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Patrick Carney is an American musician and producer best known as the drummer and co-founder of the rock duo The Black Keys. He was born on April 15, 1980 in Akron, Ohio. He began playing drums at the age of three and was influenced by his father, who was a professional jazz drummer. Carney attended Firestone High School in Akron, Ohio, and later attended the University of Akron. He began playing in local bands in the Akron area, and eventually formed The Black Keys with guitarist Dan Auerbach in 2001. The band released their debut album, The Big Come Up, in 2002. Carney has produced albums for artists such as The Black Keys, Arctic Monkeys, Cage the Elephant, and Dr. Dog. He has also collaborated with artists such as RZA, Danger Mouse, and Auerbach. As of 2021, Patrick Carney's net worth is estimated to be $20 million.

Popular As Patrick James Carney
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Age 44 years old
Zodiac Sign Aries
Born 15 April 1980
Birthday 15 April
Birthplace Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Nationality United States

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Patrick Carney Height, Weight & Measurements

At 44 years old, Patrick Carney height is 1.91 m .

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Height 1.91 m
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Who Is Patrick Carney's Wife?

His wife is Denise Grollmus (m. 2007-2009) Emily Ward (m. 2012-2016) Michelle Branch (m. 2019)

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Wife Denise Grollmus (m. 2007-2009) Emily Ward (m. 2012-2016) Michelle Branch (m. 2019)
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Patrick Carney Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Patrick Carney worth at the age of 44 years old? Patrick Carney’s income source is mostly from being a successful Producer. He is from United States. We have estimated Patrick Carney's net worth , money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2023 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Source of Income Producer

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Timeline

2019

In 2001 Carney and Auerbach, lead singer and guitarist, formed The Black Keys, releasing their debut album The Big Come Up less than a year later. This was followed by Thickfreakness in 2003 and Rubber Factory in 2004. The band's fourth album Magic Potion was released in 2006. Attack & Release, their critically acclaimed fifth album was released in 2008, with a follow up in 2010 titled Brothers. In 2011, the band released the album El Camino. The band's latest album is Turn Blue, released in 2014. They released their first single in five years, "Lo/Hi", on March 7, 2019.

2018

In 2015, Carney met Michelle Branch at a Grammy party, and the two started dating during the production of Branch's album Hopeless Romantic, which Carney produced. In 2017, Branch and her daughter Owen moved into Carney's Nashville home, which they share with Irish wolfhounds. Carney and Branch became engaged on her birthday in 2017. On February 11, 2018, Branch announced that she and Carney were expecting their first child. Their son, Rhys James Carney, was born in August 2018. Carney and Branch married in April 2019.

2017

Carney's father, Jim, is a retired longtime reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal and a music lover whom Carney credits with introducing him to various genres. His mother, Mary Stormer, is civil accounts supervisor for the Akron Municipal Court and is a former member of the Akron Board of Education. His stepmother, Katie Byard Carney, is a longtime reporter for the Akron Beacon Journal. His stepfather, Barry Stormer, owns B. A. Stormer Construction Services. Carney has three brothers, William, who is an Amtrak supervisor, Michael, a graphic artist who has created the art for each of The Black Keys albums, and in 2017 launched the Central High t-shirt line, and Barry Stormer Jr., who is a capital markets analyst for Keycorp.

Carney's uncle, Ralph Carney, was a professional saxophone player, and played with Tom Waits, among others. Ralph died in December 2017, after falling down steps in his Portland, Oregon, home. After Carney's parents divorced when he was 6, he lived part of the time with his mother, Mary Stormer, and part of the time with his father, Jim Carney, who had moved to a different neighborhood in West Akron, Ohio. Dan Auerbach lived around the block in this neighborhood, and the two met and played tag football with Auerbach's friends, although Patrick and Auerbach did not become friends until high school. Carney stated in an interview with Modern Drummer that he never took drum lessons as a kid, but learned by mimicking friends that were also drummers, using a $150 drumset that he bought using money earned from a job washing dishes at the Mustard Seed grocery and cafe in an Akron suburb, Bath Township. As a teenager, Carney was musically influenced by bands such as Pavement, Captain Beefheart and fellow Akron band Devo.

2012

Carney married Emily Ward, whom he had met while living in New York City, on September 15, 2012, in the backyard of their Nashville home. Carney and Ward divorced in January 2016. Ward, a California native, had moved to Los Angeles by that time.

2010

Carney’s first marriage was to writer Denise Grollmus, in 2007, when he lived in Akron, Ohio. The two had dated for several years, since Grollmus was a student at Oberlin College in Ohio and Carney and Dan Auerbach launched The Black Keys. The couple divorced in 2009. Both talked about the messy breakup in the media; Carney in Rolling Stone' s May 27, 2010, issue and Grollmus in an essay - "Snapshots From a Rock 'N' Roll Marriage", published in Salon on March 3, 2011.

In 2010, Carney and his bandmate, Dan Auerbach, moved from Akron and purchased homes in Nashville. They recorded their El Camino album at Auerbach's newly completed Nashville studio, Easy Eye Sound Studio.

2009

In 2009, while fellow The Black Keys member Dan Auerbach was on his solo tour, Carney formed a new band called Drummer in which he played bass guitar. Each of the band's members had played drums in another band. They released Feel Good Together, their debut album in the same year. Carney is the drummer on The Rentals' 2014 album Lost in Alphaville. Carney also contributed the main title music to the 2014 Netflix show BoJack Horseman. In 2017, Carney contributed music to the soundtrack of BoJack Horseman.

2001

Audio Eagle Studio is a recording studio opened in 2001 by Carney. The studio was located in Akron, Ohio and consisted mostly of a digital 12-track recorder. It went through many incarnations and configurations and was mainly used to record the first four The Black Keys albums. In 2010, the studio was relocated to Nashville, Tennessee.

1980

Patrick James Carney (born April 15, 1980) is an American musician and producer. Carney serves as the drummer for The Black Keys, a blues rock band from Akron, Ohio. He currently lives in Nashville, Tennessee.