Confidence votes 15. With prize appearances and endorsements an athlete who is in the top ten worldwide in premiere events (short sprints, horizontal jumps, 1500 meters, marathon) could make between $100,000 - $500,000 per year. Most track & field athletes make significantly less however.
Mike Epps was born on November 18, 1970, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Growing up, he split time between Indianapolis, where he lived in a house with his mother and eight siblings, and Gary, Indiana, where his spent summers in his grandparents' home.
Joey grew up in a Brooklyn household where classical music and opera formed the soundtrack. A natural musician, he was infatuated with The Beatles, taught himself guitar at age 10 and played piano by ear at 16.