Janet Jackson (Janet Jackson), born May 16, 1966 in Indiana, is an American pop singer and actress.
She was born in the musical family Jackson family, with spiritual songs, strong dance capital, is recognized as the European and American music world's most dancing female artists, become the 1980s to 1990s in the middle of the last century, one of the highest commercial and artistic achievements of the pop female singers, is the super diva of Western pop music.
Works include Control, RhythmNation1814 and AllForYou.
She is a five-time Grammy winner. In the 1990s, she was known as one of the "Four Divas" along with Madonna, Whitney Houston and Mariah Carey.
Chinese Name: Janet Jackson
Foreign Name: Janet Jackson
Alias: JanetDamitaJoJackson
Nationality: United States
Constellation: Taurus
Place of Birth: United States
Birth Date: May 16, 1966
Occupation: Singer
Representative Works: Control (1986) RhythmNation1814 (1989) AllForYou (2001)
Major Achievements: One of the Four Greatest Divas of the United States
Five Grammys
Has the most Billboard awards (33)
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Second most successful female artist of the 1990s
10 number-one singles
Top 10 best-selling female artists of our time
5 best-selling BMG albums of all time
7th best-selling artist of 50 years overall, 3rd best-selling female artist
One album that yielded more than 7 top 10 singles
Only album to have charted on the billboard 7 charts have all gone to #1
2 albums are the 500 greatest albums of all time
Early Years
Jenny was born in Gray, Indiana, U.S.A. On June 16, 1966, Jenny Jackson was born into a black family in Gray, Indiana, where she was the youngest of the family's nine children. The tenth child of Katherine Jackson and Joseph Jackson (one son, Brandon Jackson, died young) As the youngest of the Jackson family, while she was still a toddler, her older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Michael formed the Jackson 5 to perform in nightclubs and theaters.
In March 1969, the Jackson Five signed a deal with Motown Records. The Jackson family's life improved with the success of the group's four No. 1 singles
under Motown Records. Although born into a musical family, Jenny grew up wanting to be a racehorse jockey more than an entertainer. But her father still arranged for her to pursue a career in entertainment. Jenny once said, "No one ever asked me if I wanted to go into show business... It was all set up.
Entertainment
She made her debut in her brother and sister's cabaret show at the MGM Grand Casino in Las Vegas in 1976. She then made her official debut as an actress on "The Jacksons," a CBS reality series depicting her family.
In 1978, she released a record called LoveSongforKids with her brother Randy.
In 1982, her father arranged for her to sign with A&M Records. Her first solo album, Janet Jackson, was released the same year
In 1984, Janet's second album, DreamStreet, was released two years later. At the end of the year, Janet eloped with R&B singer James DeBarge. But the marriage ended in 1985.
In 1985, Jenny participated in the Yamaha World Song Festival with her sister LaToya and won the Silver Award as well as the Best Song Award.
February 1986 saw the release of her third studio album Control, which was certified five platinum by the RIAA in the U.S. and set a record for sales of more than 14 million copies worldwide.
In September 1989, Janet released her own fourth studio album, Janet Jackson'sRhythmNation1814 . The album became the only album in music history to have three consecutive No. 1 singles on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart and the only album in history to have seven singles reach the top five on the singles chart.
In 1990, Billboard magazine also declared "RhythmNation 1814" to be the highest-selling album of all time. Jenny's first world tour, called the RhythmNationWorldTour, which relied on the album, was also the best-selling first world tour by a recording artist. With the release of the album, Jenny Jackson's contract with A&M Records officially expired.
In 1991, a record deal was signed with Virgin Records. Although the exact amount of the contract was not released, industry insiders roughly expected it to be somewhere between $32 million and $50 million, making her the most valuable musician in music history at the time.
In early 1992, she collaborated with singer Luther Vandross on the song "The Best Things in Life Are Free" for the movie "Passing Fortune".
