![]() ![]() Gordy began coaching her and would accompany John on piano at local engagements. ![]() ![]() Gordy again, who told Mable that her son, Berry, was writing songs and was looking for people to record them. Later, she left the company and spent two years at Lewis Business College. After graduating, she took a job as an insurance representative at Friendship Mutual Insurance Agency, a company run by Berry Gordy's mother, Bertha. She attended Cleveland Intermediate School, and then Pershing High School. In 1941, after her father was able to secure a better job, the family moved to Detroit, where two additional brothers were born. At a very young age, she and her parents moved north into Arkansas, where her father got a job in a paper mill near Cullendale, where four of Mable's brothers (including R&B singer Little Willie John) and two sisters were born. John was born in Bastrop, Louisiana, the eldest of at least nine siblings. Mable John (born November 3, 1930) is an American blues vocalist and was the first female signed by Berry Gordy to Motown's Tamla label. ![]()
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