James Brown’s daughters still get DMs from his fans ‘all the time,’ almost 20 years after his death

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James Brown: Say it Loud.” “They don’t even realize, ‘I don’t speak your language, baby. You gotta talk to me in English.'”Yamma, 51, said she is always touched to learn that Brown, who was called “the Hardest-Working Man in Show Business,” took time to chat it up with his fan base. “Most people say, ‘I met him and we got a chance to talk’” she told The Post ahead of the premiere of the docuseries, which airs on Feb.

19 and 20. The Brown girls, who are both based in Aiken, S.C., pay homage to their dad, who died in 2006 at 73 after contracting pneumonia, with their Instagram handles — Deanna’s is @jamesbrowndaughter and Yamma’s, @daughterofsoul.Brown, who grew up extremely poor in Georgia and only had a 7th-grade education, was put in a juvenile prison at 15 for car theft and later in his life was arrested multiple times for drugs, weapons and domestic violence. “I grew up, of course seeing the love, but also seeing the hurt that he caused my mom by abusing her,” Yamma recalls in the docuseries.The women said their mother, Deidre Jenkins, who was married to Brown from 1970 to 1981, is “doing well” but was not interested in being a part of the docuseries.“My mom is in that part of her life [where] this kind of stuff does not faze her.

It’s like, ‘Y’all go do that for you, daddy. That’s real nice. Enjoy and have fun,'” said Deanna. They said their mother doesn’t always get the recognition she deserves. “She was there during the high prime of his life and was very, very instrumental in a lot of different things.

But she kind of stayed behind the scenes, she wasn’t one to be on the stage. She was happy raising her two daughters and being Mrs.