In May 1993, Jenny released her fifth studio album, "janet.", which was eventually certified 6 platinum by the RIAA, and also sold more than 20 million copies worldwide. in July, she starred in the movie, "Justins Writes Poetry", which was released in theaters. in September, Jenny was featured on the cover of Rolling Stone Magazine.
In November 1994, she performed the song "Scream" with Michael, and the music video for the single was recognized by the Guinness Book of Records as "the most expensive music video of all time", costing more than $7 million.
In October 1995, Jenny released her self-titled debut album, DesignofaDecade 1986/1996, which was released on the label's first album, DesignofaDecade.
In January 1996, Jenny renewed her contract with Virgin Records for a whopping $80 million. The deal made her once again the highest paid artist in music history.
October 1997 saw the release of her sixth studio album, TheVelvetRope, which was honored with the 19th Annual Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation Media Award for Best Music Album.
In 1998, Jenny embarked on her own world tour called TheVelvetRopeWorldTour.
In late 1999, Billboard magazine hailed her as the second most successful female artist of the 1990s, behind Mariah Carey.
In July 2000, Jenny starred in her second movie, "Professor Fatso 2: We Are the Family".
In 2001, she was honored with an American Music Award for Special Contribution and the first MTV Brilliant Superstar Award.
In April, Jenny's seventh album, AllforYou, went on the market and was released, selling 650,000 copies in its first week, a new career record.
In July, she embarked on the AllforYou Tour.
February 2004, she was honored with an award for her work at the During the halftime show of the Super Bowl XXXVIII football championship game, Jenny's right breast was exposed when Justin ripped off Jenny's right breast during a last-minute chorus with Justin. On April 10, Jenny hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live, and in May, Jenny's eighth studio album, Damita Jo, was released, and in November, she was named to the list of America's 100 Greatest Blacks for her artistic success.
In September 2006, Jenny officially released her ninth studio album, 20 Y.O., which peaked at number two on the Billboard Top 200 Albums chart. With the release of "20 Y.O.," it allowed Jenny to finalize her record deal with Virgin.
In January 2007, Jenny was named the seventh richest female artist in the world by Forbes magazine, estimating her assets to total more than $150 million.
In July, Jenny Jackson signed a record deal with Universal's IslandRecords Records.
October, her new film with TylerPerry, Why Did I Get Married? hits theaters.
In February 2008, she released her tenth studio album, Discipline, and in April, she received the GLAADMedia Awards Vanguard Award for her years of dedication to gay and lesbian rights. in September, she was released from her Island Records contract. On June 29, 2009, she attended the Black Entertainment Television Awards and gave a speech on stage, in which Jenny expressed her condolences for her brother on behalf of her family.On September 13, she attended the 26th Annual MTV Music Awards and performed "Scream," a song she collaborated with Michael on that year. After the MTV Video Music Awards, Jenny released her new single "MakeMe" on her official website.In November, she attended the National Music Awards and performed live.
In April 2010, Jenny starred in the movie "Why Did I Get Married Again?" which was released in theaters. In July, Jenny became the new spokesperson for Pocahontas, the fur brand of the Legendary Mink Farmers of America (LMFA), following in the footsteps of Lena Horne, Elizabeth Taylor, Lauren Bacall and Diana Ross.
In March 2011, Jenny signed a contract with Lionsgate as a film producer, and in the same year published a memoir, "TrueYou: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself," and in August announced a two-year extension of her contract with Pocamax. She then also became an endorsement for weight-loss product maker NutriSystem, with which she donated $10 million worth of food to people in need.
In 2015, Jenny signed an "artist services" deal with BMG Records, and on May 16, Jenny announced that she would be releasing a new album and touring within the year, releasing her debut single, "No Sleep," in June, and kicking off her world tour in Vancouver, Canada, in September. In September, the tour kicks off in Vancouver, Canada, four years after she last performed on stage. The tour will play 67 shows in North America and continue worldwide until March of the following year.On December 24, she announced that she would have to postpone her touring plans due to the need for vocal cord surgery.
