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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. After initially performing on stage with her family at the age of seven at the MGM Casino, Jackson began her career as an actress with the television series The Jacksons—a variety show staring herself and seven of her eight older siblings—which debuted in 1976, and 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).^[1] Jackson's tenth studio album, Discipline (2008) became her 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.^[2]

Jackson's Control, Rhythm Nation 1814, and janet. led her to become the only recording artist to ever score five or more top ten singles from three consecutive albums,^[3] which include "Control," "Rhythm Nation," "Black Cat," "Love Will Never Do (Without You)" and "Again." Rhythm Nation 1814 also enabled Jackson to become the first recording artist to ever achieve seven top five hit singles from a single album.^[4] Rolling Stone magazine named Rhythm Nation 1814 and The Velvet Rope as two of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,^[5] while Jackson's 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.^[6] Though Jackson is listed by the Recording Industry Association of America as the eleventh top-selling female artist in America with 26 million certified albums,^[7] according to Billboard magazine, she is one of the top ten selling artists in the history of contemporary music;^[8][9] 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,^[10] selling over 100 million albums worldwide.^[11][12]

Tyler Perry's feature film 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, has won more than thirty Billboard Music Awards,^[13] and received an Oscar nomination at the 66th Academy Awards; Jackson was also granted the Legend Award from the World Music Awards,^[14] the 'Award of Merit' from the American Music Awards and became the first recipient of the mtvICON tribute.^[15]