Janet Damita Jo Jackson is the youngest member of the Jackson family. She is 52 years old. She was born on 16 May 1966 in Gary Indiana . Her star sign is Taurus.She attended Lanai Road Elementary School and Portola Middle School in California. Her brothers were members of the group the Jackson 5 and she moved to California in 1971 with her mother and sisters when the Jackson 5 signed to Mowtown in 1968. They called their family house Hayvenhurst.
Their parents , Joe and Katherine Jackson, were also aspiring musicians who worked as a US crane operator and part time at Sears respectively to make ends meet. They lived in a two bedroom house in Gary Indiana.
She is Michael Jackson’s youngest sister.
She is a singer and an actress. Her vocal range is second soprano. When she was a child , she wanted to be a jokey or work at a McDonald's . She started her career as an actress at tv sitcoms. She appeared on Good times in 1974. Her father was the one who told her to pursue a career as a performer. She wanted to be an entertainment lawyer. She was briefly in a girl band with her sisters Rebbie and La toya but they had no success and they soon disbanded. She is the only member of the Jackson family who has had a successful solo career besides Michael Jackson , aka the King of Pop. They only collaborated once on the song ‘’Scream’’ for her late brother’s album HIStory, for which they won several awards. Janet said about Michael: ‘’ He kicks ass’’. According to critics, Janet was nowhere near Michael vocally but it was her performance that was praised in the video. They never performed live together. After Michael Jackson died Janet performed it on stage as a tribute to her brother at MTV VMA 2009, who she said, will always live in her heart. She has implied her brother was murdered.
She started her career in sitcoms such as ‘’Good times’’,’’ Different Strokes’’ and ‘’Fame’’. Her debut film was ‘’Poetic Justice’’ in 1993, where she portrayed a girl named Justice, who writes poems in her attempt to deal with her mother’s suicide and her boyfriend’s murder. The film is considered iconic. Her performance was praised and the film opened at number one at the box office. She was offered leading roles in blockbusters and high profile films throughout the 90’s such as ‘’Jerry Maguire’’, Matrix’’ ,’’ Scream 3′’, and ‘’X men’’ and though she was originally cast she was not able to appear in the films after all due to schedule conflicts as at the same time she had to go on tour. She starred in the ‘’the Nutty Professor 2:the Klumps’’ , for which she was paid 3 million dollars and an extra million dollars for the song of the soundtack, ‘’Why did i get married?’’ , ‘’ Why did i get married? 2′’ and ‘’For colored girls’’, all of which did very well at the box office and were well received by the critics.
She has been nominated for 26 Grammys, of which she won 5, and she has won 33 Billboard Awards. She is ranked as the third most awarded artist in history with 435 nominations. She has won over 200 awards.
In 2018 she received the icon award at Billboard music Awards, where she made her first televised appearance in 8 years.
Her first albums were titled “Janet Jackson” and “Dream Street”. They were both flops. They sold 250.000 and 200.000 copies respectively. She didn’t manage to go higher than #63 Billboard. However , she did not give up.
She achieved critical acclaim and commercial success with her albums ‘’Control’’ (1986) and ‘’Rhythm Nation’’ (1989) . ‘’Control’’ topped the Billboard 200. ‘’Rhythm Nation 1814′’ sold 10 million albums worldwide and had top 5 hits , 4 of which were #1s. She won 9 Billboard Awards in 1990 for ‘’Rhythm Nation 1814’’. Michael Jackson used to call Janet Mrs Rhythm Nation and his favourite song was ‘’The knowledge’’ from her album ‘’Rhythm Nation 1814’’.
Her most successful commercially album is Janet ( 1993). It sold over 15 million copies.
Her Velvet Rope ( 1997) however is considered one of the best albums in music history.
Her album All for you (2001) sold 16 million copies and her single ‘’all for you’’ topped the USA charts for 10 weeks. She has sold over 150 million albums world wide.,
In 2008, she signed a record deal with Island Records and released her tenth studio album "Discipline" .
