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Sacha Jenkins was born on 1971 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S., is an American music journalist (born 1971). Discover Sacha Jenkins's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 53 years old?
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Sacha Jenkins Height, Weight & Measurements
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Who Is Sacha Jenkins's Wife?
His wife is Raquel Cepeda
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Monart and Horace Byrd Jenkins III |
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Sacha Jenkins Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Sacha Jenkins worth at the age of 53 years old? Sacha Jenkins’s income source is mostly from being a successful Journalist. He is from United States. We have estimated Sacha Jenkins's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.
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$1 Million - $5 Million |
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Timeline
Sacha Jenkins (born 1971) is an American television producer, filmmaker, writer, musician, artist, curator, and chronicler of hip-hop, graffiti, punk, and metal cultures.
While still in his teens, Jenkins published Graphic Scenes & X-Plicit Language, one of the earliest 'zines solely dedicated to "graffiti" art.
Sacha Jenkins was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on August 22, 1971.
The Jenkins family lived in Silver Spring, Maryland, until Sacha Jenkins was seven years old.
After his parents' separation, Jenkins' father, Horace Byrd Jenkins III, moved to Harlem.
(Piecebooks are the sketchbooks that graffiti artists used to map out their works or "pieces" before committing them to a larger surface. The Piecebook series highlights drawings that span the globe and go as far back as 1973.) In 2007, Jenkins wrote the foreword to Jon Naar's The Birth of Graffiti, a book devoted to graffiti in New York in the 1970s.
(Horace was a professor of communications at Howard University.) Jenkins, along with his mother, Monart, and his sister, Dominique, moved to Queens, New York in 1977.
Horace Byrd Jenkins III won Emmy Awards for his contributions to the TV programs The Advocates, Sesame Street, and 30 Minutes (CBS TV series), and was a pioneer in the TV magazine format with the program Black Journal.
Under the name Horace Jenkins, he wrote and directed the feature film Cane River (1982).
That same year, Horace died of a heart attack.
Sacha's mother, Monart, who is of Haitian origin, is a painter who has exhibited her work in galleries in Washington, D.C., and New York City.
The couple have two children, Djali Brown-Cepeda (Jenkins' stepdaughter) and a son, Marceau.
In 1988, Jenkins published his first 'zine—Graphic Scenes & Xplicit Language—one of the earliest magazines dedicated to graffiti art.
Jenkins graduated from William Cullen Bryant High School in Woodside, New York, in 1990.
Afterwards, he attended Brooklyn College and City College of New York.
In 1992, Jenkins and childhood friend Haji Akhigbade established Beat-Down Newspaper, a very early hip-hop newspaper.
In 1994, Jenkins co-founded Ego Trip magazine.
In June 1994, following a falling out between Akhigbade and Jenkins, Jenkins and Wilson co-founded ego trip magazine.
The magazine published 13 issues during the next four years —with content spanning everything from rap to skateboarding to punk rock to interviews bearing Count Chocula's byline.
Currently, Jenkins is the creative director of Mass Appeal, an urban culture magazine and website founded in 1996.
He is also writing a biography with the Beastie Boys, and is finishing up his directorial debut, Fresh Dressed — a documentary film about the history of hip-hop fashion—for CNN Films.
Jenkins is a member of The Wilding Incident and The White Mandingos, a rock band that also features rapper Murs and Bad Brains bassist Darryl Jenifer.
Between 1997 and 2000, Jenkins was the music editor of Vibe magazine.
He has written articles and features for Spin magazine and Rolling Stone about a wide array of recording artists—from Nas to Queens of the Stone Age to The Mars Volta and Kid Rock.
Jenkins co-authored Eminem's biography,The Way I Am, with Eminem.
With co-author David "Chino" Villorente, Jenkins created the influential Piecebook series of books.
In 2000, Jenkins was awarded a fellowship to the Graduate School of Journalism via National Arts Journalism Program at Columbia University.
Eventually, there were Ego Trip books (ego trip's Book of Rap Lists and ego trip's Big Book of Racism) and Ego Trip television series ["Race-O-Rama" (2005), ego trip's The White Rapper Show (2007) and Miss Rap Supreme (2008)] — all carried by VH1.
Jenkins himself has written and produced a number of film and television projects.
In 2005 he began working as a writer on season one of Aaron McGruder's hit series The Boondocks.
In 2007, he created the competition reality program ego trip's The (White) Rapper Show, which was carried by VH1.
Currently, Jenkins is the creative director of Mass Appeal magazine.
In 2009 he wrote and produced an off-Broadway play entitled Deez Nuts: A Musical Massacre, about a journalist who interviews rap group The Beatnuts.
Two years later he directed "Negroes On Ice," a traveling production featuring Grammy Award-winning producer Prince Paul.
In 2022, Jenkins wrote, directed and executive produced the documentary series Everything's Gonna Be All White.
In 2011, Jenkins was executive producer of "50 Cent: The Origin of Me" — a documentary that traces the genealogy of rapper Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
Their debut single and full-length LP—both titled "The Ghetto Is Tryna Kill Me" — were issued by Fat Beats records in June 2013.
Jenkins has collaborated with other notable musicians to present their works in the theater space.