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La Toya Jackson

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

Early life

La Toya Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, the fifth of nine children born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson. After her mother became a devout Jehovah's Witness in 1966, Jackson, along with brother Michael, chose to follow that religion, her sibings having given it up. Jackson would spend some of her time (alongside her mother) evangelising door-to-door. "Every morning, Michael and I witnessed, knocking on doors around Los Angeles, spreading the word of Jehovah."[1] By 1974, Jackson was brought into the spotlight with her family after her father arranged for the family to perform shows in Las Vegas and in other cities.[2] By 1979, Jackson and her other sisters Rebbie and Janet formed a short-lived group, though they never sang live together and eventually broke away due to arguments over the direction of the group and lack of available rehearsal time. [3]The next year, Jackson began work on her first solo album.

Music career

In 1980, Jackson released her self-titled debut. Aside from the top 40 R&B and dance placings of her first single, "If You Feel the Funk", the album failed to generate commercial interest. Her three subsequent albums also met with limited success, although she scored a modest Billboard Hot 100 hit with 1984's "Heart Don't Lie" single, which peaked at #56. Her 1985 single "Baby Sister" is also notable as a moderate success, as it received one of three Outstanding Song Awards at the 1985 World Popular Song Festival in Japan.[4]

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"Baby Sister"
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In 1988, Jackson released the album La Toya, which featured the single, "You're Gonna Get Rocked!". The album also included a track titled "Just Say No", which was written for the Reagan administration's anti-drug campaign. [5] Neither the album or the singles managed to make any sort of impact, despite production by Full Force. The album is notable for being the first one Jackson released after changing her management. [6] Jack Gordon became Jackson's new manager following the departure of her father. Prior to Latoya's marriage to Jack Gordon she was already secretly married in 1989 to Frank Paul Jones AKA Frank Paul Gambino, whom is the son of Carlo Gambino and an African American woman named Blond Eva Austin Jones. The pair later married in 1989 under duress and therefore it was not legally binding, into a relationship which, Jackson claims, was an abusive one.[7] The fake marriage ended in 1996, after Gordon beat Jackson for refusing to perform.[8]

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One of the many editions of the Bad Girl album

In 1989, the Bad Girl album was first released. The album is one of the few in her back catalogue that remains in print, and can be found under various titles and covers.

Jackson later released two cover albums, one of country music and another of Motown hits, in the mid-1990s. She plans to release her first album in over a decade with Startin' Over. [1] The album has been delayed several times: Jackson's record label, Ja-Tail Records (distributed through Universal Music Group) has stated that extenuating circumstances have prevented the release. As of mid-2007, a release date has yet to be confirmed; the last tentative one having passed in Summer 2006. [2]

On December 21 2006, Jackson issued a "newsletter" from her official website, apologizing for the delays, and stating that a final release date will be announced soon. [3]

After a two-year hiatus, Jackson's new single "I Don't Play That" was released to radio in January of 2007. The single will not, according to Jackson's management, appear on the still forthcoming Startin' Over album, which has now been delayed for five straight years.

Playboy and the Jackson family estrangement

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La Toya in her infamous Playboy video

In 1989, Jackson ventured into modelling, she states that it was her own decision to pose nude for Playboy, showing her breasts, buttocks and pubis area.[9] However, according to several later interviews Jackson maintains that the 'playboy' incident was not her idea and what she did (and the things she stated in her book) was under the control and threat of violence from her then manager and so-called husband, Jack Gordon. She explains further that her apparent willingness to pose nude was part of her then alleged husband's plan to sexually exploit her for millions of dollars. She said she complied out of fear and this was not something she would have done otherwise.[10][11]

Her first cover and layout was one of the most successful issues in Playboy's history. 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 in a 1994 video for the magazine, becoming one of the first celebrities to have a Playboy video aired. It was later revealed that Jackson initially refused to pose for the second spread and for the video, however, Gordon beat her into submission. [12]

After allegedly marrying Gordon in September 1989, Jackson distanced herself from certain members of her family, although she claims to have spoken with several of her siblings during this period. Her 1991 autobiography La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family was probably the main reason for this estrangement, as it made scathing criticisms of several family members, including the allegation that her father physically abused members of the family, notably herself and sister Rebbie.[13] Rebbie Jackson denied these claims, while other members of the family hypothesised that that part of the book had, in fact, been written by Gordon.

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Cover of Jackson's first Playboy pictorial

In 1993, Jackson, at a press conference overseas, declared that she believed rumors that brother Michael had sexually abused children. She later stated in an interview that her accusations at this time were delivered under threat of violence from her then invented husband. She has claimed that these accusation would not have been made by her had she not been under threat [14]Furthermore, the initial accusations of child molestation surfaced that year, prompting members of the family to refute the charges, claiming that Jackson was "controlled and used" by Gordon - Jackson's father wrote about Gordon's control in his book The Jacksons. Two years later, she made headlines again for announcing the so-called "Jackson Family Secret Phone Number Line". In 1996, however, Jackson walked out on Gordon after he attempted to force her to dance at a strip club in Cleveland, Ohio. The former Jehovah's Witness (she was shunned in 1987) refused to do so and in return, was booed and heckled by the predominantly male crowd.[15] Jack Gordon was pronounced dead in April of 2005.

In 1997, she ended her estrangement with the entire Jackson family and returned home to Hayvenhurst. That year, she divorced Gordon. Jackson has no children and currently resides in Los Angeles and Las Vegas.

Divorce from Jack Gordon

See Gordon v. Gordon

Armed and Famous

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Jackson as a participant in the reality show Armed and Famous

On January 10, 2007, the reality TV show Armed and Famous premiered on CBS starring Jackson and other minor celebrities. The show was eventually removed from the CBS lineup, having been criticised for its inability to compete with American Idol. VH1 subsequently decided to air the show, also re-running the episodes that had previously aired on CBS.

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"I Don't Play That"
A sample from "I Don't Play That", a single by La Toya Jackson.
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Template:Sample box end 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 and relieve her of her 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.

Discography

For complete discography and sales information see La Toya Jackson discography.

U.S Top 100 singles (Billboard Dance Charts)


VHS / DVD

Awards and other achievements

Cultural references

Notes

  1. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. p. 54. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  2. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. p. 65. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  3. ^ Jackson, Joseph (2004). The Jacksons. Random House Entertainment. p. 115. 3809030287. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)
  4. ^ http://users.telenet.be/wpsf/WPSF1985.htm
  5. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. pp. 205–206. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  6. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. p. 207. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  7. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. p. 251. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  8. ^ "LaToya Jackson files for divorce from husband Jack Gordon; claims he beat her, threatened to kill her.", Jet Magazine, 3 June 1996.
  9. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. pp. 227–228. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  10. ^ http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/04/lkl.00.html
  11. ^ http://abcnews.go.com/2020/MichaelJackson/Story?id=432027&page=2
  12. ^ "La Toya Jackson files gender-based violence suit against supposed husband. ", Jet Magazine, 15 July 1996.
  13. ^ Jackson, La Toya (1991). La Toya: Growing up in the Jackson Family. Dutton Publishing. pp. 18–20. ISBN 0-451-17415-1. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |month= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=3VnPqCAv47c
  15. ^ Morrison, Jane Ann: "Gordon's family leaves the skeletons in his closet and out of his obit.", Las Vegas Review-Journal, 28 April 2005.
  16. ^ http://www.vh1.com/artists/az/jackson_latoya/bio.jhtml
  17. ^ http://users.telenet.be/wpsf/WPSF1985.htm
  18. ^ http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/2006/Jun-28-Wed-2006/news/8205417.html

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