She had endorsements with PepsiCo, American Airlines and Revlon. She appeared in a commercial for Pepsi in Japan with Ricky Martin. She has a networth of 175–200 million dollars.
She owns two houses, one in Los Angeles and another in New York. She has a collection of many luxurious cars, such as Lamborghini Gallardo Spyder, Lamborghini Murcielago, Aston Martin, Bentley Continental.
She received heavy criticism for a wardrobe malfunction at the 2003 Super Bowl, when her co performer Justin Timberlake exposed her breast. She claimed that it was not intentional so as to leave the breast uncovered but she admitted they changed their dance routine the last minute so as to reveal only her red lace bra, but, revealed her breast instead. She said it was an accident. Due to the unfortunate incident she lost the role of Lena Horne’s in a biopic, which she had been originally offered, and her career was in decline for many years.
In 2015 however her album Unbreakable was the best selling album in the USA. The accompanying Unbreakable World tour was the tenth most popular that year. The same year she started her own record label, Rhythm Nation. In 2016 she was dubbed the second most successful artist at the USA Dance Chart. She has released 16 albums and has gone on 8 tours.
Janet Jackson has been married three times. She is currently divorced.Her first husband was James Debarge, with whom she eloped but the marriage was annulled within a few months.
He claims they have a 31 year old daughter but DNA tests have debunked these claims. She secretly married her second husband Rene Elizondo jr in 1991.
He was a dancer for a music video of her sister Latoya. They divorced in 1999. He filed for a divorce. No one knew they were even married until they divorced. She was in a 7 year relationship with Jermaine Dupri ( 2002–2009)
. She married Quatari millionaire, who is rumoured to be a billionaire, Wissam Al Mana with whom she had a son at the age of 50, Eissa. Just 3 months after the birth of their son Eissa, Janet filed for a divorce, allegedly due to verbal abuse.
They keep a joint custody of their son.
She has 4 dogs, including a Rottweiler and a small Schnauzer. Janet Jackson’s sexual orientation is straight though she has been rumored to have been bisexual.
Michael Jackson nicknamed Janet Dunk because of her curvy figure, which reminded him of a donkey. Janet Jackson has said about herself that she is an emotional eater. She comfort eats when she is sad or stressed, thus she tends to put on weight.
Michael Jackson called Janet a fat cow in his attempt to motivate her to lose weight. In 2011 Janet released a book which among other things is also about her weight loss struggle. Janet said that she always felt insecure about her looks and wanted to look like her sister Rebbie, whom she considered prettier than her.
When Michael and Janet were still very young they used to close their eyes and imagine their father dead in a coffin. Then, they would ask each other whether they felt sad. They both answered no.
She said in an interview once that her father Joe Jackson whipped her when she was 6 years old for no reason at all and did not allow her to call him dad. Michael Jackson also accused his father of physical abuse.
She fired her dad from the position of her manager before the release of her 3rd extremely successful album Control in 1986 and hired John McClain, who is now co executor of her brother’s Michael Jackson’s Estate, based on a will, whose validity the Jackson family has questioned. She says what she misses most about her borther Michael , who died in 2009, is his silliness.
She bashed her sister La toya when the latter released a book in the early 90’s ,in which she alleged she was abused and molested by their father Joe, which she later denied herself.
Janet claimed that La toya did that to get the attention she never managed to achieve herself as an artist but it turned out that La toya was brainwashed by her gangster husband Jack Gordon, who in addition beat her. It was Jack Gordon who coerced Latoya to accuse Michael Jackson of molestation and threatened to kill her , Michael and Janet if she didn’t. Eventually, Latoya escaped from Gordon with the help of Rebbie and Randy.
Her favourite singers are Marvin Gaye and Ella Fitzerald. In 1991, she got her own star on the Hollywood walk of Fame. It is absolutely fair to say that Janet Jackson is rich, famous and successful in her own right.
She has got 5 tatoos, including one with Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse.
She has a half sister Joh Vonnie, her father’s illegitimate child.
Beyonce pays tribute to Janet Jackson and Michael Jackson at Halloween.
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