Dancehall Superstar Shaggy Buys $2 Million Home In Florida – See Inside Photos
Jamaican Reggae/Dancehall superstar Shaggy has purchased a home near the ocean in Coral Cables, Florida for $2.15 million.
The home sits on a half-acre plot in the affluent Cocoplum community, according to the LA Times. Latin singer Marc Anthony is currently selling his $27 million mansion in the community, the newspaper notes.
The two-time Grammy Award winner’s new home spans 5,800 square feet wrapped around an interesting central open-air courtyard that features a fountain and mermaid statue.
Inside includes 5 bedrooms and 4.5 baths on a split-level floor plan, and a formal living room with large windows and vaulted ceilings. The chef’s kitchen comes with custom made maple cabinetry, solid slab granite countertops, and Miele, Sub-Zero and Gaggenau appliances.
“Additional home features include a formal dining room, open and covered terraces, covered bar area with built-in BBQ, steam room and bath, and a 2 car garage,” notes a listing for the property, which was sold on January 21, 2020.
Outside, the It Wasn’t Me singer’s new digs includes a “leafy” backyard with dense landscaping and palm trees. A patio wraps around a swimming pool and spa.
The spacious and elegant home was built in 1981, and had a new roof installed last year, according to the listing.
Douglas Elliman, a national real estate company, held the listing, while Miami-based Fortune Worldwide Realty represented Shaggy.
Shaggy, whose real name is Orville Richard Burrell, left Jamaica for the United States when he turned 18 and later joined the US Marines where he served honorably in the first Gulf War. He received his US citizenship later in life after years of success in music.
During an Instagram Live chat with Jamaican-American Florida attorney Marlon Hill last year, the Bombastic singer revealed that he was registered to vote for the first time in the United States.
“I just registered to vote this year, for the first time,” Shaggy said. “When you’re younger you don’t really think about certain things, but as you get older – I’m 52-years-old now and I have kids that wanna go to college and all that – you think about what the opportunity means and what I fought for and risked my life for.”
Shaggy and his wife Rebecca Packer Burrell, an art director, will celebrate their seventh wedding anniversary this year. The couple had been together for 16 years before they got married in a private ceremony in 2014. They share three daughters – Sydney, 13, and twins Madison and Kelsey, 9. The singer has two sons from a previous relationship – Richard, 25, and Tyler, 22.
He has released fourteen studio albums and seven compilation albums, which have earned him seven Grammy Award nominations. He won the Best Reggae Album award twice with Boombastic in 1996 and 44/876 with Sting in 2019. His last projects were Hot Shot 2020 , an update to his 6x Multi-Platinum album Hot Shot to mark its 20th anniversary, and a Christmas Reggae album, Christmas In The Islands , which featured Shenseea, Bounty Killer, Beenie Man, Ne-Yo, Ding Dong, and others.
With his success in music, the singer founded the Shaggy Make A Difference Foundation which stages the Shaggy and Friends concert series to support the Bustamante Hospital for Children in Jamaica.
Shaggy’s purchase comes after eight-time Grammy winner Stephen Marley, purchased a lush 5.6-acre estate near Miami for $3.4 million last month. That Homestead estate was also built in 1981 and included a main house and two guesthouses with a total of seven bedrooms and 8.5 baths over 9,873 square feet of living space.
