Chesney Henry “Chet” Baker Jr. was born on December 23, 1929, in Yale, Oklahoma, United States. He was an American jazz trumpeter and vocalist. He is known for major innovations in cool jazz that led him to be nicknamed the “Prince of Cool”.
Baker was found dead on the street below his room in Hotel Prins Hendrik, Amsterdam, with serious wounds to his head, apparently having fallen from the second-story window on May 13, 1988.
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Chet Baker had had several relationships before his untimely death. He had been married three times already and had four children in all.
He first married Charlaine Souder, got divorced then married Halema Alli and still got a divorce. He later married Carol Jackso with whom he had four children with; Chesney III with Halema; and Dean, Paul, and Melissa.
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Ruth Young was Baker’s common-law wife from 1973 to the time of his death in 1988.
