Phil Lesh
Phil Lesh
Celebrated Name: Phil Lesh
Real Name/Full Name: Phil Champman Lesh
Gender: Male
Age: 84 years old
Birth Date: March 15, 1940
Birth Place: Berkeley, California
Nationality: American
Height: 1.58 m
Weight: 67 kg
Sexual Orientation: Straight
Marital Status: Married
Wife/Spouse (Name): Jill
Children/Kids (Son and Daughter): Yes (Grahame & Brian )
Dating/Girlfriend (Name): N/A
Is Phil Lesh Gay?: No
Profession: Musician
Salary: N/A
Net Worth in 2024: $50 million
Last Updated: March 2024

Phil Lesh is also known as Phil Chapman Lesh, is a professional musician and also the member of the Grateful Dead. He was also the founding member of the Grateful Dead.  He played the bass guitar for around 30 years alongside Grateful Dead. After separation of the whole band, he too continued the tradition of a Grateful dead family alongside other projects.

Maybe you know about Phil Lesh very well, but do you know how old and tall is he and what is his net worth in 2024? If you do not know, we have prepared this article about details of Phil Lesh’s short biography-wiki, career, professional life, personal life, today’s net worth, age, height, weight, and more facts. Well, if you’re ready, let’s start.

Early Life & Biography

Phil Lesh was born in the city of Berkeley in California. He started his music career as a violinist. He got into Berkeley High School for completing his schooling career. He, in his high school, switched to trumpet and participated in all the music competitions that were held at his school. He, after completing his school life, went on to attend  San Francisco State University. He was unable to achieve the position he wanted to be in the university band.

Personal Life

A very little is known about Phil Lesh’s personal life. As per the reports after the disbanding of Grateful Dead, he went on to continue for other projects alongside some other friends of him.

Phil and wife Jill are also involved in many charitable works, and they also run their own charitable organization named as the Unbroken Chain Foundation. The couple has two children Grahame and Brian. Both of their children follow their father’s footsteps; they both are seen doing a lot of stage shows with Phil.

It is also heard that in 1998 Phil underwent a Liver transplant as a result of chronic hepatitis C infection, and from that day, he started promoting his thought about the organ donor program. After every stage show or the normal performance of his, he encourages members in the audience to become an organ donor.

Age, Height, and Weight

Being born on March 15 1940 , Phil Lesh is 84 years old as of today’s date 28th March 2024. His height is 1.58 m tall, and his weight is 67 kg.

Career

Phil Lesh’s career was completely devoted to music. He has the capability of playing any musical instrument. Basically, he worked under the rock genre of music and was quite successful in that genre. After not getting the favorable position at San Francisco University, he went on to take admission to College of San Mateo, where he began to write charts and also led the first trumpet chair of the college.

Phil, because of his hard work and combined effort, came up to be known as one of the esteemed members of the Grateful Dead. Later he came up as a mentor for many institutions under the Grateful Dead.

After the disbanding of Grateful Dead he went on to perform many shows with his old mates and also with some intellectual member of Grateful Dead, he even performed with his college classmate and got the golden opportunity to be trained under Italian modernist Luciano Berio . after this he went on to meet Jack Casady who gave him knowledge of bass.

Awards & Achievements

Phil Lesh is a very famous musician with some of the most remarkable achievements-

  • He was the founder of the Grateful Dead.

Net Worth & Salary of Phil Lesh in 2024

Phil Lesh Net Worth
Phil Lesh Net Worth

As of March 2024, The net worth of Phil Lesh is estimated to be around $50 million. He earned most of this money by being the bass player of popular band Grateful Dead. He has also performed in live shows as a violinist.

He earned most of this money by being the bass player of popular band Grateful Dead.

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