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La Toya Jackson

La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, author, television personality and actress. She is the fifth child of the famous Jackson family. She had a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to music in 2004 with her Billboard charting songs "Just Wanna Dance" and "Free The World". A forthcoming album, Startin' Over, has yet to be released.[1]

Life and Career

1956-1974: Early Life

Born on her sister Rebbie's 6th birthday on May 29, 1956 in Gary, Indiana, La Toya Jackson is the fifth of nine children born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson and the middle female child between Rebbie and Janet. Growing up, La Toya was a shy homebody. After her mother became one of Jehovah's Witnesses in 1966, La Toya, along with her brother Michael, followed. She would spend some of her time (alongside her mother) preaching door-to-door. "Every morning, Michael and I witnessed, knocking on doors around Los Angeles, spreading the word of Jehovah (as the bible commands)."[2] By 1974, at sixteen, La Toya joined her brothers in the spotlight with a tap dancing routine when her father arranged for them to perform shows in Las Vegas, among other cities.[3] Jackson aspired to be an attorney specializing in entertainment law. She attended to college for a short time before her father insisted that she pursue a career in show business like the rest of the family.

1976-1980: The Jacksons and first intrest in Music

In 1976 and 1977, La Toya and her sisters Rebbie and Janet appeared in all twelve episodes of "The Jacksons", a variety program on CBS. Along with their brothers, La Toya and her sisters sang, danced and performed skits. In 1978 during the filming of her brothers movie "The Wiz" La Toya traveled with her brother to New York, the first time either of them had lived elsewhere as adults. The two shared an apaertment In New York. La Toya did not appear in the film but Michael had asked her to tag along with him. La Toya and her brother Michael were very close through younger years. In interviews on both parts they have mentioned never moving out until La Toya was 29 and Michael did not move out of the Encino home until 30. By 1979, La Toya and her sisters formed a short-lived girl group. However, they never performed live and soon separated due to differences about the future direction the act should take. As a consequence no related material was ever released by the trio.[4] The next year she began work on her first solo album.

1980-81: La Toya Jackson

In 1980, Jackson released her self-titled debut.[5][6] The first single "If You Feel The Funk", became a minor hit, climbing into the Top 40 of the R&B chart. Her second single, "Night Time Lover", was produced by younger brother Michael who provided backing vocals. In turn, she provided the opening scream on her brothers', The Jacksons, 1980 hit, "This Place Hotel" as well as backing vocals on brother Michael's 1984 solo hit "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing). The album peaked at #116 on the Billboard 200, #26 on the Billboard R&B charts, and #178 in the UK Top 200, making it her highest charting album. It spawned two singles: "If You Feel the Funk" and "Night Time Lover".

"If You Feel the Funk" performed modestly on the charts, narrowly missing out on the Billboard Hot 100 at #101. However, it peaked at #17 on the Billboard Dance/Club Play Chart and #40 on the Billboard R&B chart. It also reached #42 in Germany and #18 in Holland. "If You Feel the Funk" was also released as a 12" single in the United Kingdom where it failed to chart. The follow up single, "Night Time Lover" failed to generate attention, despite brother Michael singing on the track (who was at the time generating critical and public acclaim for his album Off The Wall). It peaked at #59 on the Billboard R&B chart.

In order to distinguish herself from her famous brothers, The Jacksons, La Toya only wanted her first name on the album. "I begged just to have it 'La Toya'. But my father said, 'It's your last name. You got to use it.' But I wanted to see what I could do as an individual."[7]

1982-84: My Special Love

In the year 1892 it was realeased Jackson's seconed studio album titled My Special Love[8]. The album is one of Jackson's more successful, peaking at #175 on the Billboard Hot 200 charts. After the album's limited success, it fell into obscurity, receiving a limited re-release on CD in Japan in the early 1990s, which was quickly deleted. This was the last Jackson album released with Polydor Records.

