Getting The Jump On Stardom
March, 1987
Pop-and-soul heartthrob Freddie Jackson, 28, almost made a highly premature stage debut. His mother—his very pregnant mother—was on stage singing Gospel. "And during the middle of her concert, she went into labor. Luckily, there was a hospital just around the corner from the concert hall. That's why people like to say that I was born to sing." Jackson grew up in a Gospel household; his mother is a Gospel singer, as was her mother before her. Balking at such a heritage, Jackson went to...