On May 20, 2018, the IconAward, symbolizing the highest honor, was presented at the Billboard Music Awards ceremony.In June, the Influencer Award was presented at the 2018 Disney Music Awards held at the Denby Theatre in Hollywood.In December, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame officially announced that Janine Jackson was inducted into the 2019 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
From May 17 to August 17, 2019, Janine Jackson held a residency entitled "Metamorphosis" at the Parker Theatre in Las Vegas, ****18 performances.
Major works
Studio albums
01.JanetJackson(1982)U.S. sales: 300,000 copiesWorldwide: 500,000 copies
02.DreamStreet(1984)U.S. sales: 200,000 copiesWorldwide: 500,000 copies
03.Control( 1986)U.S. sales: 9 million copiesWorldwide: 14 million copies
04.Janet Jackson'sRhythmNation1814(1989)U.S. sales: 10 million copiesWorldwide: 16 million copies
05.janet.(1993)U.S. sales: 10 million copiesWorldwide: 20 million copies
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06.TheVelvetRope(1997)U.S. sales: 4 million copiesWorldwide: 10 million copies
07.AllForYou(2001)U.S. sales: 3.5 million copiesWorldwide: 9 million copies
08.DamitaJo(2004)U.S. sales: 1.2 million copiesWorldwide: 3 million copies
09.20Y.O. (2006) U.S. sales: 1 million copiesWorldwide: 1.4 million copies
10.Discipline (2008) U.S. sales: 0.5 million copiesWorldwide: 1 million copies
Selected Albums
DesignofADecade (1995)
THEBEST (2009)
Icon:NumberOnes (2010)
Remixed Albums
1987 Control:The RemixesNote: Released only in Europe Japan
1995 janet.RemixedNote: Released only in Europe
Video and audio DVDs
Concerts
TheVelvetRopeTour (2001)
LiveInHawaii (2002)
MV compilations
Control-TheVideos (1986)
Control-TheVideosPartII(1987)
JanetJackson'sRhythmNation1814(1989)
TheRhythmNationCompilation(1990)
janet. Videocompilationfrom1993-1994 (1994)
DesignofaDecade1986/1996 (1995)
AllforYou(DVDedition) (2001)
Fromjanet. toDamitaJo:TheVideos (2004)
Video and audio works
TV
The Jacksons (1976_1977)
GoodTimes (1977_1979)
ANewKindofFamily (1979 _1980)
Diff'rentStrokes(1980_1984)
Fame(1984_1985)
Movie
PoeticJustice(1993)
NuttyProfessorII:TheKlumps (2000)
WhyDidIGetMarried?(2007)
WhyDidIGetMarriedToo?(2010)
Forcoloredgirls(2011)
Tours through the years
RhythmNationWorldTour
Start date: March 1, 1990
End date: November 16, 1990
Shows: 107
Attendance: 2 million people
Grosses: 50 million dollars
JanetWorldTour
Start date: November 24, 1993
End date: April 22, 1995
Sessions: 110
Audience: 1.3 million people
Grosses: $60 million
TheVelvetRopeWorldTour
Start date: April 16, 1998
End date: January 30, 1999
Sessions: 120
Audience: 1.4 million
Gross: $80 million
AllforYouTour
Start date: July 7, 2001
End date: February 16, 2002
Sessions: 72
Audience: 890,000 people
Gross: $55 million
RockWitchuTour
Start date: September 10, 2008
End date: November 1, 2008
Shows: 16
Audience: 110,000
Gross: $11 million
NumberOnes:UpCloseandPersonal
Start date: February 4, 2011
End date: December 5, 2011
Number of shows: 80
Tour records
1. 1990 Rhythm Kingdom World Tour holds the record for the best performance by a first-time tour in Japan at Japan's Dome Arena, where Jenny set a record of selling out 190,000 tickets in seven minutes for four concerts. The concert attendance record at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii (3,000 seats were added to the 1999 Gorgeous Adventure concert in addition to the original seats, and the 2002 concert was attended by 45,000 people)
3. The 1998 HBO New York concert at Madison Square Garden attracted 15 million viewers on television. Television audienceWon 13 Emmy AwardsTelevision nominationsWon 4 awards
4.1998Gorgeous Adventures TourBlowout records in select U.S. cities
Life story
Jeanne married singer James DeBarge in late 1984 and divorced the following year.