Allmusic called it "the defining album of Jackson's career." stating that "Though her voice isn't particularly strong, Jackson makes up for what she lacks in power with an energetic, uninhibited approach to the music. Benefiting from solid R&B-funk arrangements and the well-rounded production of Ollie E. Brown, her sophomore album is a flavorful mixture of lively uptempo romps and smooth-sailing slow jams"[1]

1894-87: Heart Don't Lie

1984 saw the release of Jackson's critically acclaimed album Heart Don't Lie. Jackson scored her biggest Billboard Hot 100 hit with the titular track "Heart Don't Lie", which peaked at number 56. Other singles from this album were "Bet'cha Gonna Need My Lovin'", "Hot Potato", and a cover of Prince's "Private Joy." Jackson and Amir Bayyan co-wrote "Reggae Nights" for Heart Don't Lie but the track did not make the cut. Jimmy Cliff's recording of the song was a hit and was nominated for a Grammy. Cliff commissioned Jackson to write two more songs: "Brown Eyes" and "American Sweet."

In 1985 Jackson participated on the single "We Are the World", an appeal for famine relief in Ethiopia. That same year Jackson featured in anti-drug music video "Stop the Madness".

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Template:Sample box endHer 1985 single "Baby Sister" was a notable success, as it received one of three Outstanding Song Awards at the 1986 World Popular Song Festival in Japan. "Baby Sister" was included on the album Imagination, released just before Jackson's record label, Private-I, went bankrupt resulting in poor promotion.[9] Jackson went on to record two duets; "Oops, Oh No!" with Cerrone, and "Yes, I'm Ready" with artist Jed. In 1987 Jackson was featured as a special guest at Minako Honda's DISPA (Disco Party) concert, joining in for the song, "Funkytown".

1987-90: La Toya and Bad Girl

In 1987, Jackson released the album La Toya, which featured the singles, "You're Gonna Get Rocked!" and "(Ain't Nobody Loves You) Like I Do". The album also included a track titled "Just Say No", which was written for the Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign.[10] The album included four tracks produced by Full Force, and three by Stock Aitken Waterman. The album is notable for being the first one Jackson released after changing her management.[11] Jack Gordon became Jackson's new manager following the departure of her father.

In September 1989, the Bad Girl album was first released. The album is among her easiest acquire of her back catalogue having been re-released numerous times, and can be found under various titles and covers. That year Jackson staged a live pay-per-view concert, A Sizzling Spectacular!, from Bally's theatre in Reno. Jackson's set list included songs from La Toya and Bad Girl. The show featured special guest star Edgar Winter. [12]In 1990, Jackson participated in the Sanremo Music Festival, submitting "You and Me" as her entry. While "You and Me" did not win Best Song, it entered Italy's hit parade, peaking at number twenty-eight.

1990-97

After Bad Girl Jackson signed on with German-based BCM Records and released the single "Why Don't You Want My Love?" Jackson recorded other material with BCM, but the label went bankrupt and album plans were scrapped. Jackson signed with Dino Records quickly thereafter. 1991 saw the release of No Relations, an album with strong house and funk influences. This album featured Jackson's top twenty-five Netherlands hit "Sexbox".

In 1992 Jackson signed a contract with the Moulin Rouge in Paris to star in her own revue, Formidable. Jackson was to perform two shows a night, six nights a week. Jackson was highest paid performer in the cabaret's history earning a reported $5 million. Though Formidable was successful, selling out on most nights, Jackson departed half-way into her year-long contract owing the nightclub $550,000 in damages. [13][14]

In 1993 Jackson held a concert at Poland's Sopot International Song Festival. Jackson later released two cover albums, one of country music, From Nashville To You, and another of Motown hits, Stop in the Name of Love, in the mid-1990s. Jackson's last single of the 1990s was "Don't Break My Heart."

