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| JANET JACKSON: THE BIOGRAPHY | |
| JANET JACKSON: THE OFFICIAL BIOGRAPHY Janet Damita Jackson, 16 May 1966, Gary, Indiana, USA. Jackson was the youngest of the nine children in the family that produced the Jackson Five (including Michael Jackson, Jermaine Jackson and LaToya Jackson). When she was four years old, the family moved to the Los Angeles area; three years later she made her performing debut in Las Vegas with her brothers. At the age of nine, she joined them on a television special. She was cast in the US television programmes Good Times from 1977-79 and Diff'rent Strokes from 1981-82. She signed to A&M Records in 1982 and recorded her self-titled debut album, followed by Dream Street in 1984. Both albums sold only moderately. Jackson's breakthrough came in 1986 with Control, which reached number 1 and produced an astonishing five US Top 10 singles (including the chart-topping "When I Think Of You") and three UK Top 10 singles. The album was ultimately certified quadruple platinum for sales of over four million copies in the USA. Jackson followed up in 1989 with Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814, another quadruple platinum album, which yielded the US chart-topping singles "Miss You Much", "Escapade", "Black Cat", and "Love Will Never Do (Without You)". Jackson undertook her first concert tour in 1990. By the end of the year she had scooped eight Billboard awards, including Top R&B Albums and Singles Artist, Best Pop and R&B Album Award for Rhythm Nation, and Top Hot 100 Singles Artist. The success of the Rhythm Nation album continued into 1991 when, in January, Jackson became the first artist in history to have culled from one album seven Top 5 singles in the Billboard chart. Jackson's commercial peak continued into the 90s with the unprecedented performance of her Virgin Records' debut Janet, which entered the US album chart at number 1, beating brother Michael's sales record by selling 350,000 copies in its first week. Further US chart-topping singles included "That's The Way Love Goes" (number 1 for eight weeks) and "Again", which were also UK bestsellers. The compilation album Design Of A Decade was another huge seller, and followed her collaboration with brother Michael on "Scream". Performing as simply Janet, Jackson released her first studio set in four years, The Velvet Rope, a deeply personal album that dealt frankly with her much publicised emotional breakdown. The album entered the charts at number 1 in America, while the single "Together Again" topped the Hot 100 in January 1998. A collaboration with BLACKstreet, "I Get Lonely", was a US number 3 hit in May. Both tracks also reached the UK Top 5. "Doesn't Really Matter", a song featured in the soundtrack to Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps, rose to the top of the US charts in August 2000. All For You was premiered the following April by the chart-topping title track. Janet's single ALL FOR YOU became a worldwide hit reaching number one in the US. Her latest album, also entitled ALL FOR YOU, also hit the top spot. Soon after, Janet began rehearsing for her world tour which was travelling to many countries and included around 100 shows. However, tragedy struck in September when America came under attack and Janet decided to cancel her entire European tour. She succesfully completed the US tour and soon after announced Japan dates and a Hawaii date which, once again, would be aired live on HBO in February 2002. Her summer release was Someone To Call My Lover which included remixes from Jermaine Dupri and Hex Hector. It reached only number 11 in the UK which was fairly disappointing, but sent sales of the album soring. In November 2001, Janet collaborated with Missy Elliot on a remix of her album track Son of a Gun. Missy features in the video and the song also sees remixes from P Diddy and Cottonbelly. Virgin America re-released the ALL FOR YOU album, excluding Would You Mind and including two remixes of Son of a Gun. It was also packaged with a Limited Edition DVD that included several of Janet's most recent music videos from the janet. album through to the present day. After the cancellation of the European tour, Janet decided to travel to Japan to perform a few dates there in early 2002. Returning to the US, she added some more shows which culminated in the successful HBO special in February 2002. Meanwhile, Janet has been looking at scripts for a new movie which she hopes to start at the end of 2002. ANY FALSE STATEMENTS THAT APPEAR ARE BY MISTYPE
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