Suzi Quatro Net Worth

What Is Suzi Quatro's Net Worth?

Suzi Quatro is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress who has a net worth of $10 million. Suzi Quatro was the first female bass player who became a major rock star, and she is credited with helping women participate in rock and roll music. She had a series of hit singles in the 1970s and starred as bass player Leather Tuscadero on the TV series "Happy Days" from 1977 to 1979. In 1979, her duet "Stumblin' In" with Chris Norman hit #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Quatro's self-titled debut studio album was released in 1973, and she has gone on to release 17 more studio albums, including a 2023 collaboration with KT Tunstall titled "Face to Face." Suzi's hits include "48 Crash," "Can the Can," "Devil Gate Drive," "Daytona Demon," and "Your Mamma Won't Like Me." She has sold more than 50 million albums and won six Bravo Ottos. Quatro was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2011. In 2009, BBC TV named her one of the 12 Queens of British Pop.

Early Life

Suzi Quatro was born Susan Kay Quatro on June 3, 1950, in Detroit, Michigan. She is the daughter of Helen Ottilia Sanislay and Arthur James Quatro, and she has four siblings, Patti, Nancy, Arlene, and Michael, as well as an older half-sister. Arthur worked for General Motors and was a semiprofessional musician. Suzi's paternal grandfather immigrated to the U.S. from Italy, and her mother was Hungarian. The family name was originally "Quattrocchi" (meaning "four eyes"), but it was later shortened to Quatro. Actress Sherilyn Fenn is Suzi's niece. During Quatro's youth, her parents fostered several children. Suzi's earliest musical influence was Elvis Presley, who she saw perform on TV when she was six years old. She took piano and percussion lessons, and after her sister asked her to learn bass for their first band, the Pleasure Seekers, she taught herself to play. In 1964, Quatro received a 1957 Fender Precision Bass guitar from her father, which she was still using in the studio decades later.

Career

At an early age, Suzi began playing percussion with her father's jazz band. In 1964, her sister Patti formed an all-female garage band, the Pleasure Seekers, with two of her friends. Suzi joined the band and began using the stage name Suzi Soul. Their sister Arlene joined the band later, and they released the single "Never Thought You'd Leave Me" / "What a Way to Die" in 1966, followed by "Light of Love" / "Good Kind of Hurt" in 1968. After Arlene left the group, and another sister, Nancy, joined in 1969, the band was renamed Cradle. Suzi later pursued a solo career, releasing her debut self-titled album in 1973. The album reached the top 10 on the charts in four countries and was certified Gold in Finland. The singles "Can the Can" and "48 Crash" topped the charts in Australia, and "Can the Can" also reached #1 in Germany, Switzerland, and the U.K. Her second album, "Quatro," reached #1 in Australia, and she had a #1 hit in Australia, Ireland, Norway, and the U.K. with the single "Devil Gate Drive." Suzi released four more solo albums in the '70s: "Your Mamma Won't Like Me" (1975), "Aggro-Phobia" (1976), "If You Knew Suzi…" (1978), and "Suzi … and Other Four Letter Words" (1979). "Suzi … and Other Four Letter Words" peaked at #4 in Norway, and "If You Knew Suzi…" featured the hit singles "If You Can't Give Me Love" and "Stumblin' In" (with Chris Norman). From 1977 to 1979, Quatro played bass player Leather Tuscadero on the popular sitcom "Happy Days."

In the '80s, Suzi released the albums "Rock Hard" (1980) and "Main Attraction" (1982), and the single "Rock Hard" was a top 10 hit in Australia. In 1986, she starred as Annie Oakley in the London revival of "Annie Get Your Gun," and she was featured on the cast recording. In 1991, Quatro played actress Tallulah Bankhead in the musical "Tallulah Who?" in Hornchurch, England. Suzi released four albums in the '90s: "Oh, Suzi Q." (1990), "What Goes Around – Greatest & Latest" (1995), "Unreleased Emotion" (1998), and "Free the Butterfly" (1999). Next, she released 2006's "Back to the Drive" and 2011's "In the Spotlight," and her 2017 album "Quatro, Scott & Powell" reached #23 in Australia. In 2019, Quatro released the album "No Control," and it peaked at #31 in Germany and #39 in Australia. The 2021 album "The Devil in Me" reached #10 on the UK Rock & Metal Albums chart and #18 on the UK Independent Albums chart. In 2023, Suzi collaborated on the album "Face to Face" with KT Tunstall, and it reached #10 on the Scottish Albums chart and #14 on the UK Album Sales chart.

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Personal Life

In 1976, Suzi married Len Tuckey, her long-time guitarist. They welcomed two children, Richard and Laura, together before divorcing in 1992. On October 22, 1993, Quatro wed concert promoter Rainer Haas. In March 2012, Suzi suffered a broken knee and wrist while boarding an aircraft the morning after a show in Kyiv, Ukraine. She subsequently canceled her performance at April's Detroit Music Awards, where she was set to be inducted into the Detroit Hall of Fame with her sisters. This would have been her first U.S. performance in more than three decades.

Awards and Nominations

Quatro has won six Bravo Otto awards in the Female Singer category, earning Gold in 1973 and 1974, Silver in 1980, and Bronze in 1975, 1978, and 1979. She was inducted into the Michigan Rock and Roll Legends Hall of Fame in 2011, and in 2020, the Women's International Music Network honored her with the Icon Award. In 2016, Anglia Ruskin University in Cambridge presented Suzi with an honorary doctorate in music.

Real Estate

In 1980, Quatro paid approximately £120,000 for a home in the Essex countryside. The home is known as Hyde House, and The Sunday Times described it as a "Grade II-listed Elizabethan manor house" with "eight bedrooms, several studies and three large entertaining rooms." In 2008, Suzi put the estate on the market for £2.3 million.

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