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, which has produced several musicians. Initially starting her career as an actress with the television series entitled The Jacksons—a variety show staring herself and seven of her eight older siblings—which debuted in 1976, Jackson 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 recordbreaking success, producing five consecutive number one studio albums, beginning with the release of Control (1986) and followed by Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation 1814 (1989), janet. (1993), The Velvet Rope (1997), and All for You (2001).
Since 1986, Jackson has scored thirty-two number-one singles on various Billboard charts, and is the only recording artist ever to score five or more top ten singles from three consecutive albums, which include "Control," "Rhythm Nation," "Black Cat," and "Again." With sixteen number one hits on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, Jackson is the female artist with the second most number one singles on that chart, second only to Aretha Franklin who has eighteen. Jackson is also the first artist to have number one singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 singles chart across the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s. While Jackson is listed by the Recording Industry Association of America as the eleventh top-selling female artist in America with 26 million certified albums, according to Billboard magazine she is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music; 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, selling over 100 million albums worldwide.
Discipline (2008) became Jackson's sixth number one album, tying her in second place alongside Madonna among female artists with the most number one albums behind Barbra Streisand's eight chart-toppers. Why Did I Get Married? (2007), for which she 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). In addition to her commercial accomplishments, Jackson has won five Grammy Awards, received an Oscar nomination at the 66th Academy Awards, and has won more than thirty Billboard Music Awards, and has also been dubbed a "Queen of Pop" by various media outlets. In addition to becoming listed by the Guinness World Records as the world's most searched-for person in Internet history, Jackson has been placed on Forbes "Top 20 Richest Women in Entertainment" list.
Janet Smith Jackson (born December 13, 1958), is a British TV journalist. She is the anchor of BBC1's Breakfast.
