Thee duo never engaged or got married but became apart in 2006.
Awards
As we all know, Sully is a singer, his band has won many awards and nominations. His band,Godsmackk won Boston Music Award four times in the year 2000 whereas Erna won an award at the event.
Not only these, but they also slam the Billboard Award for Rock Artist of the Year in 2001. Similarly, they also achieved the Boston Music Award again four times in the same year.
And finally, the group achieved the Metal Edge Readers’ Choice Award in the year 2002.
In this way, Erna personally as well as his band has won many feats and achievements. He is #47 on the Top 100 Heavy Metal Vocalists list by Hit Parader.
Rumors
Speaking about his rumors, according to some sources he has been in 18 relationships in the past.
Erna had a bond with Liv Boeree (2009). Likewise, he was in a relationship with, Dayna Dalla Porta (2008 – 2009), Ryan Starr (2007 – 2008), Jennifer Cabezon (2001 – 2006), Lorelei Mahoney (2000), Anna Kjellberg (1999), Chase Alden, and Miss Rebecca.
He has been engaged to Sarah Davis in the year 2016.
On the other hand, when it comes to the matter of controversy, on October 9, 2010, Godsmack was presenting at the Mohegan Sun Arena in Uncasville, Connecticut.
There, a fan threw a bad comment as he was not enjoying the stage performance, and in return, Erna threw a bad comment which became controversial in the media. But later he made an apology on Twitter.
Career and Professional Life
At the very young age of 14, Dave Jose became Erna’s new mentor. In the year 1993, he signed his first record deal with a band named Strip Mind. Their debut album What’s in Your Mouth sold 50,000 units.
Some of the band members and Erna didn’t get along, and Erna was kicked out. Soon, they got separated.
Caption: Sully Erna singing during a concert (Instagram)
Sully was also in the band Meliah Rage, active today, as a drummer in the album “Unfinished Business” and “The Fighting Cocks”.
Later, he incarnated a band named Godsmack that would be one that finally throws him to glory.
In contrast, he plays drums and bongos at Godsmack concerts. Erna and Tommy Start(the first drummer) had a very successful idea: the “Battle of the Drums”, accessible only at concerts.
Likewise, he plays the harmonica in the song “Shine Down” from album IV.
In the year 2009, he completed his first solo, and the album called Avalon was released on September 14, 2010. He announced that his album was brilliant for him, and it was dissimilar from other songs.
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Social Media
The charismatic singer has impressive numbers of fans and followers all over social media.
He has over 165k followers on his Instagram account under the username “sullyerna” whereas he has nearly 89.8k followers on his “@SullyErna” Twitter account.
Similarly, Sully Erna has over 422k fans on his Facebook page and he has also a YouTube channel on his Band name Godsmack with over 1.16 million subscribers.
These numbers show he is very active on social media.
Sully Erna – Body Measurements
The dashing musician, as well as the singer, has a good body figure. He stands at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (163 cm). Similarly, he weighs about 64kg.
Likewise, his hair color is dark brown and his eye color is blue. However, his other physicaldetailsl is not stated until now.