1997-Present

Jackson took a hiatus from music after her divorce from Gordon in 1997, re-appearing in 2003 to announce her first musical project in six years, Startin' Over.[15] The lead single was 2004's "Just Wanna Dance" which La Toya released independently under her pseudonymous nickname "Toy" in order to avoid any prejudices DJs might hold against La Toya Jackson's name. The plan worked, with "Just Wanna Dance" reaching #13 on the US Billboard Hot Dance chart. "Free The World" was released later that year to similar success. Jackson's label, Ja-Tail Records secured a deal with Universal Music Group to distribute the album, which was delayed several times due to extenuating circumstances. After a two-year hiatus, "I Don't Play That," a non-album single, was released to radio in January of 2007.

The 2003 promotional copy of Startin' Over leaked online in 2006, however Jackson's management revealed that the entire album was being re-recorded with an all-new track list and updated sound.

The final version of Startin' Over was completed in late 2008, just before Jackson joined the cast of Celebrity Big Brother. A new lead single, "Love, Honor, and Obey," planned for a summer 2009 release, was put on hold due to the death of Jackson's younger brother Michael. Instead, "Home" was released on the 28th of July 2009 in Michael's memory with all proceeds going to AIDS Project Los Angeles, one of his favorite charities. [16][17]

Public notoriety and exile from the Jackson family

In 1987, Jack Gordon was hired to co-manage La Toya by her father, Joseph. He later took over her management completely.

Under Gordon's management, Jackson's public image became increasingly sexier. Katherine Jackson recalled her shock seeing La Toya dance in a suggestive manner in 1988 for the first time in her autobiography My Family, The Jacksons, "she'd been so conservative that she'd once dropped a friend who had begun wearing low-cut tops and skirts with slits in them." Katherine believed that Gordon was distancing La Toya from her family so he could "become the dominating influence in her life."[18] Around this time Jackson was disfellowshipped by the Jehovah's Witnesses.

In March 1989, Jackson posed topless for Playboy magazine. Jackson saw the pictorial as a declaration of independence from her conservative upbringing and "to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more--that I control my life." [19] The cover and layout was one of the most successful issues in Playboy's history, turning Jackson into an overnight sex symbol. [20]At its time of release, it sold over 8 million copies, going on to become the best selling issue of the magazine ever. She posed again in Playboy in 1991 to promote her autobiography and subsequently acted in a 1994 video for the magazine, becoming one of the first celebrities to have a Playboy video released. It was later revealed that Jackson initially refused to pose for the second spread and for the video, however, Gordon beat her into submission.[21][22][23]

On September 5, 1989, after her Sizzling Spectacular concert in Nevada, Gordon married Jackson, claiming it was for her own protection against kidnapping by her family. La Toya Jackson states that this was both unplanned and against her wishes. According to Jackson; "I told him, 'No way, Jack! I can't marry you. You know what marriage means to me. I've never been in love; I don't even date.... It's not right. I don't love you. I don't have feelings for you.'" [24]Jackson tried to run out of the chapel three times but bodyguard Antonio Rossi grabbed her saying, "There's some things you have to do. Even if you don't want to." [25][26] Jackson told Ebony magazine the marriage was "strictly in name only. It has never been consummated." [27] Six months into the marriage, Jackson asked Gordon for an annulment when in Rome, Italy. In response, Gordon repeatedly bashed her head against the corner of the hotel room table saying that he would never let her go. Paparazzi subsequently photographed Jackson with black eyes, which Gordon claimed was caused by an intruder. [28][29][30] From this point forward, Jackson lost all contact with her family and wrote an autobiography, La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family, which accused her father of physical abuse.[31]

For roughly the next decade Gordon controlled Jackson with threats, lies, and routine violence. According to Jackson, "When he hit me, the first time I was in shock, I just recalled my ear ringing, just ringing so hard." [32] Gordon confiscated Jackson's passport, transferred her bank accounts into his name, hired bodyguards to watch La Toya constantly and banned her from speaking to or seeing her family, monitoring her every phone call. [33]La Toya's father Joseph stated in his book The Jacksons that he believed Gordon brainwashed La Toya and made her fearful of her own family. [34] Katherine also believed that La Toya had been brainwashed while Gordon claimed that Katherine had tried to kill her daughter.[35] Sister Janet concurred with her parents saying at the time, "I think this guy who is with her has brainwashed her and made her like this... He keeps her away from the family, and now he's brainwashed her so much she keeps herself away from us." [36][37]

