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SkyBlu (left) and Redfoo in 2010, Joe Seer/ bigstock.com

Birth Name: Skyler Austen Gordy

Place of Birth: Los Angeles, California, United States

Date of Birth: August 23, 1986

Ethnicity:
*African-American (father)
*English (mother)

SkyBlu is an American musician. He makes up the pop group LMFAO, with his half-uncle Redfoo. Both SkyBlu and Redfoo are biracial, as their fathers are black and their mothers are white (SkyBlu and Redfoo’s father are half-brothers).

SkyBlu is the son of Berry Gordy IV and Valerie Robeson.

SkyBlu’s paternal grandfather is producer Berry Gordy, Jr. (the son of Berry Gordy and Bertha Fuller). SkyBlu’s grandfather Berry was born in Michigan.

SkyBlu’s paternal grandmother is named Thelma Louise Coleman. Thelma is also African-American.

SkyBlu is the brother of singer and actress Mahogany Lox. He is a second cousin of actress Bianca Lawson, through their paternal great-grandparents Berry Gordy and Bertha Fuller.

SkyBlu is a half-second cousin, twice removed, of President Jimmy Carter. SkyBlu is descended from President Carter’s (white) great-grandfather, James Thomas Gordy, from his relationship with a black woman, Esther Johnson (President Carter is descended from James’s white wife, Harriet Emily Helms). President Carter and music producer Berry Gordy are half-second cousins.

Contribution from Aps

Sources: Genealogy of Redfoo – https://www.geni.com

Genealogy of Redfoo (focusing on his father’s side) – https://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com

Genealogy of Berry Gordy III (focusing on his own father’s side) – https://famouskin.com


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