What happened to margie hendricks biography
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Margie Hendrix by Tom de Jong
A small crowd of soul aficionados knows Margie Hendrix (sometimes spelled as "Hendricks") as a superb singer. Only after the movie “Ray”, in which Regina King played her role in a soulful and convincing manner, the general audience learned about Margie’s life and work. She combined small-stature with a big-voice in the tradition of the R&B singers Etta James, Big Maybelle, Ruth Brown and Lavern Baker. She is the reply voice to Ray Charles in songs like “The right track”, “Tell the truth” and especially “Hit the road Jack”.
As the movie details, Margie had a long-lasting affair with Ray and in 1959 their son Charles Wayne was born. With Ray hooked on heroin and Margie keen on bottles of Bols this was a volatile partnership and there was a big argument around 1964. Ray Charles moved to Los Angeles and switched from Atlantic to the major label ABC. He was quite successful in the pop ma
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Restless
A great track by Margie Hendrix that was played frequently at the Manchester Blue Note and Twisted Wheel.
Margie Hendricks was one of The Raelettes – Ray Charles female backing group. She featured on tracks such as Ray Charles: Live at Atlanta 1959 LP.
She is portrayed as Ray Charles’ lover in the film Ray and she had a son bygd him, Charles Hendrix. However, allegedly all of the Raelettes were involved with Ray at one time or other! She tried to get him to leave his wife after she had given birth but that didn’t happen and eventually her behaviour on tours led to him firing her.
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Born: March 13, 1938
Died: July 14, 1973
Margie Hendrix – Raelettes – Wikipedia
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Margie Hendrix
American rhythm and blues singer (1935–1973)
Musical artist
Marjorie Hendrix (sometimes Hendricks) (March 13, 1935 – July 14, 1973)[1] was an American rhythm and blues singer and founding member of the Raelettes, who were the backing singers for Ray Charles, the father of her child, Charles Wayne Hendrix.
She sang lead and background on several of Charles's hit songs of the late 1950s and early 1960s, but after she was ejected from the group in 1964 she attempted a solo career with the labels Mercury Records and Sound Stage 7 before she was dropped from both of them due to her music not charting. She experienced alcoholism, heroin addiction, depression, and poverty until she died in mid 1973 at the age of 38.
[edit]Hendrix was born on March 13, 1935, in Register, Georgia, to the late Kattie and Renzy Hendrix.[1]She was the youngest child out of 3. Her older brother died when she was around 3 years old. During her childhood sh