Are Syleena Johnson And Chad Johnson Siblings?

May 2024 · 5 minute read

Syleena Johnson siblings are Syleecia and Sylette. Chad Johnson is also stated to be one by BET, Google and many prominent sites but the debate is still going on.

Syleena is best known for being an American singer-songwriter based in Chicago, Illinois. The 46-year-old singer has also worked as an actor and television presenter.

Gaining fame in the early 2000s for being featured on Kanye West’s hit single, All Falls Down, Syleena has released over nine albums from 1998 to now, with her most recent coming out in 2020.

Chad, on the other hand, is a former American Football player known for playing in the wide receiver position.

Throughout his career, which lasted from 2001 to 2017, he played for Cincinnati Bengals from 2001 to 2010, New England Patriots in 2011, Miami Dolphins in 2012, Montreal Alouettes from 2014 to 2015, and Fundidores de Monterrey in 2017.

Syleena Johnson And Chad Johnson Siblings

Whether Sylenna Johnson and Chad Johnson are siblings is something that the media and fans have been debating for a while. 

The confusion about Chad and Syleena’s relationship comes from the fact that their last name is Johnson. However, that is only the beginning of the pyramid.

To start, when one searches for both Chad and Syleena’s siblings on Google, the search engine lists their names. Other prominent websites like BET have also listed that the two celebrities are siblings.

The reason why is that while Chad’s mother’s identity is known, the same cannot be said for his father. Google states that his father is Sam Brown, but many other websites state it is Syleena’s father, Syl

One of the few pieces of evidence the two have ever confirmed that they are siblings is in a tweet that Chad posted on Twitter where he jokingly replied to one of his followers that yes, he is Syleena’s brother. Due to the tweet’s joking nature, many fans took this to mean that Chad was joking.

The main piece of evidence seems to be an interview that Syleena did with radio station Power 99 where she confirmed that she and Chad were related. Sadly, this interview’s video has been scrapped from the internet, with the only mentions of it on gossip websites like Lipstick Alley.

The evidence against them being related is plenty as well. In an interview with Graham Bensinger on YouTube, Chad mentioned that his father had been in jail for over 20 years, which does not correlate with Syl’s life story. 

In the same interview, Chad goes onto say his father passed from pancreatic cancer in 2012, while Syl only recently passed away on February 6, 2022, of congestive heart failure.

Lastly, the New York Times obituary on Syl Johnson named all of his children. Chad was not on that list. 

Their Family Background

Sylenna’s family background is clear. She was born on September 2, 1976, in Harvey, Illinois to Syl Johnson and Brenda Thompson.

Syl was a prominent singer and recording artist and Brenda was the first female African American police commissioner in the history of Harvey, Illinois. She was raised alongside two sisters, Syleecia and Sylette.

She would go on to enroll in the Zeta Phi Beta sorority at Illinois State University where she would meet her first husband, Marcus Betts, a college basketball player for the same university. The two married and he would be the manager for her first two albums.

However, the two would eventually divorce, and since 2007, Syleena has been married to Kiwane Garris, a basketball player, with whom she has two children.

On the other hand, Chad’s family background is a bit more confusing. He was born two years after Syleena on January 9, 1978, in Miami, Florida.

He was born to Paula Johnson, but she couldn’t raise him due to her problems with substances making her cast doubts on her ability to raise the boy properly herself. So, she left him with her mother, Chad’s grandmother when he was only five years old.

Chad’s grandmother, Bessie May Flowers, raised the former football player throughout the formative years of his life, and he has stated numerous times that he owes his life and his success to her guidance and love. Sadly, she started suffering from dementia in 2016 onwards and passed away in 2018. 

Syleena Johnson Has Two Sisters

Syleena has two confirmed sisters who share the same parentage as hers. Their names are Syleecia Thompson and Sylette DeBois.

Syleecia Thompson

Syleena’s sister Syleecia goes by Syleecia Thompson. She has served in many roles including managing her sister.

Her many roles also include author, professor, entrepreneur, brand strategist, and executive producer. She is also a breast cancer survivor and mother.

A learned woman, she has earned a bachelor of science in Economics, an MBA, and a Doctorate in Business Administration.

Sylvette DeBois

Syleena’s sister Sylette goes by Sylette DeBois. She is best known for working in medicine.

As entrepreneurial as her other sister, Sylette is the founder of Dr. Sylette Healthcare Consulting. She also serves as an educator and consultant specializing in providing empowerment to the nursing community.

Equally as learned as her sisters, she is a DNP (Doctor of Nursing Practice), an MSN-Ed (Master of Science in Nursing with an Emphasis in Nursing Education), an RN (Registered Nurse), and an HTC, meaning she has knowledge in hemophilia.

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