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The rapper and record executive known today as Birdman was born
Bryan Christopher Brooks on February 15th, 1969 at Charity Hospital
in New Orleans, Louisiana. Due to his father, Johnnie Williams, not
signing his son’s birth certificate, Bryan would adopt his mother
Gladys’ surname of Brooks. Far more unusual than that however, was
the fact that for the first 30-days of his life, Bryan wasn’t given
a first name at all and was simply referred to as “Baby” by those
closest to him -- a nickname he would continue to use well into his
adult life. As a kid, Bryan and his family lived on top of a bar
that his father owned. Unfortunately, his mother was struck down by
illness in 1975 when he was only five. After this tragic turn of
events, Bryan and his three siblings, Kim, Ronald, and Ray were
taken in by their Uncle and spent the next two years living in
Prince George, British Columbia – a fast growing logging town that
was on its way to becoming the second largest city in the province
and one with more millionaires per capita than anywhere else in
Canada.