The Founders' Story

Pictured are: Stacie "Trevel"  Maxwell,  Rosaland "Ntrigue" Chambers, Telisha "Ynvlisa" Johnson, Anne "Geraldsgirl"  Carter,  Chriscynthia "Flutist74" Lacey,  and Robin "Robjaye" Jones.

Six ladies who lived on opposite sides of the country met on the Internet.   It was the Spring of 2000,  when these ladies began visiting various Gerald Levert message boards.

Soon their mutal love for Gerald blossomed into a friendship consisting of daily off line emails and frequent telephone conversations.

It wasn't long before they decided to display their collective love for Gerald Levert in a way no one had heard. Thus, on July 13, 2000 (Gerald Levert's 34th birthday) Girls' Primary Honey Is Gerald" aka G. PHI G. was born - a non Greek sorority deemed merely as an effort to honor Gerald Levert.  Their mission was to provide a forum for Levert's admirers to connect and share the love. As the months progressed a slow by steady group of other admirers joined the fold. 

In November of 2000, news of G. PHI G., appeared in North Carolina's Fayetteville Observer after  Anne Carter, President of the sorority was intereviewed for the paper.  This publicity coverage, although local, was a huge milestone for the sorority. Two months later news of G. PHI G. appeared in the January 2001 issue of the national Sister2Sister Magazine Editor Jamie Foster Brown directed readers to the G. PHI G website and membership flourished.

On January 13, 2001, the ladies finally met for the first time at the Silver Star Resort and Casino in Philadelphia Mississippi. Their meeting was exactly six months after the sorority's inception. Although the ladies were there to attend Gerald's sold out concert, they were also there to present Gerald Levert with the most deserving award "Entertainer of the Decade" along with several sorority signature gifts.  Gerald was elated to say the least.

By the end of January, G. PHI G. was mentioned in the Elektra Records' newsletter, Patty Jackson's 411 column, and Jawn's Juice.  Soon more subscribers joined the msn site.  In the Spring of 2001, the ladies began assisting  Elektra Records with the promotion of Gerald's music.  In September of 2001, G. PHI G. received the unique honor of being included in the linear notes of Gerald's solo effort "Gerald's World."

In February of 2002,  the group returned to Philadelphia, MS, to visit with each other and to attend Gerald's sold out performance at the Silver Star Resort and Casino. Four months later,  on the morning of Saturday June 29, Chief Founder Telisha Johnson was killed in an automobile accident, just days away from a reunion trip with Gerald and the other founders. It is truly the memory of Telisha and her love for G. PHI G. that sustained the surviving members as they continued to deal with her loss.

Four years later on November 10, 2006, Gerald Levert passed away suddenly to shock of all those who knew and loved him.  In light of Gerald's passing the founders and membership of G.PHI G. have an even greater  committment to keep the memory and legacy of the this phenomenal talent alive.