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 and Redfoo make up the pop group LMFAO. Both SkyBlu and his uncle 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 Berry Gordy, Jr., the producer mentioned above (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