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Garland then learned he was the biological father after Tupac was born in 1971. He remained in Tupac's life until 1976; at that time, he lost contact with Afeni completely. For the next three years he tried to track down Afeni but gave up. Afterwards Garland would get married and distance himself from the party to raise his family in New Jersey.
While Afeni was married to Lumumba, she met Tupac’s biological father Billy Garland at a friend's apartment in Manhattan. Around the same time as Afeni and Garland’s initial meeting, Afeni and ...
William May Garland (1866–1948), real estate developer in Los Angeles; William McKinley “Red” Garland Jr. (1923–1984), American jazz pianist; Billy Garland (1918–1960), American blues musician; Billy Garland (activist) (born 1949), former Black Panther and biological father of Tupac Shakur
Shakur's parents, Afeni Shakur—born Alice Faye Williams (January 10, 1947 – May 2, 2016), in North Carolina—and his biological father, William "Billy" Garland (born March 14, 1949), had been active Black Panther Party members in New York in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [37]
Garland's tragic story was told in "Crazy," a 2008 film starring country singer Waylon Payne as Garland and Ali Larter as his wife. Billy Garland died in 2021. With Helms, Hank Garland, Beal and ...
Former President Barack Obama's family was the subject of a recent article stating a man had filed a lawsuit claiming he was the biological father of Obama's daughters, Sasha and Malia.
Following her son's death, Tupac's biological father Billy Garland attempted to inherit half of his estate, which Shakur opposed because Garland was an "absentee father who contributed little to Tupac's upbringing." [40] A judge denied his claim. [40]
Much of Garland's output was recorded from 1940 until 1950, including 1945's "Got Nothing on Me". Garland was born in Flowood, Mississippi , and died in 1960 in a car accident in Chicago . He is not the same Billy Garland (born Mulberry, Arkansas ; who released a country music CD in 2002) and who was inducted into the Rockabilly Hall of Fame .