‘Every Little Step’ Bobby Brown Took to Get to the Bag: All About His Net Worth, Marriages, and More

The Breakdown: Bobby Brown has become known as an R&B icon to many. He’s produced multiple hits and is even more famous for his tumultuous relationship with Whitney Houston. We have all the details on his net worth, wives, and kids.

Bobby Brown stepped into the spotlight alongside Ralph Tresvant, Michael Bivins, Ronnie DeVoe, and Ricky Bell in the boy band New Edition. The group paved the way for boy bands for years to come.

After years of adolescent fame and flared tempers, Bobby went solo and made a killing after leaving the group. He became known as the “Prince of New Jack Swing.” With so many of us growing up listening to his hits on quiet storm radio, or even owning some of his CDs, every “Roni” fan has wondered what his net worth is at some point.

According to Celebrity Net Worth, Bobby Brown’s net worth has been estimated at $2 million. He’s had an electric career in the music business. He’s become one of the most beloved artists of the 1980s and is regarded as an icon in the R&B genre.

Bobby’s second solo album, Don’t Be Cruel, was an instant classic and tracks most of his hits that are still played today. The album gave him his first No. 1 album debut on the Billboard 200. Don’t Be Cruel also made Bobby the youngest male artist with a No. 1 album since Stevie Wonder set the record at an unbeatable 13 years old. Bobby was only 19 when the album was released.

It was the best-selling album of 1989. It sold over 12 million copies globally, and “Every Little Step” won a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance. The album also placed Bobby in elite company as one of the only artists to have an album with five Top 5 hits in charting history.

After the album’s release and success, Bobby made a cameo in Ghostbusters II and wrote two songs for the movie’s soundtrack.

While his next album, Bobby, didn’t see as much success as Don’t Be Cruel, it still provided the singer with some metal to take home and accolades. The album was certified double platinum by the RIAA.

Bobby saw more commercial success in music through his late ex-wife, Whitney Houston. He helped the songstress with her 2002 album Just Whitney with production and additional vocals. While the album didn’t garner the success her previous albums received, it still received a platinum RIAA certification. Speaking of Whitney (RIP), her and Bobby’s relationship was tumultuous, to say the least.

Bobby Brown and Whitney Houston met at the Soul Train Music Awards in 1989, a year after the smash hit debut of Don’t Be Cruel. The couple married in 1992, only a few months ahead of Whitney’s iconic success in The Bodyguard.

Although their first year of matrimony brought the couple success and plenty of love, it was also filled with plenty of gossip and only got worse. The couple’s relationship became riddled with gossip, and their 14-year marriage was marred with infidelity, drug use, and physical abuse. The two split in 2007, finalizing their divorce in 2009.

Bobby has been married to Alicia Etheredge since 2012. The two met in the industry, as Alicia was his manager for two years before the birth of their first child. The New Edition co-founder proposed to his new wife in 2010 during a performance at Funk Fest in Jacksonville.

He has fathered seven children in total across multiple relationships. Bobby currently has three kids with his wife, Alicia — a son named Cassius and two daughters named Bodhi and Hendrix.

His eldest son, Landon Brown, was born in 1986 to Melika Williams, whom he’d met before pursuing his solo career. The New Jack Swing singer also had two children with Kim Ward in 1989 and 1991, named La’Princia and Bobby Brown, Jr. He also shared a daughter with Whitney, Bobbi Kristina Brown.

Bobbi Kristina unfortunately passed away in 2015 from a form of pneumonia that developed while in a six-month coma. The child of the megastars ended up in a coma as a result of ingesting a combination of drugs and alcohol in a bathtub. Bobby Brown Jr. met a similar fate after overdosing on cocaine, fentanyl, and alcohol in 2020.