Family
In 1953, he married Marjorie "Elsie" Lines, with whom he adopted a son called Tyrone in March 1962. Divorced from Elsie in 1968, he was later married for nineteen years to Valerie Green, with whom he had two children, and later had a relationship with Betsy Pollard (d. 1998), a common-law wife.
Kitchener's son, Kernal Roberts, is also a performer, playing drums for the biggest soca band in the country, Xtatik. He is also their musical director and composer of the 2006 Road March.
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Famous quotes containing the word family:
“Happy or unhappy, families are all mysterious. We have only to imagine how differently we would be described—and will be, after our deaths—by each of the family members who believe they know us.”
—Gloria Steinem (b. 1934)
“The family: I believe more unhappiness comes from this source than from any other—I mean the attempt to prolong family connection unduly, and to make people hang together artificially who would never naturally do so.”
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—F. Scott Fitzgerald (1896–1940)