James Brown’s daughter Venisha Brown dies at 53 in Georgia from pneumonia complications

James Brown’s daughter Venisha Brown dies at 53 in Georgia from pneumonia complications

A daughter of the late Godfather of Soul James Brown has died at 53.

Venisha Brown died Wednesday at Augusta University Health Medical Center in Augusta due to complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from the James Brown Family Foundation.

A songwriter and musician, Brown was active in the foundation and is remembered as the person ‘who fully embodied the dance moves of her father,’ who died on Christmas Day 2006.

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Sad: Venisha Brown, 53, died Wednesday at Augusta University Health Medical Center in Augusta due to complications from pneumonia, according to a news release from the James Brown Family Foundation 

Venisha, whose mother was singer Yvonne Fair, was remembered by her half-sister Yamma Brown in an Instagram post with a shot of the pair posed at a hockey rink.

‘My beautiful big sis Venisha has received her angels wings…my heart is broken but I am comforted by the peace you now have!!!’ Yamma wrote. ‘I love you sis.’

The foundation said Brown’s family thanked everyone for their ‘prayers and telephone calls,’ but asked for privacy.

Funeral arrangements are pending, but in lieu of flowers, the family asks for donations to the James Brown Academy of Musik Pupils, a musical, instrumental, initiative year-round educational hub designed for the youth to discover their musical ability.

Icon: James Brown was snapped in October 2004, just more than a year before his death

Icon: James Brown was snapped in October 2004, just more than a year before his death

Remembered: Venisha was remembered by her half-sister Yamma Brown in an Instagram post with a shot of the pair posed at a hockey rink 

Remembered: Venisha was remembered by her half-sister Yamma Brown in an Instagram post with a shot of the pair posed at a hockey rink 

Venisha was born in California, and grew up there, going to Hollywood High School, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. She visited her James each summer, and eventually moved to Georgia in 1997, the paper reported.

Yamma told the paper Venisha ‘struggled with addiction, which most people know, a lot of her adult life’ and that James ‘was her support structure for a lot of years.’ 

Venisha had overcome her addiction issues in the years before her passing, the paper reported.

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