His mother,Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a steel mill worker who performed with an R&B band called The Falcons.
Nne ya Katherine Esther Scruse bụ a devout Onyeàmà Jehova na nna ya Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson bụ onye bụbu oku okpu na a nchara ọrụ na US Steel.