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 Janet Damita Jo Jackson sees the daylight on May 16, 1966. �She is the
youngest of 9 children. In 1973, when only 7 year-old, she appears in a
show of her
famous brothers. Four years later, Norman Lear offers her a job in Good
Times on CBS. Following are appearances in TV shows such as: Diff'rent
Strokes A New
Kind of Family.
In 1982, when being just 16, Janet launches her debut album. At that
time she experiments a lot, searching for the best style and matching
public. Janet
embarks on a tour, at which she meets the members of the band The Time -
Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Two performers, who play a guiding role in
her career.
In 1983 Janet takes part in Fame. The following year brings the young
talented lady her teenager's love James DeBarge. In the autumn of the
following year she rejects her
marriage with him and gets back to her parents. The same year Janet
turns into reality her second album: Dreamstreet, which is not quite
welcome by her
fans and does not enjoy critical acclaim.
The album that helps Janet rise as a star is Control, released in 1986.
This is her first but not last album with Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis.
This hit album
generates 6 winning singles, climbing high in various charts. This
evolution drives Janet into expressing herself better in music,
accomplishing an incomparable rhythm and
memorable style. She spends the following 5 years making dance remixes
of her songs.
In 1989 Janet makes available her following album: Rhythm Nation 1814.
In 1993 she starts appearing in the production of John Singleton: Poetic
Justice.
Two years later she joins her brother Michael in the hit single
"Scream". In 1996 Janet gives life to her project: Janet Jackson
1986/1996 Design of a
Decade. The album contains the best of her music for the last 10 years.
In 2000, she partners Eddie Murphy in Nutty Professor II: The Klumps.
Janet creates the popular single "Doesn't Really Matter" |
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A fan filed a sue against Janet Jackson for $120 million, after being
beaten by the singer's bodyguards. Rumours are spreading around that New
Yorker Leonard Salati was welcome by the singer, but after daring to
hand her a personal note, the bodyguards assaulted him in an aggressive
mode...Washington DC (Conservative Times) Feb. 16, 2005.
