Robert Plant's Children: All About the Led Zeppelin Singer’s Kids — and How He Honors His Late Son Karac’s Memory

The former Led Zeppelin lead singer is a father to Carmen, Logan, Jesse and late son Karac

Robert Plant is a rock star to the world, but his children know him best as a supportive dad.

The frontman of the legendary rock band Led Zeppelin, Plant is an eight-time Grammy winner with 11 studio albums under his belt. He also received the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2005.

In his personal life, Plant married Maureen Wilson in 1968, and the couple welcomed three children: Karac Pendragon, Carmen Jane and Logan Romero. After they divorced, Plant had his fourth child, son Jesse Lee, in 1991 with Wilson’s sister, Shirley Wilson.

Karac died in 1977 at age 5 of a stomach illness. Plant said in a 2024 interview on The Big Interview with Dan Rather that it “wasn’t easy” to get through the loss and his family "pulled tight together."

After living and traveling around the United States, particularly the South, in the early 2010s, Plant settled back in England, feeling the pull of his roots and loved ones.

"I've got some great kids, and guess what? They've got great kids," he told NPR in 2014, adding, “I think I could continue forever as this sort of Peter Pan whizzing around, but I realize that the value of my time is of huge, huge importance. And I had to reconvene with everything that I'd taken for granted previously."

Here’s everything to know about Robert Plant's children: Carmen, late son Karac, Logan and Jesse.

Carmen Jane Jones

Plant and Maureen welcomed their first child, daughter Carmen Jane, in October 1968.

She grew up in a farmhouse in England’s Black Country, where the family had a dog named Strider and several goats. The rock star told Contact Music in 2007 that he regretted how much he was on the road when Carmen was little, as she didn’t recognize him when he arrived home from long tours.

Carmen married Charlie Jones, a bassist for Plant and Jimmy Page among many others, on May 18, 1991. They share three children together, including daughter Sunny Jones.

Like her father, Carmen is a performer. She is a belly dancer and has traveled around the world learning and teaching the art form. In 2018, before presenting a live show in Devon, England, Carmen told Devon Live that her passion is “performing with live music.”

“I come from a musical family, obviously through my dad, my husband and my children as well,” she said. “Thanks to my dad, I grew up listening to an alternative and eclectic range from a young age and that really provided the inspiration for me to get involved with all kinds of music. It’s all that I’ve known really, so it’s great that I can put this all in to practice.”

Karac Pendragon Plant

Plant and Maureen’s second child and first son, Karac Pendragon, was born in 1972.

Karac died of a stomach infection in 1977, when he was 5. At the time, Plant was on tour in the U.S. with Led Zeppelin. The band scrapped their show schedule after Karac’s death, and Plant returned home to England to be with his wife and daughter.

He considered throwing in the musical towel altogether until friend and bandmate John Bonham — who Plant said was supportive after Karac’s death — convinced him otherwise.

“I’d spent so much time trying to be a decent dad, but at the same time I was really attracted to what I was doing in Zeppelin. So when [Karac] bowed out, I just thought: ... ‘Would it have been any different if I was there?’ ” Plant told Classic Rock magazine.

He continued, “So I was thinking about the merit of my life at that time, and whether or not I needed to put a lot more into the reality of the people that I loved and cared for — my daughter and my family generally.”

The Led Zeppelin singer wrote at least two songs in tribute to Karac: “All My Love,” off Led Zeppelin’s 1979 album, In Through the Out Door, and “I Believe,” which was released on Plant’s 1993 solo album, Fate of Nations.

While on The Big Interview with Dan Rather, Plant said that “All My Love,” which he co-wrote with bandmate John Paul Jones, “was just paying tribute to the joy that he [Karac] gave us as a family and, in a crazy way, still does occasionally.”

“Every now and again he turns up in songs for no other reason than I miss him a lot,” Plant added. During the same interview, he described Karac as a “little nature boy” and “mountain man.”

Logan Romero Plant

Plant and Maureen’s third child, son Logan Romero, was born in January 1979.

The rocker has opened up about how Logan's birth was a blessing after the loss of Karac but also how his grief was entangled with his joy. “We were blessed with another boy who came along about two years later and the two images are blurred,” Plant told host Dan Rather in 2024. “The definition between Karac and Logan is ... it’s a tough one to chip through the two things.”

Logan grew up watching his dad onstage as a solo artist, as Led Zeppelin disbanded when he was a baby. It wasn’t until he was about 12 that his father gave him a Led Zeppelin album on cassette, and he realized his dad was “this singer in this amazing bombastic sound," as he told Master of Malt in 2020.

“Ever since then, I’m one of their biggest fans, they’re my favorite band,” Logan added. “And most importantly, he’s just a damn good bloke.”

Logan attended the University of Wales, where he majored in sports science. He played soccer in his teens and 20s, including for the League of Wales’ Inter Cardiff Football Club. He then sang in two bands, Black Country Bandits and Sons of Albion. Logan told The Standard in 2020 that “the music industry is so difficult to get into,” even with a famous father, and neither band got signed, but after eight years in music, he “had so much energy to put into something — anything.”

He has also modeled, including a summer campaign with Mr Porter, and assisted his father as a cameraman on Zirka, Plant’s 2003 documentary on Malian music.

Touring the U.S. with Sons of Albion introduced Logan to American craft beer, which led him to create Duke’s Brew & Que, a brewpub he opened with his wife, Bridget Emma Smith Plant, in 2011. The BBQ joint also housed their brewing project, Beavertown Brewery, which was bought by Heineken in 2022 after the company previously took a minority stake in 2018.

Logan, who started as a homebrewer, transitioned from chief executive to an adviser after the buyout. He told Master of Malt his dad is “very supportive as a parent and loves Beavertown."

“I remember, as a little kid, wanting to try a sip of his pint and thinking it was disgusting. When I got to 18, we’d go to pubs together and it was a good bonding experience,” he told The Guardian in 2017. “Hanging out with my dad and his middle-aged, hilarious mates was great. I was lucky enough to travel and catch up with him wherever he might be on the road.”

Logan and his future wife, Bridget, met at age 4 at the Steiner School in Stourbridge, England, as he told The Standard. They were in classes together for two years until Bridget left, became reacquainted at age 15 at a Boxing Day party and wed when Logan was 25. They share two children, son Harland and daughter Tallulah.

Logan has been spotted out and about with his dad over the years, including with Carmen at Plant’s 2009 Commander of the British Empire (CBE) ceremony, a 2018 Premiere League match between the Wolverhampton Wanderers and Manchester City and at the London film premiere of Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day in 2012. The latter was also attended by Carmen, Sunny and Bridget.

Jesse Lee Plant

Plant and Shirley welcomed their son Jesse Lee in 1991.

While Jesse leads a private life out of the spotlight, he was one of the reasons for his dad's return to England after spending time in the U.S.

In the early 2010s, Plant was working with American singer-songwriter Patty Griffin and was surrounded “by some incredible musicians” and “embraced” the musical scene across the pond, as he told Classic Rock magazine.

But his family eventually called him back to the U.K. “I kept on looking back home and wondering how it was with my kids and my mates,” Plant said.