In 1991, Jenny married dancer, composer, and director Rene Elizondo, and their marriage lasted until their divorce came to light in 2000.
On February 26, 2013, Jenny Jackson officially announced that she and boyfriend Wissam Al Mana had secretly consummated their marriage.
In October 2016, Janet Jackson announced that she was pregnant.
On Jan. 3, 2017, Janet Jackson, 50, gave birth to a son named Isa Al Mana.
In April 2017, Jenny Jackson and husband WissamAlMana decided to split.
On May 1, 2017, Janet Jackson released a special video sharing her life with fans and breaking her silence to talk about her divorce from husband WissamAlMana.
Award Record
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Award Record
Overall
Jenny Jackson is one of the most successful female pop artists of our time. She is recognized worldwide as a superstar of pop music for her creative visual outreach/thoughtful depth of fine music production.
★ Ranked in the top 10 best-selling female artists of our time (as of 2009, the RIAA Women's Overall Ranking of 10th pending additional record sales certification)
★ Ranked in the 2007 Forbes Magazine World's Richest Female Artist Top 20 Ranking of the seventh
★ In 2007 was selected as one of the "most searched for people on the Internet" in the Guinness Book of World Records. Most Searched People on the Internet" in the Guinness Book of World Records
★Billboard magazine ranked her as the ninth most successful rock artist of all time and the second most successful female artist of all time. According to Forbes magazine, she has personal assets of $150 million.
Music
★Nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Score at the Golden Globes for her song "Again."
★The only artist to have been nominated for a Grammy in the five categories of Pop, Rock, Dance, R& Band Rap
★The only artist to have been nominated for a Grammy in the five categories of Pop, Rock, Dance, R& Band Rap.
★First female artist of color to be nominated for "Producer of the Year" by the Grammys
★Most Billboard (33) and Soultrain (12) trophies
★First artist to be nominated for a Grammy Award in the Rhythm & Blues and Soul categories of the Pop, Rock, Dance, R&. Soul category
★Holds the record for the most wins at a single Billboard Awards show (#1 in 14 categories in 1990)
Songwriting category
★Wrote the book on the entire process of music production dance choreography concert design.
★ Received an honorary trophy as producer from the Academy of Recording Arts, the organizer of the 2002 Grammy Awards. Took the 1990 VMA Best Choreography for "Rhythm Kingdom". In 2011, Jenny will publish the book "Thetrueyou" as an author
Commercial
★"1990 Rhythm Kingdom World Tour" holds the record for the best first-time tour performance with a cumulative box office of $50 million
★Twice in 1992 and 1996, Jenny won the most expensive record deal in the world for a female artist. The world's most expensive record deal for a female artist in 1992 and 1996, with five studio albums signed for a cumulative total of $96 million
★Starring in films that have all topped the North American box office charts (as of 2008, three films have grossed a cumulative total of $200 million at the North American box office)
★First female artist to have a #1-selling album in a single year (Rhythm Kingdom 1814)
★In 2003, the "DesignofaDVD World Tour 1990" was the best-selling debut tour of its kind. "DesignofaDecade1986/1996", "RhythmNation1814", "Control", "janet." and "TheVelvetRope" were ranked as the 9th, 35th, 58th, 63rd and 95th best-selling 100 albums in BMG's sales channels
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" DesignofaDecade" and "RhythmNation1814" sold more than a million copies★The No.1 selling artist in BMG sales channel
★Three music videos for "Scream"", "What's itgonnabe" and "RhythmNation1814". What's itgonnabe", "gilrfriend/boyfriend" and "callonme" were ranked No. 1 with $7 million, $2.4 million, $1.5 million and $1 million respectively. "callonme" was ranked first, sixth, fifteenth and nineteenth on the list of the world's most expensive music videos, at $1 million each.
