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Charles was married to his first wife, Eileen Williams, from July 31, 1951 until sometime in 1952. He met his second wife, Della Beatrice Howard Robinson (called "Bea" by Charles), in Texas in 1954. They married the following year, on April 5, 1955. Their first child, Ray Charles Robinson Jr., was born in 1955.
She worked with Atlanta theater company Alliance Theatre for many years before appearing in Ray. [6] Warren landed the role of Aretha Robinson, the mother of Ray Charles, in biopic Ray. [9] The film's director, Taylor Hackford, had witnessed Warren acting in a stage production and had her audition for the role. She won the part, being the only ...
Hendrix eventually became pregnant and gave birth to a son, Charles Wayne Hendrix, on October 1, 1959 in New York City. [2] [4] After she gave birth to Charles Wayne, she tried to convince Charles to leave his wife Della Beatrice Howard and live with her and their son, but Charles refused. Hendrix and the Raelettes continued to perform on ...
The Raelettes (or occasionally The Raelets or The Raeletts) were an American girl group formed in 1958 to provide backing vocals for Ray Charles. They were reformed from the group The Cookies. Between 1966 and 1973, the Raelettes recorded on Tangerine Records as a separate act produced and accompanied by Charles.
Mar. 1—Eileen Hertweck, wife of The Clarks guitarist Rob Hertweck, died on Saturday of leukemia, at the age of 42. The Pittsburgh music community is in mourning. Clarks bass player Greg Joseph ...
Eileen O'Shaughnessy Blair, George Orwell's little-known wife, who died during surgery in 1945 while her husband was in France, is the subject of a necessarily incomplete biography, "Wifedom."
Richard Ramirez, the serial killer who was sentenced to death following his heinous crimes in California, died while on death row in 2013. He was 53.
Ray Charles (born Charles Raymond Offenberg; September 13, 1918 – April 6, 2015) was an American musician, singer, songwriter, vocal arranger and conductor who was best known as organizer and leader of the Ray Charles Singers, who accompanied Perry Como on his records and television shows for 35 years [1] [2] and were also known for a series of 30 choral record albums produced in the 1950s ...