question: Katherine Jackson is the matriarch of what American family of signers who originated in Gary, Indiana?
answer: Jackson family
context: Title: Debra Opri
  Passage: Debra Opri is a lawyer who gained a reputation as a celebrity attorney when she successfully represented James Brown against a sexual harassment lawsuit by a former employee.  Other high-profile clients have included Michael Jackson's parents, Joseph Jackson and Katherine Jackson, who hired Opri to protect their interests after their son was charged with child molestation; as well as Pamela Hasselhoff and Jermaine Jackson in their divorces.
  Title: List of songs recorded by The Jackson 5
  Passage: The Jackson 5 was an American music group, formed in 1963 by the Jackson family brothers Jackie, Jermaine, Marlon, Michael and Tito.  The quintet's first singles were recorded at Steeltown Records, a local label in their hometown of Gary, Indiana.  Songs recorded at Steeltown included "You've Changed", "We Don't Have To Be Over 21 (to Fall in Love)" and "Big Boy".  According to music journalist Nelson George, Michael Jackson and The Jackson 5's "real" recording history did not begin until their move to Motown Records in 1968.  The then Detroit-based company, led by Berry Gordy, housed established recording artists such as Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye and Diana Ross, as well as a producing-writing team known as "The Corporation".  Jackson 5 hit singles such as "I Want You Back", "ABC" and "The Love You Save" were written by the Motown team, and aided the five brothers in becoming the first black teen idols.
  Title: The Jackson 5 discography
  Passage: This article presents the discography of The Jackson 5 (later known as The Jacksons), an American family band from Gary, Indiana.  Founding group members Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael formed the group after performing in an early incarnation called The Jackson Brothers, which originally consisted of a trio of the three older brothers.  Youngest brother Randy Jackson joined the group after Jermaine stayed with Motown Records and the brothers went to Epic/CBS Records.  Overall, 23 of their singles rose within the "Billboard" Top 40, with the first four of them reaching #1.
  Title: Katherine Jackson
  Passage: Katherine Esther Jackson (born Kattie B. Screws; May 4, 1930) is the matriarch of the Jackson family.
  Title: Angela Bassett
  Passage: Angela Evelyn Bassett (born August 16, 1958) is an American actress and activist.  She is best known for her biographical film roles, most notably her performance as Tina Turner in the biopic "What's Love Got to Do with It" (1993), for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress and won a corresponding Golden Globe Award.  Bassett has additionally portrayed Betty Shabazz in both "Malcolm X" (1992) and "Panther" (1995), Katherine Jackson in "" (1992), Rosa Parks in "The Rosa Parks Story" (2002), Voletta Wallace in "Notorious" (2009) and Coretta Scott King in "Betty & Coretta" (2013).  Bassett's performance as Parks was honored with her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination.
  Title: Paris Jackson (actress)
  Passage: Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson (born April 3, 1998) is an American actress, activist, and model.  She is the second child and only daughter of Michael Jackson and Debbie Rowe.
  Title: Patricia Idlette
  Passage: Patricia Idlette is an actress known for her role as Kiffany in Showtime's "Dead Like Me".  She also appeared in four episodes of "Battlestar Galactica" as politician Sarah Porter, and as Melanie Blackstone in the miniseries "Amerika".  Idlette portrayed Katherine Jackson, mother of Michael Jackson, in the 2004 biopic "".  She appeared as Brenda's mother in "Scary Movie 3" in 2003.
  Title: U.S. Steel Yard
  Passage: U.S. Steel Yard is an open-air baseball stadium located in Gary, Indiana next to I-90 in the city's Emerson neighborhood.  It is home to the Gary SouthShore RailCats, a professional baseball team and member of the American Association.  It seats 6,139 people.  It also hosts many Little League Baseball games as well as high school baseball games.  The ballpark is notable for holding a memorial service for the late pop musician and Gary native Michael Jackson on July 10, 2009 that was attended by over 6,000 fans, with much of Jackson's family in attendance.  The ballpark has had over 2 million fans in attendance during the RailCats team history.
  Title: Jackson family
  Passage: The Jackson family is an American family of singers who originated in Gary, Indiana.  Performing as members of The Jackson 5 and as solo artists, the children of Joseph Walter and Katherine Esther Jackson were very successful in the field of popular music from the late 1960s onwards.  As a group, the eldest sons Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, Randy and Michael, made the family's reputation, facilitating the subsequent success of siblings Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet.  The Jackson 5 became known as the "First Family of Soul" (a title first held by the Five Stairsteps).  The continued success of Michael and Janet's careers as solo artists led the Jacksons to become known as the "Royal Family of Pop".  All nine of the Jackson siblings have gold records to their credits with La Toya holding the distinction of being the first Jackson sister to attain one (awarded by France's SNEP for "Reggae Night", a song she co-wrote for Jimmy Cliff).
  Title: Kristian Valen
  Passage: Kristian Valen (born 13 October 1974) is a comedian, actor, singer and songwriter originally from Stavanger, Norway.  Known for comedic impressions, Valen has also pursued a serious music career; his pop music album "Listen When Alone" was released internationally in Europe and Asia.  Valen was asked by Katherine Jackson to perform his song "Still Here" at the Jackson Family Foundation’s Forever Michael: A Celebration of an Icon, the one year Michael Jackson memorial show held in 2010 at Beverly Hilton Hotel the home of the Golden Globes in Los Angeles.
citations: Jackson family Katherine Jackson