Thomas Jason Grinstead was born on the 3rd October 1970, in Oshawa, Ontario Canada, and is a musician, songwriter and record producer. Hook is mostly known as the lead guitarist of the Five Finger Death Punch band, the name of the heavy metal group being linked to the classic Kung Fu cinema. Jason has been active in the entertainment industry since the late 1990s.
How much is the net worth of Jason Hook? It has been estimated by authoritative sources that the outright size of his wealth is as much as $6 million, as of the data presented in the middle of 2017. Music is the major source of Hook’s net worth.
Jason Hook Net Worth $6 Million
To begin with, the boy was raised in Oakville, Ontario. In his childhood, he learnt to play the guitar, and later took lessons to learn to play the violin, piano and drums.
Concerning his professional career, he set up the band Monkeyhead in Canada, then moved to Los Angeles and joined the Bullet Boys band. Since 2000, Jason Hook has been hired as a guitarist for tours and recordings by many artists, including the singers Hilary Duff and Alice Cooper as well as bands like Vince Neil Band. In 2007, Hook released his first solo album “Safety Dunce”, an instrumental metal and hard rock album. Two years later, he joined the Five Finger Death Punch band as a replacement for Darrell Roberts – the band’s album “War Is The Answer” was released the same year, produced by Ozzy Osbourne, reaching 7th position on the Billboard Top 200, and selling 45,000 copies the first week of the release. To promote the album Five Finger Death Punch embarked on the tour “The Shock and Raw” around the US, and then toured Europe, ending with a series of shows in the UK. In 2010, the band traveled to Iraq and played about 10 concerts for US troops. The band had played international music festivals including Mayhem in 2008 and 2010 and Download Festival in 2009 and 2010. The band was also one of the Headliners at the Metal Hammer Hammerfest II Festival, held in Wales. Jason’s net worth was rising steadily.
Afterwards, the band released the album entitled “American Capitalist” (2011). From July to August in 2012, Five Finger Death Punch starred in the “Trespass America Festival” with support from God Forbid, Pop Evil, Trivium and Killswitch Engage. In 2013, they were the opening act for Avenged Sevenfold, and released the album entitled “The Wrong Side of Heaven and the Righteous Side of Hell, Volume 1”, which topped the Billboard Hard Rock and Rock charts. The same year, Volume 2 of the same album was released, and it also reached 1st position on the aforementioned charts.
Recently, the band released the album “Got Your Six” which reached very high positions (top 5) on the charts in USA, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and most of European countries.
Finally, in the personal life of Jason Hook, he is in long term relationship with Tracy Dali; they have been together since 2005.
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