His father sent him to live with an aunt, who ran a house of prostitution. After that time, Brown and his father moved to Augusta, Georgia. After his mother abandoned the family, Brown continued to live with his father and his live-in girlfriends until he was six years old.
When he later lived with his aunt and cousin, he was called Little Junior since his cousin's nickname was also Junior.James Brown is of Native American, specifically Apache, descent through his father, and also of African American and Asian ancestry.īrown and his family lived in extreme poverty.When Brown was two years old, his parents separated after his mother left his father for another man.
As a young child, Brown was called Junior. Although Brown was to be named after his father, his name was mistakenly reversed on his birth certificate, and instead became James Joseph Brown, Jr.
James Brown was born to Susie (née Behlings) and Joseph ("Joe") James Gardner (who changed his name to Brown after Mattie Brown who raised him) in the small town of Elko, South Carolina in the Jim Crow South during the Depression era.
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