Matt Heafy - Net Worth, Age, Height, Birthday, Bio, Wiki!

Explore Matt Heafy net worth, age, height, bio, birthday, wiki, and salary! Trivium’s lead guitarist and vocalist is also his band. He has also performed with Capharnaum, a popular music group. In this article, we will discover how old is Matt Heafy? Who is Matt Heafy dating now & how much money does Matt Heafy have?

NameMatt Heafy
First NameMatt
Last NameHeafy
OccupationGuitarist
BirthdayJanuary 26
Birth Year1986
Place of BirthIwakuni
Home TownYamaguchi Prefecture
Birth CountryJapan
Birth SignCapricorn
Full/Birth Name
FatherNot Available
MotherNot Available
SiblingsNot Available
SpouseAshley Heafy
Children(s)Not Available

Matt Heafy Biography

Matt Heafy is one of the most popular and richest Guitarist who was born on January 26, 1986 in Iwakuni, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan. Metallica frontman Metallica frontman James Hetfield was one of Heafy’s major musical influences. is one of Heafy’s main musical influences.

Heafy was born in Iwakuni, Japan to a Japanese mother and an American father. His father, formerly a member of the United States Marine Corps, is half Irish and half German. Although Heafy was born in Japan, and is Japanese, he only lived there for one year and does not speak Japanese fluently; however, he uses some basic phrases when he performs in Japan. His family then moved to Orlando, Florida, where he currently resides. Heafy attended Lake Brantley High School. He completed his senior year while also touring in Europe, and graduated in 2004. During those years, Heafy used to live a straight edge lifestyle. Heafy also has a younger sister who does covers of video game music on her YouTube channel.

In 2005, Roadrunner Records released Roadrunner United: The All-Star Sessions to celebrate the label’s 25th anniversary. Four “team captains” were chosen: Joey Jordison (Slipknot, Murderdolls, Scar the Martyr), Robb Flynn (Machine Head), and Dino Cazares (Fear Factory) as well as Heafy. Heafy also wrote the lyrics and sang the lead vocals to “The End,” captained by Dino Cazares. He and bandmate/guitarist Corey Beaulieu recorded the song “In the Fire” as well, featuring singer King Diamond, bassist Mike D’Antonio, and drummer Dave Chavarri. He also wrote and played guitar on the tracks “Dawn of a Golden Age”, “I Don’t Wanna Be (A Superhero)” and “Blood and Flames,” also contributing vocals to the latter.

He was the son of a Japanese mother and spent his first year in Japan. He grew up in Florida. He married Ashley Heafy in 2010.

He joined Capharnaum with Trivium’s ex-producer.

Matthew Kiichi Heafy (born January 26, 1986) is a Japanese-born American musician best known as the guitarist and lead vocalist for the American heavy metal band Trivium. Heafy is also the lead vocalist for the band Capharnaum, along with Trivium’s former producer Jason Suecof. He is also a gamer and practitioner of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, and he does daily live streams on his Twitch channel “matthewkheafy”, which consist of playing video games, running guitar clinics, vocal warm ups, showcasing his Brazilian jiu-jitsu classes, and playing Trivium songs and acoustic covers.

Matt Heafy Net Worth

Matt is one of the richest Guitarist from Japan. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Matt Heafy's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: January 13, 2024)

He was twelve years old when he first picked up the guitar.

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeGuitarist
CarsNot Available
HouseLiving in own house.

Heafy—along with several other metal artists—makes guest appearances in the music videos for “Aesthetics of Hate” by Machine Head, released March 27, 2007, “All I Want” by A Day to Remember, released January 7, 2011, and “Moving On” by Asking Alexandria, released September 12, 2014.

Heafy has been endorsing Gibson since Summer 2009, but before he endorsed Dean after he and Corey Beaulieu were both given Dean Razorback prototypes in 2006. In 2008 his signature model, an ML shape with a graphic of the Japanese Rising Sun, was released. He stopped using Deans in 2009 after some disagreements. In summer 2009 Gibson made him a custom 7 string Explorer, which later became a production model but only available in black right-handed models.

Ethnicity, religion & political views

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Heafy won the Metal Hammer “Golden God” award in 2006.

Who is Matt Heafy Dating?

According to our records, Matt Heafy married to Ashley Heafy . As of January 13, 2024, Matt Heafy’s is not dating anyone.

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On January 10, 2010, Heafy married Ashley Howard in Orlando, Florida. The wedding was attended by their close friends and family. The couple have two twin children, a daughter, Mia Kiyomi Heafy, and a son, Akira Hiro Heafy, both born on November 6, 2018. Matt returned home from tour to be with Ashley while she gave birth while the tour finished with Howard Jones and Johannes Eckerström performing guest vocals on various songs and YouTuber Jared Dines filling in on guitar.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

Matt Heafy height 6 ft 3 in Matt weight Not Known & body measurements will update soon.

Height6 ft 3 in
WeightNot Known
Body MeasurementsUnder Review
Eye ColorNot Available
Hair ColorNot Available
Feet/Shoe SizeNot Available

Also in 2006, he sang one song, “Blind”, for Korn at the Download Festival when Korn’s lead vocalist Jonathan Davis fell ill.

With the release of Trivium’s 4th album, Shogun, Heafy greatly expanded his vocal range; from very melodic singing to hardcore screams. In 2011 Trivium’s fifth studio album In Waves was released with a ‘greater emphasis on songs rather than skill,’ with the album featuring the full range of Heafy’s vocal talents with some songs being entirely composed of screaming and others with no screaming at all, and many songs that fused the two as with previous records.

Facts & Trivia

Matt Ranked on the list of most popular Guitarist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Japan. Matt Heafy celebrates birthday on January 26 of every year.

In 2013, Epiphone released his artist signature model Les Paul in both 6 and 7 string versions. He had previously been seen playing his signature models on the Dream Theater “A Dramatic Turn of Events Tour”. In 2017, Epiphone released a new signature model called “SnØfall”, which drew inspiration from Trivium’s 2015 album Silence in the Snow. This model is available in 6 and 7 string configurations and features an exclusive custom Alpine White finish along with white Phenolic fret board.

Can Matt Heafy speak Japanese?

Although Heafy was born in Japan, he only lived there for one year and does not speak Japanese fluently; however, he uses some basic phrases when he performs in Japan.

Did Matt Heafy leave Trivium?

In October 2018, Heafy announced that he would be unavailable for a string of upcoming dates due to his wife’s pregnancy, with Light the Torch frontman Howard Jones, Avatar frontman Johannes Eckerström and YouTube personality Jared Dines taking his place. In September 2020, early Trivium member Brent Young died.

What is Matt Heafy salary?

According to the New York Times – which cites Page’s extensive report on streaming economics – Heafy collects “just under $10,000” a month through his Twitch channel, a figure slightly less than Trivium’s “average of $11,000 a month” from music streaming platforms such as Spotify and Apple Music.

Is Matt Heafy a good guitarist?

Matt Heafy is the founding member and rhythm guitarist for the heavy metal band Trivium. Since the band’s incarnation in 1999, he’s gained a reputation as one of the best and most influential guitar players in metal.

Is Matt Heafy a gamer?

For Heafy, this is a dream come true: he has been into games all of his life and some of his earliest memories, he tells NME in a roundtable interview, revolved around video games.

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