Margie Hendrix

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Marjorie Hendrix (sometimes spelled "Hendricks") (March 13, 1935 – July 14, 1973) 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 vocals in 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 making the charts. She battled alcoholism, heroin addiction, depression, and financial instability. She died in 1973, at the age of 38.

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