Somaya Reece was born on 17 June 1983, in Los Angeles, California USA, of Salvadorian descent. Somaya is a singer, musician, and actor, best known for gaining popularity during the peak of MySpace. She’s also starred in numerous films including “The Scorpion King”, “American Psycho”, and “Ride or Die”. All of her efforts have helped put her net worth to where it is today.
How rich is Somaya Reece? As of mid-2016, sources estimate a net worth that is at $3.5 million, mostly earned through a career in acting and modelling. She’s been featured in numerous publications, and has done advertising work for big companies such as Pepsi, Ralph Lauren, and DKNY. She has also been a part of a few reality television shows, and as she continues her career it is expected that her wealth will increase.
Somaya Reece Net Worth $3.5 million
Reece started learning music at a young age, playing the violin since she was nine years old. As she grew older, she worked various jobs including being a maid with her mother. Refusing to stay on that path, she decided to work on introducing her talents to the world.
Somaya began gaining recognition during the peak of MySpace’s popularity, and she started doing viral videos through the site. At this time, her videos were reportedly viewed over 31 million times, and she received around 5000 friend requests a day, eventually reaching more than 814,000 friends, and she is now considered the number one Latina artist on MySpace. Her popularity led her to appear in various advertisements for companies such as Coors Light, Colgate, and Budweiser, and she also became featured in publications such as XXL magazine and Maxim en Espanol. Her net worth was well established.
Due to her talents in music, she started working for big names in the industry, including Snoop Dogg, Missy Elliot, T.I., Britney Spears, and Christina Aguilera. She became a regular feature in radio stations especially in the UK, and built a large fan base: a lot of fans compared her early work to that of Missy Elliot.
Her career transitioned to television and film, starting with her becoming an original cast member of the reality show “Love & Hip Hop”. She was then cast for several films such as “Miss Cast Away”, “The Girl from the Naked Eye”, and “For It”. She also made her way on to numerous television shows, including “Girlfriends” and “Entourage”. Her net worth was rising.
Aside from the above, Reece has her own clothing line, and has opened her own clothing store. Other business projects she’s worked on include calendars and Pinkdice sneakers, which were in collaboration with The Geoffrey Allen Corporation, and which led to the high end clothing line called “Stupid Fresh”. She also maintains a blog called “A Realistic Approach to Fitness”, which as the name denotes is about health and fitness.
For her personal life, there is no information available about relationships(s), regardless that Somaya still maintains a high level of popularity on social media, having more than 420,000 followers on Instagram and almost 300,000 followers on Twitter, on which she promotes a lot of her latest projects. Her blog was also brought about by her apparent need to become slimmer and lose weight.
