Anderson .Paak files for divorce from wife Jaylyn Chang after 13 years
Anderson .Paak, Jae Lin, Soul Rasheed.
Steve Granitz/WireImageAnderson.Paak filed for divorce from wife Jaylyn Chang on Friday, January 12, after 13 years of marriage.
The Silk Sonic musician (real name Brandon Paak Anderson) cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason he and Chang (sometimes spelled Jae Lin Chang, her legal name is Heyyoun Chang) split, according to court documents obtained by We weekly.
Paak and Chang share two sons, Soul Rasheed, 13, and Shine Tariq, 6, and he is seeking legal and physical custody of the sons.
He requested that the court's ability to award spousal support to himself or Chang be terminated.
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Paak did not record the date of their divorce, but records show the couple tied the knot on November 23, 2010. The musician was very private and did not correct reports that he got married in 2011.
This is Paak's second marriage. In a July 2016 interview with The Breakfast Club, the artist noted that he got married for the first time at age 21 for two years. He called Chang the “only woman who matters.”
Paak said Chang emigrated from Korea with no knowledge of English and they met at the Musicians Institute in Hollywood. Before finding success as a musician, he was hired as a band member for a gospel class, where he met Chang.
“These things that I've been given – like my family, my wife, my son – have all been byproducts or whatever of my passion for music,” Paak explained as he played. The breakfast club.
He added that once he achieved financial success, he gifted Chang a Chanel bag to celebrate.
Chang is also the reason Paak learned more about his Korean heritage, he said Hype beast in an interview in April 2023.
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“My mother is half black and half Korean, so I'm a quarter Korean, but I never knew much about my Korean culture until I married my wife, who is fully Korean,” Paak explains. “My kids pretty much see themselves as Korean. To increase [biracial] Kids, there's a dynamic of 'Okay, you have this side and you have this side' and teaching them about both.”
Chang was described as a singer in a gospel rock band in Paak's March 2021 interview with Esquire. He also noted that they are raising their sons in a bilingual household, speaking both Korean and English.