Personal Life
On April 14, 2007, he married his fiancée Karen James onstage during his performance at the New Orleans French Quarter Festival. This was the couples' second vow exchange of the day as they had earlier been married in a Catholic ceremony at St Peter Claver Church. A reception was held at The Parish at The House of Blues. The couple had their first daughter together a year earlier, aptly named Kaylin Orleans Ruffins. Ruffins also has children from a previous marriage.
Ruffins has said he loves drinking Bud Light beer and smoking cannabis, stating that Amsterdam is his second favorite place to perform outside of New Orleans due to its many legal coffee shops that sell premium grade cannabis and hashish. He is also a good friend—and sometime local competitor of—Irvin Mayfield, a fellow New Orleans trumpeter.
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