Personal life, family and children of David Bowie

Favorite men and women from the famous rock star David Bowie had a lot, but what to say, but his personal life, albeit always sealed with seven locks, but full of incredible events and frank moments, which curious journalists were able to explore.

A bit of biography and data on the family of David Bowie in childhood

The chameleon of rock music, as his colleagues called him, was born on January 8, 1947 in Brixton, UK. His parents were ordinary employees, mother - cashier, and father - clerk. Since the childhood the future celebrity has shown considerable talents in musical sphere. True, the school failed to get high marks because of the cocky nature of David.

In college, a rock star learned to play on many musical instruments, and this could not but draw attention to him from the environment, especially the opposite sex.

The first wife, family and children of David Bowie

In 1969, the musician met his first wife, Angela Barnett, an American model and actress. They were connected by a mutual friend, Dr. Kelvin Mark Lee. Relations developed quite rapidly and a year later, on March 19, 1970, lovers signed.

May 30, 1971, David was born the first-born son of Duncan Zoe Heywood Jones. To date, we know him as a 44-year-old film director, known to the viewer for the following films: "Source Code" (2011) and "Moon 2112" (2009). He was born in South London, in Beknem hospital. This event made the star daddy so happy that Bowie wrote the song Kooks on this occasion, which was included in the album Hunky Dory.

Returning to the personality of Angela Barnett, it is worth noting that it is believed that she had a considerable influence on Bowie's early creative career. In addition, there used to be numerous rumors that in honor of her Mick Jagger wrote a ballad called Angie.

10 years of their marriage were filled with love, joyful moments and bisexual relationships. Both declared their orientation openly. Moreover, in their interviews they said that they even shared their partners.

February 8, 1980 in Switzerland, the couple broke up. Moreover, after this Barnett stated that the marriage was fictitious, and agreed to a monetary compensation. Interestingly, after six months, on July 24, Angela gave birth to a daughter from punk musician Drew Blood.

The second and last wife of David Bowie

In April 1992, the wife of David Bowie became the Somali and American model Iman Mohamed Abdulmajid. The icon of British rock music has repeatedly admitted that he forgot about all his life principles, rules, when he met this seductive dark-skinned woman.

Both of them had divorced marriages. So, Iman in 1977 was married to a basketball player Spencer Haywood, from whom a year later gave birth to a daughter Zuleikha.

In one of her interviews, Iman was frank: "You know, David's bad name frightened me and at the same time beckoned me. I remember when I met him, it was love at first sight. Although the first five minutes of communication with him, I was very nervous , but then, as it turned out, we have so much in common that we are together to this day. "

On August 15, 2000, the biography of David Bowie was supplemented by another event: his wife Iman gave him a glorious daughter Alexandria Zahri, whom close friends and all family members call Lexie. This birth for the couple became the blessing of heaven. 45-year-old Iman still could not get pregnant , but then she resorted to an old African facility: she held a woman in her arms.

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At the same time, the musician managed to maintain good relations with the child from the first marriage. And, despite the fact that the singer formalized custody of his son only when he was 6 years old, Bowie was happy that at last he became an ideal father for him.