Anderson .Paak filed for divorce from spouse Jaylyn Chang on Friday, January 12, after 13 years of marriage.
The Silk Sonic musician (actual title Brandon Paak Anderson) cited “irreconcilable differences” as the explanation he and Chang (occasionally spelled Jae Lin Chang, her criminal title is Heyyoun Chang) broke up, in line with court docket paperwork got by means of Us Weekly.
Paak and Chang percentage two sons, Soul Rasheed, 13, and Shine Tariq, 6, and he's asking to percentage criminal and bodily custody of sons.
He asked to terminate the court docket’s skill to award himself or Chang any spousal improve.
Paak didn't observe their date of separation, however the medical doctors divulge that the couple tied the knot on November 23, 2010. The musician has been very personal and didn’t proper reviews that he married in 2011.
That is Paak’s 2d marriage. In a a July 2016 interview with The Breakfast Membership, the performer famous that he used to be married for the primary time at age 21 for 2 years. He referred to Chang because the “only wife that matters”.
Paak stated Chang immigrated from Korea with out a wisdom of English and so they met on the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Prior to he discovered luck as a musician, he used to be employed as a band member for a gospel magnificence, which is the place he met Chang.
“These things that I’ve gotten — like, my family, my wife, my son — have all been byproducts or whatever of my passion for music,” Paak defined whilst on The Breakfast Membership.
He added that once he discovered monetary luck, he talented Chang a Chanel bag to have a good time.
Chang could also be the explanation Paak has realized extra about his Korean heritage, he informed Hypebeast in an April 2023 interview.
“My mom is half Black and half Korean, so I’m a quarter Korean, but I never knew much about my Korean culture until when I was married to my wife, who is fully Korean,” Paak defined. “My kids pretty much see themselves as Korean. Raising [biracial] kids, there’s a dynamic of ‘all right, you got this side and you got this side’ and teaching ‘em about both.”
Chang used to be described as a singer in a gospel rock band in Paak’s March 2021 interview with Esquire. He additionally famous that they carry their sons in a bilingual family, talking each Korean and English.