Janet Jackson

Janet Jackson is the ninth and last child in the musically talented Jackson family that includes
the Jackson 5, Michael Jackson, and Jermaine Jackson. Janet Jackson performed on stage with
her brothers at the age of seven. At ten, she acted in the TV series Good Times and was later
seen in Diff'rent Strokes and Fame. She released her first album, Janet Jackson, in 1982 and her
second, Dream Street, in 1984, but neither of these records was notably successful. Then, in 1985,
Jackson turned to the production team of Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis (formerly of the Time) for the
album Control, which, ironically, emphasized theartist's new maturity and independence, even
though most of the songs were co-compositions of the three. Control was a massive hit: it topped
the charts, selling more than four million copies, and spawned five Top Ten hits, including the #1
"When I Think of You." The follow-up, Rhythm Nation 1814, did even better, spawning seven Top
Ten hits, among them the #1s "Miss You Much," "Escapade," and "Black Cat." In 1991, Jackson
signed a new recording contract with Virgin Records for a reported $32 million.
1993's Janet. proved to be as successful as her previous two releases, featuring a series of Top
Ten singles including "If" and "That's the Way Love Goes.", 2 yeas later this followed by Janet
Remixed. Another 2 years later saw a more sexually explicit Janet on The Velvet Rope giving her
2 more hits, Together again and I Get Lonely.
After a hidden marriage revealed through a divorce, in the spring of 2001, Janet returned with
All for You, an album that is as about sex as much as The Velvet Rope, yet there's a key
difference -- it feels sexy, not pornographic. For the title track and first single she used a sample
of The Glow of Love by Change.