Robert Anthony Plant CBE is an English singer and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist of the English rock band Led Zeppelin for all of its existence from 1968 until 1980. He was inducted with the band into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1995.
In 2007, he began a collaboration with bluegrass artist Alison Krauss, releasing the album Raising Sand, which won the Grammy Award for Album of the Year in 2009 and produced the hit song “Please Read the Letter”, which won the Grammy Award for Record of the Year the same year.
In 2010, he revived the Band of Joy (which shared its name with an early band he performed in the 1960s), and in 2012 formed a new band, the Sensational Space Shifters, followed by a reunion with Alison Krauss in 2019.
In 2008, Rolling Stone editors ranked him number 15 on their list of the 100 best singers of all time. In 2011, Rolling Stone readers ranked Plant the greatest of all lead singers.
Robert Plant Children: Meet Karac Pendragon Plant, Carmen Jane Plant, Jesse Lee Plant, Logan Romero Plant
Plant married Maureen Wilson on 9 November 1968. The couple had three children: daughter Carmen Jane (1968), (who later married Charlie Jones, Plant’s bass player for solo tours); sons Karac Pendragon (1972–1977), and Logan Romero (1979).
Maureen eventually retired early thanks to the success of Zeppelin and spent most of her time looking after their children for which Plant paid her respects on the song’ Thank You from Led Zeppelin II.
In 1977 a parent’s worst nightmare occurred as their second youngest child Karac Pendragon Plant passed away due to an illness at age 5.
Clearly, this had a devastating effect on the couple, Plant questioned his own future and behaviour for the months after as the two grieved.
Plant was actually away on tour in the US when the tragedy occurred, this was too much for his wife, and Plant’s absences due to touring in addition to this tragedy left the two to amicably part while still co-parenting their children.
Eight years after they divorced, in the mid-nineties, Plant ended up having a child named Jesse Lee with Maureen’s sister Shirley, his previous sister-in-law.