Billboard
Janet Jackson's two records on the UK Singles Chart:
★Most top 10 non-championing singles: BonJovi and Janet Jackson (17)
★Most top 10 non-champion singles:
★The artist with the most top 5 non-charting singles:Janet Jackson(9)
★"That's the Way to Love" became South Africa's most successful song of all time, and it holds the record for a 9-week No. 1 and 44-week chart run.
★1998's "Together Again" was Jenny's biggest selling single worldwide selling over 5.5 million copies, one of the best-selling singles by a female artist, and stayed in the top 50 of the HOT 100 for almost a year. Sold 760,000+ copies in the UK, 600,000+ in Germany, certified platinum single in Netherlands,France,Belgium,SouthAfrica,Italy, and double platinum in New Zealand and Australia
★ Ranked #7 on billboard's 2008 50th Anniversary Artist Achievement Overall Ranking #7 Female Ranking #3 ( No. 2 female artist of color (behind Madonna and Mariah Carey) No. 1 female artist of color (behind Stevie Wonder)
★Named the No. 2 Most Successful Female Artist of the '90s by Billboard in 1999
★The 1986 album Control was the first album to score five consecutive top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100
★The album was the first to score five consecutive top-five singles on the Billboard Hot 100, and was certified double-platinum in New Zealand and Australia. The only album in rock history to hold the record for five consecutive No. 1 studio albums on the billboard 200 albums chart, all of her studio albums since 1986 have gone at least two places on the billboard 200 albums chart
★The billboard Rhythm & Blues singles chart with 15 No. 1 singles by a female artist, second only to Aretha
★billboard dance chart with 19 No. 1 singles by a female artist overall
★1993 studio album "Janet." was the first female artist to reach No. 1 on the album chart since the adoption of the Nielsen system by billboard
★"Control. is the first and only album to have five Billboard Rhythm and Blues chart-topping songs.
★First/only artist to have three consecutive albums that each yielded at least five top 10 hit singles on the billboardhot100
★First artist to simultaneously hold the number one spot on the billboardhot100 Rhythm & Blues and Dance charts
★First artist to have a single enter the charts in its first week on the Billboard Hot 100 (1996 runaway) and the first artist to have a Top 5 single in its first week on the chart (1995 Scream)
★The first artist to have four No. 1 hits on the Billboard Dance Chart with a single album
★The single "All For You" is the first and only single in American music history to reach No. 1 and No. 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart
★The first and only single in U.S. music history to reach No. 1 in the charts. The first and only song in American music history to be added to all radio playlists in its first week of release
★Hot100top10 singles cumulative number second only to Beatles Madonna (29)
★Holds the record for 18 consecutive singles that have taken a top10 score on the billboardhot100 chart
★ Holds the record for 25 consecutive singles to take Top 10 scores on the Rhythm & Blues Chart
★Holds the record for most Rhythm & Blues Chart Top 10 singles (30)
★Holds the record for the most awards at a single Billboard Awards show (14 trophies in 1990)
★1986 with "When I Think About You" became the youngest artist to hit the HOT 100, a record Britney broke in the '90s
★Recorded 660 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 since 1982Recorded 570+ weeks on the 200 Albums Chart Records
★The only artist in billboard history to have held the number one spot on the Dance,Pop,Rock,Rap,R&B,AdultContemporaryandTop40charts.7 charts
People Comments
Jeanine Jackson's RhythmNation1814" and "The Velvet Rope" are among Rolling Stone's "500 Greatest Albums of All Time," and "Control" and "Janet." are among the "200 Most Valuable Albums of All Time" by the National Recording Industry Association's Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Personal Reviews
"RhythmNation1814" was the first of the newjackswing genre to enter the mainstream.
"NASTY" was named Rolling Stone's 79th best song in rock history.
Jenny was honored by MTVICON in 2001 for her outstanding impact on pop culture.
Jean was honored as the best dancing female artist of all time.