Love Comes Quickly. In a exclusive interview, Cindy Charles – 2nd wife of singer Ray Charles – came clean about what she says is Ray’s ‘biggest secret.’ Cindy, who is the mother of 2 of Ray Charles’ 12 children, says that Charles was not actually blind. Della Beatrice Howard Robinson is the ex-wife of popular American pop singer, music composer and songwriter Ray Charles Robinson, who is also ranked as “ 100 greatest singers of all time “in American pop culture magazine Rolling stone. Della Beatrice Howard Robinson … Della Beatrice Robinson, or just “Bea,” first met Charles when she became one … Williams and his second wife was called Della Beatrice Howard Robinson. “I didn’t know Ray when he was a child, but I can tell you what he told me,” said Cindy Charles. Ray Charles was married twice.