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Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson
Jackson during a 2006 press conference
Background information
Birth name	Janet Damita Jo Jackson
Also known as	Janet
Born	May 16, 1966 (1966-05-16) (age 41) Gary, Indiana, United States
Origin	Encino, Los Angeles, California, United States
Genre(s)	R&B, pop, dance-pop, new jack swing, soul, funk, rock
Occupation(s)	Singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, actress
Years active	1976–present
Label(s)	A&M, Virgin, Island Def Jam, Mercury
Associated acts	The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Jermaine Dupri
Website	www.janetjackson.com

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actress. Born and raised in Gary, Indiana, she is the youngest member of the Jackson family of musicians. Initially performing on stage with her family at the age of seven, Jackson began her career as an actress with the variety television series The Jacksons. She went on to star in other television shows including Good Times, A New Kind of Family, Diff'rent Strokes, and Fame. After launching her recording career in 1982, Jackson found record-breaking success. She produced five consecutive number one studio albums, beginning with the release of Control (1986) followed by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989), janet. (1993), The Velvet Rope (1997), and All for You (2001).

Jackson's Control, Rhythm Nation 1814, and janet. made her the only recording artist ever to score five or more top ten singles from three consecutive albums. Rhythm Nation 1814 also enabled Jackson to become the first recording artist to ever achieve seven top five hit singles from a single album. Rolling Stone magazine named Rhythm Nation 1814 and The Velvet Rope as two of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time; Control and janet. were listed by the National Association of Recording Merchandisers and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as two of the Definitive 200 Albums of All Time.

Though Jackson is listed by the Recording Industry Association of America as the eleventh top-selling female artist in the United States with 26 million certified albums, Billboard named her one of the top-ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music. She is also ranked as the ninth most successful act in the history of rock and roll and the second most successful female artist in pop music history, having sold over 100 million albums worldwide. Tyler Perry's feature film Why Did I Get Married? (2007), for which Jackson won the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture, became her third consecutive film to open at number one at the box office, following Poetic Justice (1993) and Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000).

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