American songwriter and pianist, Georgia On My Mind singer Ray Charles was married twice. Charles’s first marriage lasted less than a year, while his second went as far as 22 years.
Notwithstanding, there were several relationships Charles had in-between these two marriages, and the result?
As prolific as the number of albums a single career could afford!
Ray Charles fathered12 children with ten different women. You read right. 10!
Charles did not have children in his first relatively short-lived marriage to Eileen Williams.
With his second wife, Della Beatrice Howard Robinson, whom Charles called Bea, Charles had three sons: Ray Jr, born in 1955; David, born in 1958; and Robert, born in 1960.
Prior to life with Bea, Charles’s first child was a girl named Evelyn, born to him and partner Louise Flowers in 1949.
All in all, Charles had six children with other women during his marriage to Bea, in addition to the three children he had with her, making a total of nine in his second marriage. 3 other children were born to Charles, including a son by the Raelettes member Margie Hendricks, amounting to 12 children in total.
