Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966 in Gary Indiana USA) is an icon, Grammy-winning and Golden Globe and Academy Award-nominated American singer songwriter music producer, dancer and actress
The youngest of the Jackson family, she first stepped into the limelight in the family 1974 Las Vegas production 1976 television show and later on its own as a television actress at the age of sixteen in 1982 she wrote a record deal with A & M released their eponymous debut album by Janet Jackson that year was followed by Dream Street (1984)
I an attempt to establish its own identity beyond her famous family, Jackson teamed up with producers Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis in the mid-1980s, creating a superstar-making partnership which has lasted until today JacksonR17,'s BreakOut album Control (1986) led to the Grammy-winning album Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) Janet (1993) The Velvet Rope (1997) All for You (2001) and Grammy-nominated albums Damita Jo (2004) and 20 years ( 2006)
1990 with the launch of Black Cat from her Rhythm Nation 1814 album Jackson became the first and only artist in Billboard history to score a # 1 hit on Billboard's Hot 100 Chart, R & B charts Dance Chart Adult Contemporary and Rock charts when "Black Cat" hit # 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock singles chart and the Billboard Hot 100 was the first time a song had hit # 1 at the same time on both of these Charts
Together Again "sold more than 700,000 UK making it one of the biggest-selling singles ever in United Kingdom of a FEMA lineartist, and sold the total of four million copies
In 2004, Jackson ranked as the ninth most successful artist of all time rock and roll according to Billboard Jackson also holds the record for most Billboard Music Awards won by a single artist record one 33 year 2006 it was announced that Jackson was the "Most Searched on Internet" and "Most-Searched for News Item" in the Guinness Book of World Records in 2007, she was ranked seventh richest woman in entertainment by Forbes magazine to gather a wealth of over 150 million U.S. dollars
