What is KevJumba’s Net Worth?
KevJumba is a Taiwanese-American comedian, YouTube character, actor, director, author, and producer who has a net worth of $4 million. KevJumba, also called Kevin Wu, turned an web sensation whereas attending the University of California, Davis, and subsequently left faculty in an effort to deal with his profession.
He started posting movies to YouTube about his experiences as an Asian American in 2007, and as his recognition elevated, he additionally started posting movies of his father, often called PapaJumba. His “KEVIN” YouTube channel has 2.65 million subscribers, although as of this writing, the channel is displaying the message “This channel would not have any content material.”
In early 2023, KevJumba posted a video titled “Youtube, Starting from Scratch” through which he mentioned he would start posting movies once more, however he later made the video personal. He has appeared within the movies “Hang Loose” (2012), “Rock Jocks” (2012), “Revenge of the Green Dragons” (2014), “Man Up” (2015), and “Twinsters” (2015), and in 2010, he competed on “The Amazing Race” along with his father, ending in seventh place. KevJumba directed the 2012 miniseries “The Most Awesomest Fashion Show,” and he wrote and produced “Hang Loose” and “Man Up.”
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Early Life
KevJumba was born Kevin Wu on June 12, 1990, in Houston, Texas. His father, Michael, immigrated to the U.S. from Taiwan and works as a pc engineer. KevJumba attended Clements High School in Sugar Land, graduating in 2008, then he spent two years on the University of California, Davis. He later enrolled on the University of Houston, incomes a bachelor’s diploma in psychology in 2019.
Career
KevJumba joined YouTube in 2006, and the next 12 months he gained recognition after his video “I Have to Deal With Stereotypes” was featured on the homepage. By 2008, his channel was the third most subscribed YouTube channel. “The Hollywood Reporter” mentioned of KevJumba, “The Houston native’s self-deprecating vlogs in regards to the indignities of being an Asian-American teen generated greater than 300 million views and led to collaborations with Jessica Alba and Jeremy Lin.” KevJumba’s recognition impressed him to drop out of college to create movies full-time, and he moved to Los Angeles, the place he lived with fellow YouTubers corresponding to Dominic “D-Trix” Sandoval and Ryan Higa. He signed a contract with the CAA expertise company in 2011. “The Hollywood Reporter” article acknowledged of this time in his life, “CAA set Wu up with performing coaches, auditions and conferences with noteworthy producers, together with one who started creating a TV comedy primarily based on his relationship along with his family. There had been talks with content material producers each conventional (Cartoon Network) and digital (Xbox Entertainment Studios, which shuttered in 2014). Brands paid him 5 figures for three-minute movies.”
In 2011, KevJumba began performing with Yesterday, Today, Forever (YTF) alongside different YouTube personalities. In 2012, he started showing in movies on the YouTube channel “YOMYOMF.” He has starred within the internet collection “Funemployed” and “KevJumba Takes All,” and “Funemployed” was considered 500,000 occasions inside a couple of weeks of launch. He stopped posting YouTube movies in 2013, however in 2022, he began posting movies of himself performing music to his YouTube channel, which is now titled “KEVIN” as an alternative of “KevJumba.” He later deleted these movies. KevJumba has additionally appeared on The CW collection “Online Nation” (2007) and the HBOLabs internet collection “Hooking Up” (2008), and he starred within the 2014 Martin Scorsese-produced crime drama “Revenge of the Green Dragons.” He starred in, co-wrote, and produced the 2012 movie “Hang Loose,” which gained awards on the National Film Society Awards and VC FilmFest – Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival.
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Personal Life
In January 2022, KevJumba posted a video to Instagram through which he proposed to his girlfriend, with the caption “I did it! She mentioned sure!!!” In June 2015, KevJumba was hit by a automotive in Los Angeles and suffered a damaged backbone and collapsed lungs. He underwent two main surgical procedures, and he informed “The Hollywood Reporter” in 2017, “My temper began to swing as a result of each time they discovered one thing unsuitable with my physique, I used to be making an attempt to downplay it.” The article acknowledged, “He ultimately was assessed as a hazard to himself and spent 17 days at a behavioral well being facility following his monthlong hospitalization.”
In 2009, KevJumba launched a brand new YouTube channel, “JumbaFund,” with the aim of donating its earnings to charitable organizations that had been recommended by viewers. In 2011, the nonprofit group The Supply invited him to show English in Kenya. He posted movies of his journey on the “JumbaFund” YouTube channel and donated greater than $5,000 in advert income to the charity, which The Supply put towards the price of constructing the Jumba Lenana Academy. “JumbaFund” additionally donated cash to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital and the Red Cross earlier than KevJumba determined to dedicate the channel’s income solely to the Jumba Lenana Academy in 2012. Construction of the college was accomplished in 2013, and the title was modified to KevJumba High School. “JumbaFund” donated over $50,000 to the college’s building.
Awards
“Hang Loose” earned KevJumba a Special Jury Prize for Best Newcomer on the 2012 VC FilmFest – Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film Festival, and he and his co-star Dante Basco had been named Best Duo on the 2013 National Film Society Awards. In 2013, he was honored with the forty seventh Visionary Award from the Los Angeles-based theatre group the East West Players, the nation’s oldest Asian Pacific American theatre firm. The East West Players’ Producing Artistic Director, Tim Dang, mentioned of the choice to current the award to KevJumba, “Kevin is a superb instance of the ‘subsequent technology’ taking the result in increase the visibility of Asian Americans by new media and the artwork of comedy. At a comparatively younger age, he has achieved a stage of recognition that has garnered a brand new and very important viewers. He can also be an modern philanthropist, leveraging his celeb to have interaction his viewers in giving to charity and constructing his personal faculty in Kenya by his JumbaFund YouTube channel.”
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