In 1993, in their New York home, Gordon beat Jackson repeatedly with a heavy brass dining room chair, leaving Jackson with black eyes, swollen lip and chin "the size of a clenched fist," cuts requiring 12 mouth stitches and contusions on her face, arms, legs and back. [38][39] Gordon was arrested but then released, claiming he beat Jackson in self defense. [40]

In December 1993 Gordon hastily arranged a press conference in Tel Aviv, where he had Jackson read a statement claiming to believe the sensational sex abuse allegation against her younger brother Michael might be true. This was an abrupt reversal of her previous stated position. [41][42]According to La Toya, Gordon threatened to have siblings Michael and Janet killed if she didn't follow his orders. [43] [44]

Under Gordon's management, Jackson's career declined, booking her disreputable jobs such as spokesperson for the Psychic Friends Network. Due to Gordon's steady stream of publicity stunts and her media portrayal as the Jackson "black sheep" La Toya had become a hate figure of sorts. [45] By the mid-1990s Jackson's finances were in disarray and she was forced to file for bankruptcy in order to stave off claims of $650,000 in damages to the Moulin Rouge for ending her contract early. [46]

In 1997, Gordon attempted to force Jackson to dance at a Cleveland, Ohio strip club. She refused to do so and in return, was booed and heckled by the predominantly male crowd.[47] When Jackson became aware that Gordon was planning to feature her in a pornographic film she decided she'd had enough. Jackson phoned brother Randy who flew to New York to help her escape while Gordon was out. [48][49] Only days later, La Toya filed for divorce from Las Vegas and sued Gordon in civil court for years of abuse. [50]

See Gordon v. Gordon

Seclusion and re-emergence

In 1997, she ended her estrangement with the entire Jackson family and returned home to Hayvenhurst. Jackson forgave her parents for her stifled upbringing reasoning, "I've come to realize that as we get older, we grow and learn a lot more. And I think that my father and my mother, they raised children the best way they know how." [51] According to La Toya, Michael knew that she was forced to attack him in the press against her will and he did not blame her. [52]

For six years afterward Jackson made few public appearances. When her divorce was finalized Jackson cloistered herself in her home and lived alone for the first time. Weary after her years of public scorn, she didn't know what to do with her life and was afraid to perform again. [53]Jackson struggled to rebuild her confidence but was plagued with self doubt, explaining, "I got to the point, [...] where -- well, you know in the media they say things like, 'Oh, she can't sing. She has no talent. She can't dance.' I started believing that, and I was thinking, 'Oh my God'. And I started thinking, 'Oh gee, how could this happen to me?' How could I start believing this?"[54]

In the wake of the September 11 attacks Jackson was moved to compose "Free The World". She performed the song for friends to a positive reception. This spurred on Jackson to write more songs, ending up with a full album, Startin' Over.

Jackson publicly re-emerged on Larry King Live on March 9 2003. Her appearance caused CNN's phone lines to stay busy for hours and was King's highest-rated show in three years. [55] After Jack Gordon's death in 2005, Jackson was free to speak more openly about the control he exerted over her life. She sent a security expert to eyewitness that Gordon had not faked his death a second time. [56] In 2005 she appeared on ABC News to renounce her previous allegations and defend brother Michael against new charges of child abuse.[57] VH1 described Jackson as a role model having weathered various successes and setbacks. [58] The perception of Jackson as an underdog and her support for LGBT rights has led her to be declared a gay icon.[59] Jackson has no children and resides in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Jackson was one of the first siblings present at Reagan-UCLA Medical Center on June 25, 2009 after brother Michael Jackson was pronounced dead after suffering cardiac arrest. She was named as the informant on her brother's death certificate.

