Complex sentence: Born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass on March 26,1950 (allmusic Biography) in Kingstree, S.C., and moved to Philadelphia as an infant with his mother, he was the only child of Jesse and Ida Geraldine (née Epps) Pendergrass.
Split into simpler sentences: Born Theodore DeReese Pendergrass on March 26,1950 in Kingstree, South Carolina, and moved to Philadelphia as an infant with his mother. He was the only child of Jesse and Ida Geraldine (née Epps) Pendergrass.