Music Rockstar that gained more money with tequila than with its successful records

Throughout the career, Sammy Hagar He has already owned a bicycle store, various restaurants, bars and even nightclubs. In the vacant time, he sang in Van Halen.

Jokes aside, the vocalist has always demonstrated to have tinos for business. His big balcony, however, was when he created the Wabo cablea mark of tequila headed in the Mexico.

In 2007, the musician eventually received a proposal considered undeniable to sell the company to the group Bell. That’s when he realized that he would make more money than with success records made from his old band.

Hagar told Classic Rock (via Music Radar) that the first offer was $ 60 million per 100% of the company’s shares. He refused. When the offer went up to $ 80 million and the singer could still continue with 20% of the brand, it was impossible to say no.

“I thought, ‘I love this company, it is making a lot of money, more than I made at Van Halen, all my life. Why would I want to sell it?’ But then they asked, ‘How much does it cost?’ I said and they simply answered, ‘OK’. If I had refused $ 80 million, someone would have hospitalized me – like, ‘He needs psychiatric treatment!’

Sammy Hagar guarantees: It’s not just by money

Despite considering himself a businessman, Sammy Hagar guarantees that he doesn’t do it only for money. For him, grace is seeing an idea, initially unpretentious, to achieve large proportions.

“If you only think of money, you’ll never be satisfied because money doesn’t satisfy you. It’s the process-seeing something grow from a seed until it becomes a mature tree-which is rewarding. A lot of money on the bank doesn’t satisfy you unless you will count it every day.”

Hagar, who also sang in the Moldinga pioneering American band at Hard/Heavy Rock, concludes by saying that the success of Cape Wabo, his brand of tequila, was no coincidence. He states:

“I hate myself bragging about it, but I have an excellent taste. I can taste and smell certain wines and say that grape it is. But if the wine is bad, I don’t drink. I don’t drink to be drunk. I’m lucky. I know when to stop – with anything – and some people don’t know. My father died alcoholic at 56.”

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