Albert Leornes Greene was born on April 13, 1946, in Forrest City, Arkansas. Al Greene, the sixth of ten children born to sharecropper Cora Lee and Robert G. Greene, Jr., began performing in a trio called the Greene Brothers with his sister when he was about ten years old.
The Greenes relocated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, in the late 1950s. When Al was in his teens, his devoutly religious father discovered him listening to Jackie Wilson and kicked him out of the house. He subsequently started hustling, lived with a prostitute, and experimented with narcotics.
Who is Al Green wife Shirley Kyles?
Green married Shirley Kyles in June 1977, while still pastor of the Full Gospel Tabernacle Church. The pair was smitten, and their merger appeared to be a match made in heaven.
Kyles, however, filed for divorce in 1978, not long before their first wedding anniversary. Her motivation was surprising. She claimed she had suffered multiple horrific beatings at the hands of her adored husband.
The former couple formalized their divorce in 1983, after many years of back and forth. Kyles gained the fortitude to come out and break her silence years after their divorce, inspired by Nicole Brown Simpson’s abuse narrative.
Kyles also stated that prayers and religion kept her going during the terrible days of her marriage. Alva, Rubi, and Kora, the couple’s three daughters, were too little to recall their father assaulting their mother.
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