Editing Ray Manzarek (section)

== Personal life ==
Manzarek's brothers Rick and Jim Manczarek are musicians, who all played together for [[Rick & the Ravens]]. Manzarek removed the 'C' from his surname Manczarek around when the Doors started playing gigs in 1965.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nightswithalicecooper.com/2020/02/12/the-doors-ray-manzarek-remembered/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230830181610/https://nightswithalicecooper.com/2020/02/12/the-doors-ray-manzarek-remembered/ |url-status=usurped |archive-date=August 30, 2023 |date=February 12, 2020 |title=The Doors' Ray Manzarek Remembered |work=[[Nights with Alice Cooper]] |access-date=May 16, 2021}}</ref>

Manzarek married fellow UCLA alumna Dorothy Aiko Fujikawa in Los Angeles on December 21, 1967, with Morrison and his longtime companion [[Pamela Courson]] attending. Manzarek and Fujikawa remained married until his death. They have a son, Pablo, born on August 28, 1973, and they have three grandchildren.<ref name="Lewis">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-ray-manzarek-dead-doors-keyboardist-obituary-20130520,0,4938231.story|last=Lewis|first=Randy|title=Ray Manzarek Dies at 74; the Doors' Keyboardist|work=[[LATimes.com]]|date=May 20, 2013|access-date=September 25, 2020}}</ref>

In the early 1970s, the Manzareks divided their time between an apartment in [[West Hollywood, California]], and a small penthouse on New York City's [[Upper West Side]].<ref name="Weiss">{{cite web|url=http://passionweiss.com/2013/05/23/when-the-musics-over-one-last-trip-with-ray-manzarek/|last=Weiss|first=Jeff|title=When the Music's Over: One Last Trip with Ray Manzarek|date=May 23, 2013|website=Passionweiss.com|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130625212239/http://passionweiss.com/2013/05/23/when-the-musics-over-one-last-trip-with-ray-manzarek/|access-date=September 25, 2020|archive-date=June 25, 2013}}</ref> They subsequently resided in [[Beverly Hills, California]] (including ten years in a house on [[Rodeo Drive]]), for several decades.<ref name="Weiss" /> For the last decade of his life, Manzarek and his wife lived in a refurbished farmhouse near [[Vichy Springs, Napa County, California|Vichy Springs, California]], in the [[Napa Valley]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Rock-n-roll-retreat-The-Doors-Ray-Manzarek-2798037.php|last=Matteucci|first=Jeannie|date=February 11, 2004|title=Rock 'n' Roll Retreat / The Doors' Ray Manzarek and His Wife Savor Life in Wine Country|website=[[Sfgate.com]]|access-date=January 21, 2020}}</ref>

Manzarek practiced [[Atenism]], an [[ancient Egyptian]] religion last observed in the [[Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt]], after discovering it in [[Sigmund Freud]]'s book ''[[Moses and Monotheism]]''. He also expressed fondness towards [[Jesus Christ]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.thetapesarchive.com/ray-manzarek-article|website=[[thetapesarchive.com]] |title=Ray Manzarek (The Doors) 1998 Article &#124; Marc Allan }}</ref>