Boy George Parents: Meet Dinah O’Dowd, Jeremiah O’Dowd

George Alan O’Dowd, known professionally as Boy George, is an English singer, songwriter, DJ, fashion designer, mixed media artist, photographer, and record producer. He is the lead singer of the pop band Culture Club.

Meet Dinah O’Dowd, Jeremiah O’Dowd

Boy George was born George Alan O’Dowd at Barnehurst Hospital, Kent, England, on 14 June 1961 and raised in Eltham, the second of five children born to builder[5] Jerry O’Dowd (born Jeremiah; 1932–2004) and Dinah O’Dowd (born Christina Glynn; 1939).

He was raised in a working-class Irish Catholic family; his father was born in England of Irish descent and his mother is from Dublin. He has one older brother Kevin, as well as two younger brothers Gerald and David, and a younger sister Siobhán.

George also has an older half-brother Richard, who was born out of wedlock in Dublin in 1957 when his mother was just 18; she moved to London with him to start a new life and escape the stigma of being an unmarried mother.