James Brown family, wife, children, parents, siblings

James Brown’s name was supposed to have been Joseph James Brown, but his first and middle names were mistakenly reversed on his birth certificate.

The late famous James Brown was an American entertainer, record producer, and bandleader. The central progenitor of funk music and a major figure of 20th-century music, he is often referred to by the honorific nicknames “the Hardest Working Man in Show Business”, “Godfather of Soul”, “Mr. Dynamite”, and “Soul Brother No. 1”.

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James Brown wife

Brown was married four times. His first marriage was to Velma Warren in 1953, and they had one son together. Over a decade later, the couple separated and the final divorce decree was issued in 1969.

Brown’s second marriage was to Deidre “Deedee” Jenkins, on October 22, 1970. They had two daughters together. By 1979 they were separated after what his daughter describes as years of domestic abuse and the final divorce decree was issued on January 10, 1981. His third marriage was to Adrienne Lois Rodriguez on March 9, 1950, to January 6, 1996, in 1984. It was a contentious marriage that made headlines due to domestic abuse complaints.

Rodriguez filed for divorce in 1988, “citing years of cruelty treatment”, but they reconciled. Less than a year after Rodriguez died in 1996, Brown hired Tomi Rae Hynie to be a background singer for his band; she later claimed that she was his fourth wife. On December 23, 2002, Brown, 69, and Hynie, 33, held a wedding ceremony that was officiated by the Rev. Larry Flyer.

James Brown children

Brown had numerous children and acknowledged nine of them, including five sons namely Teddy born in 1954 and passed away in 1973, Terry, Larry, Daryl, and James Joseph Brown Jr., and four daughters namely Lisa, Dr. Yamma Noyola Brown Lumar, Deanna Brown Thomas, and Venisha Brown who was born in 1964 and died in 2018.

James Brown parents

Brown was born on May 3, 1933, in Barnwell, South Carolina, to 16-year-old Susie and 21-year-old Joseph Gardner Brown in a small wooden shack. In his autobiography, Brown stated that he had Chinese and Native American ancestry and that his father was of mixed African-American and Native American descent, while his mother was of mixed African-American and Asian descent.

James Brown siblings

Brown seems to be the only child of his parents because we could not get any information about his siblings, that is if he has any.

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