Damita Jo DuBlanc

Damita Jo DuBlanc

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.

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.

Credited as simply Damita Jo, DeBlanc had some chart success in the early 1960s with two answer songs: 1960's "I'll Save the Last Dance for You" (an answer to "Save the Last Dance for Me") and 1961's "I'll Be There" (an answer to "Stand By Me"). Both songs made the R&B top 20, and "I'll Be There" also reached number 12 on the pop chart. She later had a minor hit with a cover of the Jacques Brel song "If You Go Away." Damita Jo was later involved in comedy and 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.

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