Augie, 65, was one of the backing singers on Michael Jackon's 1979 breakthrough album, Off The Wall, and went on form the band, Side Effect.
And speaking to MailOnline today, Augie - who was in a long-term relationship with Brandon's mom, singer Miki Howard - said he very much considers Brandon, now 31, to be his natural son.
Augie had two sons with Miki, Brandon and Nicholas, and breaking his silence on the rumours that Brandon could be the late superstar's son, he said: 'I KNOW Brandon's my son - I was there in the delivery room, I have the pictures of him being born. I got the records, I got everything.
'Before me, Miki wasn't with anyone else - she didn't even know Michael at that time. But you know what -
I love my son and he can do whatever he likes. I'm not tripping on this - I want Brandon to have a successful career.'
This afternoon, DNA evidence that was claimed to have been collected from the late superstar's dental impression bought by Beverly Hills dentist Dr Joseph Goodman, was said to prove that Brandon is the singer's secret son.
Although the impression is 30 years old and taken at the time Michael filmed the movie Moonwalker,
it is said to still contain plenty of DNA.
Dr Goodman read out the results at a press conference streamed live by Alki David and his company, FilmOn.com.
However, actor Corey Feldman - a friend of both Michael Jackson and up and coming singer Brandon - who goes by the stage name B Howard - immediately questioned the veracity of the results, saying: I'm being the Devil’s Advocate, people are going to dry and demand for more specific proof of this.'
David would not name the laboratories where the results were obtained, but said the DNA was matched at two labs, one in Utah and another in Ireland. Bizarrely, there is no known birth certificate for Brandon.
Brandon gave his own DNA in a mouth swab, but Corey claimed he was not doing this for publicity - rather to find out the truth, saying: 'B Howard never claimed to be Michael's son, but it haunted him his whole life,
'We've really become very close over the last year or two and the thing that struck me no matter what was that he has the spirit of Michael Jackson, he sounds like him, moves like him, he has all the God's given talent like him.
'He's written and produced for T3, Tito Jackson's son's band, he's been involved with multiple Jackson works over the past few years.
'It's not been denied that he's part of the family, we just don't know what part of the family.'
Asked if he thinks Brandon IS Michael's son, Corey admitted: 'Personally, I do think he is. It felt like Michael was walking into my house again. I've never met two people alike. That said - I'm not a doctor.'
Speaking from his home in California, Augie admitted that Brandon DID meet Michael, who died aged 50 in June 2009, when he was a little boy and had made frequent trips to the star's ranch, Neverland, with his mother or Michael's brother Jermaine, and made friends with the Jackson family children.
However, he said: 'We had a relationship with the Jacksons, an entertainment relationship.
'The first time Brandon will have met the Jacksons is when he was three and Nicholas was one and we went up to Jermaine's office.
'He met Michael a couple of times at his ranch. Miki took them there and sometimes Jermaine took them. Miki had a record and she got more successful and Brandon started hanging out with the Jackson kids.
'Brandon spent a lot of time with Jackson kids over there, this was during the time when Miki and I broke up and she was hating me for a few years because we didn't get married.'
Brandon - once praised as the 'reincarnation of Michael Jackson' - is said to have 'groundbreaking' DNA evidence proving he is the King of Pop's offspring, TMZ reported.
However, Augie said: 'Brandon just happens to be one of those kids - the wannabe Michael kids - his whole life. He loved Michael Jackson so much.
'He wanted to look more like him and he had a little success in Japan, that’s where this whole thing started. It became this mystery that he would never answer.
'It's been a plan for a long time, he wants to help his career, that's what I believe.
'Any kind of controversy that gets out there in the world, right now, helps.'
Miki Howard joined Side Effect as a 16-year-old singer, and asked about any romance with Michael, Augie said: 'She was never romantically involved with Michael. He didn't even know her.'
Now friendly again with Miki, Augie said he spoke to her today, adding: 'Miki thinks Brandon is losing his mind!'
'Everybody has their own thing - I don't let that worry me. Brandon's mine and Miki's son, so I don't worry too much. He knows I'm his dad.
'First of all - Brandon don't look nothing like Michael, Michael had all that surgery to make him look that way, anyone can look like that if you have your face lifted - don't get it twisted.'
The last time Augie spoke to Brandon was yesterday and he said: 'He keeps saying it’s not him…he sounded distraught and said 'I don't know why people are saying this! These people want me to be Michael!'
'But my son's a good actor....I say 'Brandon do what you gotta do'. Today's world is so crazy I'm just glad he's not in a sex video!'
Augie - who appeared in the Adam Sandler movie 'I now pronounce you Chuck and Larry' and started his career by singing back-up on Frank Sinatra's hit 'High Hopes' - added: 'Brandon told me 'Let me handle it'…he always lets me know anything that might bother me.
'But I've been in the business so long, nothing bothers me anymore as long as my life and my health is good, everybody got their own life.'
Asked about Brandon, Howard Weitzman, Jackson's estate lawyer, told TMZ: 'We've never even heard from him," when asked about Howard's claim.
He added that 'any deadline for claiming to be Michael's child has long since passed'.
The results of the DNA test are due to be revealed today live on FilmOn.com at 12pm Pacific time, 8pm (GMT).
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