Tito Jackson Tito Jackson Toriano Adaryll "Tito" Jackson (born October 15, 1953) is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Jackson was an original member of The Jackson 5 and The Jacksons, who rose to fame in the late 1960s and 1970s with the Motown label, and later recorded as a solo artist on the Epic label in the late 1970s and 1980s. Tito is the third child in the Jackson family. Toriano Adaryll Jackson was born the third of ten children in a black working-class family who lived in a three-room house in Gary, Indiana. His father, Joseph, was a steel mill worker.
Standing in the Shadows of Motown Standing in the Shadows of Motown Standing in the Shadows of Motown is a 2002 documentary film directed by Paul Justman that recounts the story of The Funk Brothers, the uncredited and largely unheralded studio musicians who were the house band that Berry Gordy hand-picked in 1959. The Funk Brothers recorded and performed on Motowns' recordings from 1959 to 1972. The film was inspired by the 1989 book "Standing in the Shadows of Motown: The Life and Music of Legendary Bassist James Jamerson", a bass guitar instruction book by Allan Slutsky, which features the bass lines of James Jamerson. The