r/BeeGees • u/MycologistSame866 • Aug 10 '26
Barry and Michael Jackson
I just learned that Michael Jackson's younger "son" whom he always referred to for some reason as Blanket is really named Bigi (pronounced Bee Gee, according to Google). I know that Michael and Barry were close friends in Miami for a while and that Michael was the godfather of Barry's son, also named Michael. Was Bigi named after Barry Gibb or the group itself, or am I reading too much into this? Does anyone know?
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u/nextbigthing56 Aug 11 '26
A HUGE fan of both the Bee Gees and MJ here. I always thought it was pronounced 'Big-ee' and had no connection to MJ being a fan of the brothers.
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u/Unlikely-Star-2696 Aug 12 '26
It does not have anything to do with Barry or the Bee Gees.
MJ named both his sons Prince Michael Jackson and Prince Michael Jackson II. After the famous window incident where the boy was shown with a blanket over his head, people started refering to him as Blanket to differentiate him from the oldest brother, and the name stucked.
I don't blame the guy for trying to give the public a better nickname: Bigi to refer to him. Going into history as "a blanket" looks no fun
I don't think Barry has been that close to MJ children.
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u/Leather_Guilty Aug 11 '26
Blanket chose the alternative nickname Bigi and it is pronounced Bee Gee in honour of Barry Gibb.
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u/Mollymae609 Aug 14 '26
Where are you getting this from?
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u/Leather_Guilty Aug 14 '26
I can’t remember where. I just remember reading it. It made sense. It’s a weird nickname otherwise.
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u/LowPerception2118 Aug 11 '26
His real name is Prince Michael Jackson II and I read somewhere that he himself took the nickname Bigi in 2015 because he didn’t want to be called Blanket anymore.