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Janet Jackson Biography :
Janet Jackson Born in famous musical Jackson family and sis of Jackson Brothers' ( popularly known as Jackson 5 ) Janet Jackson had made her own identity in the world of pop. Janet Family Background Janet born in Jackson family to Joseph and Katherine Jackson. Janet was the youngest child of family. Her elder borthers ( Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael ) had already performing together as the Jackson 5 (J5) band including the king of pop Michael Jackson.
Her father nicknamed "Papa Joe" or known as simply Joe, Joseph worked hard labor as a crane operator in Gary's steel mills. Before Janet was born, Joe had his own music career forming the R&B band, the Falcons. They never got as far as the biggest nightclub in Gary. Her mother Katherine seemed angelic. For a time before Janet was born, Katherine also held down a job working as a store clerk for Sears. She quit the job as soon as she became a devout Jehovah's Witness ( Christian group originating in the United States at the end of the 19th cent., organized by Charles Taze Russell ) in 1965. She was considered the one who "kept the glue within the family" during the First Performance At the age of 7, she first appeared on stage in her brothers' show in 1973. In 1977, Norman Lear offered her a job on the CBS hit as Penny Gordon Woods on "Good Times." After that, she appeared on a few shows, "Diffrent Strokes" and "A New Kind of Family" among them. When Janet was 7, she had aspired to be a horse jockey. However, her father thought otherwise, as he saw her potential early on, her father forced her to follow in her brothers' footsteps by singing professionally.
Debut Album and Big Hit ( Control ) After singing to A&M Records, she realeased her debut album Janet Jackson in 1982. In 1983, she got a role in TV show Fame. Followed up with Dreamstreet in 1984. It was not well-received. In 1986, Janet released Control with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis which was wildly successful, which topped the pop and R&B album charts. It took the hard beat background and laid a funk-riff melody over it. The album was aggressive, in tone and melody. The album was all about Janet- and who she wanted to
be. Janet spent most of 1986 and 1987 supporting the album and remixing the songs into dance versions. Control introduced the hit What Have You Done For Me Lately? In 1989, Janet released her next album, Rhythm Nation 1814. In 1991 Virgin Records’ lured Janet away from A&M with a contract worth more than $30 million. Her final A&M project was a 1992 duet with Luther Vandross, "The Best Things in Life Are Free", recorded for the soundtrack to the film Mo Money.
In 1997 she had completed work on an album The Velvet Rope was released. The first single was Got 'Til It's Gone. Not many singles were released - only the AIDS-dedicated, dance anthem Together Again (#1 Pop, #8 R&B) and I Get Lonely (#3 Pop, #1 R&B). Seven years after her last film, 34-year-old Jackson returned to the box office with the release of the Eddie Murphy vehicle, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps in 2000. The single, Doesn't Really Matter became her first #1 of the new millennium making her the first artist to have a number one single in the '80s, '90s and 2000's Divorce While the Nutty Professor II: The Klumps was out, news had spread that the singer and her husband Rene Elizondo had split up after nine years. Elizondo revealed the secret a year after Jackson filed for legal separation. Their divorce wouldn't be finalized until the end of 2003. 2000's In 2001, All For You, was released. The album sold over 600,000 copies her first week, the title track became Janet's second biggest hit to date, reaching #1 for 7 weeks. Janet's eighth studio release, Damita Jo, was released in March 2004. Its first single, Just A Little While, was marketed in early spring 2004. 'Just A Little While' was followed by the more urban single, 'I Want You', though with similar lukewarm success. The third, 'All Nite (Don't Stop)', failed to appear on the charts. To fight back against her critics in 2004 Jackson also began doing television talk show promotions, a first for her. She hosted Saturday Night Live. Another album is planned, possibly for 2005, with longtime boyfriend, Jermaine Dupri as an executive producer
With the release of her seventh album, Behind The Velvet Rope, Janet joined longtime collaborators Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis on a project that set out to tackle social issues like domestic violence and the AIDS crisis. | |
earlier years.
was released in 1993, the album was almost like a love letter to her new husband and long-time friend Rene Elizondo. The couple had married in secret to avoid press speculation, and Elizondo is said to have co-written many of the tracks on janet.
Janet and Brother Miclael Jackson She remains close with Michael still- as kids they'd play piano together. She still talks to him mornings, supported him in public during his roughest times. The key she wears on an earring is a gift from him- it was to the cage of a baby deer they took care of as kids. One day, he attached it to the earring- and she has left it there. The two siblings joined forces on Michael's video (currently the most expensive music video ever made) "Scream."