Janet Jackson

Singer, dancer and actress, Janet Damita Jackson is a global pop and R&B superstar and a phenomenal entertainer who is one of the greatest selling and award winning artiste of all time.

Early Accomplishments

She was 7 when she had her debut stage performance in Las Vegas and at age 10, started to act in The Jacksons. 

She starred in Good Times, A New Kind of Family and Different Strokes. 

At 16, she released her debut album Janet Jackson and Dream Street dropped 2 years later. 

Best Known For

She has wowed music lovers with songs like Miss You Much, Nasty, That’s The Way Love Goes and I Get Lonely and with albums such as Control in 1986, Rhythm Nation 1814 in 1989, janet. in 1993 and Unbreakable in 2015, Janet is estimated to have sold 100 million records.

Sexual Orientation

Janet is straight. In 2017, she began divorce proceedings for her 2012 marriage to Wissam Al Mana. 

Her marriage to Rene Elizondo Jr in 1991 broke down in 2000 after her one year marriage to James DeBarge in 1984. 

She was engaged to Jermaine Dupri between 2004 and 2009 after briefly dating Matthew McConaughey in 2002. 

Family

She is the littlest of the 10 children born to Katherine and Joseph “Joe” Jackson. 

Her siblings are Brandon, Jackie, Jermaine, LaToya, Marlon, Randy, Rebbie, Tito and most famously, Michael Jackson. 

She has a half-sister, Joh’Vonnie and she is the mother of Eissa, born in 2017.

Religion

Janet was raised devoutly in a Jehovah Witness home. As she grew older, she started becoming less religious and more spiritual. However, due to her marital engagement with Wissam, she is widely perceived to have converted to Islam.

Worth To Know

Janet is credited with a total of 435 award nominations, winning 214.

She is the only female singer to have 18 consecutive top 10 hits.