Damita Jo DuBlanc

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Damita Jo DeBlanc (a.k.a. Damita Jo, 5 August 1930 – 25 December 1998) was an American actress, comedian, and lounge music performer. Katherine Jackson, the mother of the famous Jackson family musical clan, named her youngest daughter Janet Damita Jo Jackson after Damita Jo, who was her favorite singer.

[edit] Background

DeBlanc was born in Austin, Texas the featured vocalist on recordings from Steve Gibson and the Red Caps during the 1950s. She later went on to marry Gibson, but they parted ways professionally and personally in 1959.

DeBlanc had a pair of Top 20 R&B singles in 1960 and 1961, and was later involved in comedy. She was also part of the television series which featured Redd Foxx.

In 1998, she suffered a respiratory illness and died on Christmas day in Baltimore, Maryland.