“We cried with happiness”
Pop star Jack White experiences the joys of fatherhood at 83
October 30, 2023, 10:03 p.m
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With hits like “A new love is like a new life” and “Looking For Freedom”, Jack White is one of Germany’s most successful music producers. Now the musician is happy to have offspring again – at the age of 83.
Pop king Jack White has become a father for the seventh time. “The girl is perfectly healthy. Rafaella and I cried with happiness,” said the 83-year-old to the “Bild” newspaper. According to the report, his daughter was born in the morning via cesarean section and is said to be named Angelina Melody.
“We are in seventh heaven!” said White to “Bunten”. “Now it’s a fact that I loudly Wikipedia list of the oldest fathers, I am the only one out of over 7.9 billion people who has two children in the top ten living late fathers!”
White and his wife Rafaella, who is 44 years his junior, have been married since 2015. It is the musician’s fourth marriage. Their son Max was born in 2019. He is White’s sixth child. The musician, whose real name is Horst Nußbaum, has another son and four daughters as well as two grandchildren.
“We never expected that Max would have another little sister,” White told the “Bild” newspaper. “I think God wanted it that way. It all happened naturally. We just made love.”
White, who was born in Cologne, is one of the most successful German music producers. Before his hitting career, he played as a footballer for clubs such as Viktoria Köln, PSV Eindhoven and Tennis Borussia Berlin. He later wrote hits for pop greats such as Tony Marshall, Roberto Blanco and Roland Kaiser. Among other things, he is responsible for Jürgen Marcus’s “A new love is like a new life”, David Hasselhoff’s “Looking For Freedom” and the German national team’s “Football is our life”.