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Before the group signed with Motown, Jackie wanted to pursue a career in professional baseball. Within two years, the group emerged professionally, signing with Motown in 1968. Katherine used to sing harmonies with the brothers. Jackie gives his mother Katherine credit saying "there wouldn’t have been The Jackson 5 without her". Joe saw that their talent could get them out of Gary, and that a better future was within reach. The brothers rehearsed avidly every day after school under Joes lead, keeping themselves busy and out of trouble. Younger brothers Marlon and Michael played assorted percussive instruments.īy 1964, Joe made Michael the lead singer forming the Jackson 5 after Katherine discovered that Michael was a great singer. Father, Joseph, formed the Jackson Brothers singing group, which included Jackie and his brothers Tito and Jermaine. Their mother, Katherine was a devout Jehovah's Witness who played the clarinet and piano. Father, Joseph worked at a steel mill, and at night he played in an R&B band called The Falcons with his brother Luther.
He and his brothers Michael, Marlon, Tito, Jermaine, Randy Jackson and sisters Rebbie, La Toya and Janet were brought up in a tiny two-bedroom house in Gary, Indiana, an industrial steel city south of Chicago.
He was given the nickname Jackie by his grandfather Samuel Jackson. Sigmund Esco Jackson was born at St Mary's Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana, on his mother Katherine's 21st birthday in 1951.