Bruce Springsteen is The Boss on stage and in his household.
The longtime performer holds the secret to a successful relationship after being married to wife Patti Scialfa since 1991. Springsteen and Scialfa met at a bar, and she quickly became a backup vocalist in Bruce’s E Street Band. They were coworkers for years before things turned romantic in 1988.
“It was the beginning of a beautiful friendship. We had a beer together, sat at a table, and talked,” Scialfa recalled in a 2004 interview with New Jersey Monthly. “After that, I would go down every Sunday and sing, and sometimes he would be there. He knew I lived in New York and that I didn’t have a car, so he would offer to drop me off at my mom’s.”
Before they officially tied the knot, Bruce and Scialfa welcomed their first child, a son named Evan James, in July 1990. The duo has since become parents to two more kids, daughter Jessica Rae and son Samuel Ryan.
Bruce has joked that his kids have “virtually no interest” in his music career. “But as I always say, ‘They don’t need a hero, they need a father,’” he said on The Graham Norton Show in November 2022.
Keep scrolling to meet the members of Bruce’s family:
Bruce was born to parents Adele and Dutch in New Jersey.
Bruce’s father died in 1998 at age 73. “He loved me, but couldn’t stand me,” the musician wrote of his father in his Born to Run memoir released in 2016.
Bruce announced the death of his mom in January 2024, at age 98. He captioned an Instagram video— in which Bruce was dancing with the late Adele — with lyrics from his song “The Wish.”
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Bruce married his first wife, Phillips, in May 1985. They separated in 1988. Their divorce was finalized by the following year.
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After their friendship turned romantic, Bruce and Scialfa got married. They tied the knot in 1991 and share three kids together.
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Bruce and Scialfa’s eldest son was born in July 1990. Evan has since followed in his father’s footsteps and is currently a musician.
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Jessica is Bruce’s only daughter, and she was born in December 1991. Jessica, a professional equestrian, was chosen as a member of the United States’ equestrian team at the 2021 Tokyo Olympics and took home a silver medal.
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Bruce and Scialfa welcomed their youngest son in January 1994. He has been a firefighter in the state of New Jersey since 2019.
Samuel became a father to daughter Lily Harper Springsteen in 2022.
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