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EXCLUSIVE: 'I'M the daddy!' Singer dismisses claims his son is Michael Jackson's secret lovechild insisting 'his mother never went with anyone else'
Singer Augie Johnson has declared that HE is the real father of Brandon Howard - the man who will today reveal the results of a DNA test that will determine whether he is Michael Jackson's lovechild.
Augie, 65, was one of the backing singers on Michael *****n's 1979 breakthrough album, Off The Wall, and went on form the band, Side Effect.
And speaking to MailOnline today, Augie - who was in a long-term relationship with Brandon's mom, singer Miki Howard - said he very much considers Brandon, now 31, to be his natural son.
Augie had two sons with Miki, Brandon and Nicholas, and breaking his silence on the rumours that Brandon could be the late superstar's son, he said: 'I KNOW Brandon's my son - I was there in the delivery room, I have the pictures of him being born. I got the records, I got everything.
'Before me, Miki wasn't with anyone else - she didn't even know Michael at that time. But you know what - I love my son and he can do whatever he likes. I'm not tripping on this - I want Brandon to have a successful career.'
Speaking from his home in California, Augie admitted that Brandon DID met Michael, who died aged 50 in June 2009, when he was a little boy and had made frequent trips to the star's ranch, Neverland, with his mother or Michael's brother Jermaine, and made friends with the Jackson family children.
However, he said: 'We had a relationship with the Jacksons, an entertainment relationship.
'The first time Brandon will have met the Jacksons is when he was three and Nicholas was one and we went up to Jermaine's office.
'He met Michael a couple of times at his ranch. Miki took them there and sometimes Jermaine took them. Miki had a record and she got more successful and Brandon started hanging out with the Jackson kids.
'Brandon spent a lot of time with Jackson kids over there, this was during the time when Miki and I broke up and she was hating me for a few years because we didn't get married.'
Brandon - once praised as the 'reincarnation of Michael Jackson' - is said to have 'groundbreaking' DNA evidence proving he is the King of Pop's offspring, TMZ reported.
However, Augie said: 'Brandon just happens to be one of those kids - the wannabe Michael kids - his whole life. He loved Michael Jackson so much.
'He wanted to look more like him and he had a little success in Japan, that’s where this whole thing started. It became this mystery that he would never answer.
'It's been a plan for a long time, he wants to help his career, that's what I believe.
'Any kind of controversy that gets out there in the world, right now, helps.'
Miki Howard joined Side Effect as a 16-year-old singer, and asked about any romance with Michael, Augie said: 'She was never romantically involved with Michael. He didn't even know her.'
Now friendly again with Miki, Augie said he spoke to her today, adding: 'Miki thinks Brandon is losing his mind!'