Who Are Jerry Blavat Parents?
Rachel Hickman
Updated on February 27, 2026
Jerry Blavat is an American disc jockey, who performed at record hops and festivals as well as to broadcast on local radio seven days a week, in the wider Philadelphia region.
He organized annual oldies performances at Philadelphia’s Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which was since January 2002. For more than 20 years, he contributed regularly to the Atlantic City Weekly, where he penned his “Geator Gab” piece that was only published in the New Jersey Free Press.
Since 2011, he has served as the host of Time Life’s annual Malt Shop Memories Cruise. He was a member of the New York Friars’ Club since 2010. His nightclub, Memories, has been open in Margate, New Jersey, since 1972, and he continued to DJ there throughout the summer.
Who Are Jerry Blavat Parents?
Jerry Blavat never revealed much about his parents identity, except when he stated in an interview, in his words, “My father was a Jewish racketeer. And my mother was a Capuano, he says, referring to his mother’s maiden name. My existence as a kid was being shifted around, and I grew up in an Italian Catholic neighborhood of New York City.”