Often, she says, she would “drink and try to forget” what she had been throughĪ habit of escaping reality through substances she first developed when she was 12, the year she signed her first record deal and started recording songs with 2000s boy band B2K. “The more I was around my siblings, the more his absence was evident.” “For a long time, I didn’t want to be around anyone,” she says. The youngest of five children born to parents Karamo, a pediatrician, and Christina, a homemaker, in Los Angeles, Aiko (whose full name is Jhené Aiko Efuru Chilombo) says she dealt with her grief by avoiding her other siblings - her brother Jahi and sisters Jamila and Miyoko. But on the other, my brother, who I was the closest person to, wasn’t there to experience it with me. “On one hand, I got to do so many things. R&B star Jhené Aiko opens up about life after loss in this week’s issue of PEOPLEĬollaboration “Beware.” But during that time, her joy was overshadowed by the loss of her older brother Miyagi, who was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor in 2010 and died in 2012 at the age of 26.
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