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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ ˈ b oʊ i / BOH-ee), [1] was an English singer, songwriter, musician and actor. . Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1
Rezin Bowie was born September 8, 1793, near what is now Gallatin, Tennessee, in Sumner County, Southwest Territory. [5] one of ten children born to Rezin Bowie and Elve Ap-Catesby Jones. [6] Bowie was one of twins, with brother Rhesa. [5]
British rock icon David Bowie (born David Jones) was the father of British film director/producer Duncan Jones, with his first wife Angela Bowie. Duncan Jones and his wife, photographer Rodene Ronquillo, have an infant son. David Bowie also fathered a daughter, Lexi, with his second wife, Somali supermodel and activist Iman.
Bowie was the ninth of ten children born to Reason (or Rezin) and Elve Ap-Catesby (née Jones, or Johns) Bowie. [13] His father was wounded while fighting in the American Revolutionary War, and in 1782 he married Elve, the young woman who nursed him back to health. The Bowies first settled in Georgia and then moved to Kentucky.
The world lost a music legend when David Bowie died on Jan. 10, 2016.. The British-born Bowie burst onto the music scene in 1969 with his song “Space Oddity” and spent the next 40 years as one ...
He reverted to his birth name around the age of 18. [10] Jones is the half-brother of Alexandria "Lexi" Jones (born 2000), the daughter of his father and his father's second wife, Iman. He is also the half-brother of Stacia Larranna Celeste Lipka (born 1980) from his mother's relationship with musician Andrew Lipka, better known as Drew Blood.
David Bowie's will was filed in New York City on Friday, and according to Page Six, the rock star left most of his $100 million fortune to wife Iman.
[38] Their son Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones was born on May 30, 1971. He later preferred to be known as Joe or Joey but has reverted to the name Duncan Jones. After nine years of marriage, Angie and David Bowie separated, and they divorced on February 8, 1980, [39] in Switzerland. [40]