Jackson requested a second autopsy to be carried out after noting suspicious medical paraphernalia in Michael's rented house, evasive behavior by his doctors, and discovering that $2 million in cash and jewels had gone missing. On July 13 an interview was published in News of the World and the Daily Mail where Jackson went public with her conclusion that Michael was murdered.[60] The Los Angeles County Coroner ruled Jackson's death a homicide weeks later. [61]

Jackson released "Home" as a charity single on July 28, 2009, dedicated to her late brother Michael.[62]

Television

Armed and Famous

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Template:Sample box end On January 10, 2007, the reality TV show Armed and Famous premiered on CBS starring Jackson and other celebrities. The program documented Jackson's basic training and service as a reserve police officer with the Muncie Police Department. Jackson maintains her badge by continuing to volunteer as a deputy. [63] The show was eventually removed from the CBS lineup, due to its inability to compete with American Idol. VH1 subsequently aired the remaining episodes. On the show, Jackson demonstrated her phobia of cats, after she began hysterically screaming and locked herself in a squad car. This fear, she revealed, was due to a childhood memory in which a relative was attacked by a cat. She underwent on-screen therapy to try to relieve her of this phobia. A single entitled "Armed and Famous" was planned, but the title was changed to "I Don't Play That" shortly before it was sent to radio stations, where it failed to take off, on January 29, 2007, due to CBS' cancellation of the show.

Celebrity Big Brother

In January 2009, Jackson was paid £103,000 to appear as a contestant on the British television program Celebrity Big Brother. She was the second member of the Jackson family to be on the show, the first being her brother Jermaine in 2007.[64][65] She was evicted 4th from the house and was the first evictee of the series to be cheered on her exit.

Discography

For complete discography and sales information see La Toya Jackson discography

Awards and other achievements

Cultural references

  • In the South Park episode It Hits the Fan, the character Chef refers to La Toya Jackson as the "Black Death."
  • In the Family Guy episode "E Peterbus Unum", La Toya Jackson is invited to say a prayer to begin a meeting at the mayor's office, because they were unable to get Jesse Jackson. She proceeds with the prayer "Rub-a-dub-dub, Thanks for the grub. Yay God!".
  • An In Living Color sketch made reference to her, when a character portraying Louis Farrakhan talked about how racial intolerance made "That poor child La Toya Jackson think she could sing."
  • A Mad TV sketch featured members of the Jackson family being taken out one by one by a enigmatic figure. The culprit is soon revealed to be none other than La Toya Jackson, who cites being "the only Jackson who couldn't do anything" as the primary motivation behind her actions. The real La Toya would appear in another sketch where she, Janet, Michael, and Tito get revenge against Jay Leno for making jokes about them on his show.
  • In A Different World, La Toya Jackson is mentioned several times, as the subject of Ron Johnson's fantasies.
  • In the Simpsons comic #71, Cecil Terwilliger laments, in reference to being compared to his brother Sideshow Bob, "Always a Tito, never a Michael...or even a La Toya."
  • In Code Monkeys, when Michael Jackson came to Game-A-Vision, Mr. Larrity mistook him for La Toya, of whom he's a big fan.
  • In the 2002 film, The Sweetest Thing, Christina Applegate takes a shot at La Toya's wardrobe.
  • In 2009 La Toya was to feature in Sacha Baron-Cohen's sketch film Brüno. The clip was subsequently cut from the premier, and later entirely, following the sudden death of La Toya's brother, Michael on the 25th of June 2009, out of respect for the Jackson family.

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  65. ^ http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Entertainment/International_Buzz/Jacksons_diva_demands_on_Big_Brother/articleshow/3937683.cms
  66. ^ LaToya Jackson | View the Music Artists Biography Online | VH1.com
  67. ^ http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3726117
  68. ^ http://www.liveauctioneers.com/item/3726089
  69. ^ reviewjournal.com - News - NORM : A dual celebration for Guy Laliberte


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