Randy Jackson was born on June 23, 1956, as Randall Darius "Randy" Jackson. His birth place is Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. Randy was born as the son of mother Julia Jackson and father Herman Jackson. His mother was a homemaker and his father was a plant foreman. Randy’s nationality is American. According to his ethnicity, he is an Afro-American. Randy’s star sing is Cancer.
Randy Jackson attended Southern University and A&M College for his education. In the starting of his career during the 1980s, he played guitar in the three albums for Jean-Luc Ponty. He was also engaged with the rock band Taxxi. Randy was also a s sociated with the rock group Journey as a session musician in 1986.
Randy worked with guitarist Steve Lukather in his on the first solo album and he also performed on several of Kenny G's albums. In 1991 album of Australian band Divinyls, he was the ba s s guitarist. On March 2008, he released his album Randy Jackson's Music Club, Vol. 1, which has a hit track Dance Like There's No Tomorrow sung by Paula Adbal.
In 2002, he appeared as the judge on the Fox Network reality television series American Idol, where he shared a judge chair with renowned artists like Simon Cowell, Jennifer Lopez, Steven Tyler, and others. In the show, he was one of the famous judges and he was on the show until November 2014. Later he produced an American group dance competition and reality television show America's Best Dance Crew.
Randy Jackson is a talented actor and his sexual orientation is straight. Randy’s current relational status is married and he has been married twice.
Randy Jackson had an affair with Elizabeth Jackson. His first marriage was with his girlfriend Elizabeth and had a divorce with his wife in 1990 after a huge misunderstanding. He has one daughter named Taylor with her spouse. In 1995, Jackson was married for the second time with Erika Riker. Jackson has two children with his current wife, a 12-year-old son named Jordan and a 14-year-old daughter named Zoe. Randy currently lives with his wife and two children in Baton Rouge.
Randy lost 114 pounds of his weight by gastric bypa s s surgery. In February 2008, Randy stated that he had type 2 diabetes in a television commercial. Randy has a huge interest in Basketball and American football.
Randy Jackson has an average height of 5 feet and 8 inches with a dark face and black hair. Randy has a huge net worth of 40 million dollars. Though he is paid a huge salary amount, he has not disclosed about it. Even at the age of 59 he has maintained his health with proper exercise and diet. Randy has huge fans following on his official Twitter and Instagram account. His fans also visit his official website to get detail information about him and his current work.
by Bchrome, 10 Apr, 2016
