Birth Name: Janet
Damita Jo Jackson
16 may 1966
Birthplace: Gary, Indiana
Occupation: musician, composer, actress
Husband/Wife: Rene Elizondo,
Jr (married March 1991; divorced pending); James DeBarge (married on August
1985; anulled)
Father: Joseph Walter Jackson
Mother: Katherine Esther
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Sisters: La Toya Yvonne;
Maureen Reilette (Rebbie)
Brothers: Sigmund Esco (Jackie),
Tariano Adaryll (Tito), Jermaine La Juane, Marlon David, Michael Joseph, Steven
Randall (Randy)
Grammy Award-winning pop-funk singer whose soft,
sexy singing often takes a back-seat to her athletic, energetic dancing and
artistic videos. Her recordings include Control (1986), Janet Jackson's
Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989) and janet (1993). In 1996, she became the
country's highest paid female recording artist. One of her brother is Michael Jackson.
Facts about Janet:
She's the youngest of nine kids in the musical
Jackson family, including brother Michael and wild sister LaToya.
Janet first performed with her family at the age of seven. Many in the family
have written tell-all books about the pressures and fights that came with their
incredible fame and fortune.
Her brother Michael gave Janet a key that was
used to cage a deer they had when they were kids. He put the key in her earring,
and she used it as part of her "Rhythm Nation" look. There's a wax
statue of her, with the actual earring, in London's Rock Circus.
More about that brother... Janet still goes by
the nickname Michael coined for her: "Dunk," short for donkey. Years
ago, Janet dreamed of being a jockey.
You may have noticed that plastic surgery is
sort of a hobby among the Jackson family. Janet is no exception, having had
her nose resculpted.
With her song, "When I Think
of You", in 1986, she and her brother, Michael Jackson, became the first
sibblings in the rock era to have #1 songs as soloists.
Sister of Rebbie Jackson, Jackie
Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, LaToya Jackson, Marlon Jackson, Michael
Jackson and Randy Jackson
Has her right nipple and her nose
pierced
Janet was paid $3 million for
the Nutty Professor 2. She was paid any extra $1 million for the song "Doesn't
Really Matter" for the NP2 soundtrack.
Janet and long time boyfriend
Rene were secretly married for nine years. They were married in March of 1991
and Rene filed for divorce in May of 2000.
(1999) Dated singer Johnny Gill.
The only member of the famous
Jackson family to ever be nominated for an Academy Award -- in 1994 for the
hit single "Again" from the film Poetic Justice.
Voted one of "The 10 Sexiest
Women of 2001" by the readers of Black Men Magazine.
Aunt of Jermaine Jackson II.
Personal quotes:
I used to hurt so badly that I'd ask God why, what have I done to deserve any
of this? I feel now He was
preparing me for this, for the future. That's the way I see it.
- Janet Jackson
