Brown Sista

Pop icon Janet Jackson is getting into the reality TV business, developing a music competition with 25/7 Productions for MTV. The as yet untitled project, which has already started casting, will feature Janet as she mentors a group of aspiring singers and dancers. The project will be shot in the coming months as the singer prepares for her world tour, which launches on Sept. 10th. “It’s really about finding who’s the next Janet Jackson, Chris Brown or Usher,” said executive producer Dave Broome. “And we’ll find it from a pool of people who you wouldn’t typically find it from. We’ll go to YMCAs, church groups, local community centers and try to cast the show.” The series will also take place in various street locales, rather than on a studio soundstage. Producers are still ironing out the prize - but it could potentially relate to Jackson’s tour.
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Singer Janet Jackson has aired her frustrations with Island Def Jam, whom she claims is no longer supporting her label debut, “Discipline.” The album has sold 392,000 copies in the United States since its February release, according to Nielsen SoundScan. Jackson told SOHH that Island discontinued promoting “Discipline” after her single, “Rock With U,” failed to chart. Additional friction apparently resulted from Island also releasing “LUV” as a single, despite Jackson’s wish that “LUV” be worked on its own. “Luv” peaked at No. 34 on Billboard’s Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, while the first single released from the new album, “Feedback,” reached No. 39.
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Pop diva Janet Jackson has announced she will tour for the first time in seven years, kicking off the jaunt September 20th in Vancouver. The singer announced the news today, and revealed that she didn’t tour her 2006 album ‘20 Y.O.’ after her record label asked her not to, despite the fact that she was already in preparation mode. “I was supposed to go on tour with the last album,” Jackson told the Associated Press. “We were actually in full-blown tour rehearsals at that point … learning numbers, getting everything together, set designs, I had to kind of shut everything down and go into the studio.” The result was Jackson’s new album ‘Discipline’, which was released in February. She will now support her last two albums on the forthcoming ‘Rock Witchu’ tour, for which a handful of dates have been revealed. Dates are scheduled for New York and Washington with the full tour itinerary expected to be announced shortly. Tickets will go on sale June 7th.
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Singer Janet Jackson turned 42 years old yesterday and celebrated her big day with her longtime boyfriend Jermaine Dupri at Katsuya Restaurant. Unlike past birthdays Miss Jackson didn’t have a big celebration at a Hollywood night club but rather chose to keep it intimate and low key. Congrats to Janet! She’s still beautiful at 42 and I can’t wait to see her show these youngins how it’s done when she hits the touring circuit later on this year.
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Singer Janet Jackson at Alexander McQueen’s Los Angeles Flagship Store Launch Party on May 13th 2008 at Alexander McQueen Boutique in Los Angeles, California.
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Singer Janet Jackson, who is about to turn 42 years old this month, was spotted out in Hollywood last night with boyfriend Jermaine Dupri. Earlier in the day Janet had given her first performance since falling ill back in March at the United America Concert which was held at the Del Mar Beach. The free concert, in support of our troops, also featured performances by Jordin Sparks, Ne-Yo, Snoop Dogg and a host of other artists. Not much is known about this concert and few if any people outside of army folk in California knew about it. However, the word on Janet forums is that it was taped by NBC and will air on June 1st.
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Brown Sistas from across the Hollywood spectrum turned out in force tonight for the start of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual Costume Institute Gala. This year’s event is being held to celebrate the museum’s latest exhibition: Sperheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.Singers Janet Jackson, Beyonce and Mary J. Blige walked the red carpet alongside actresses like Thandie Newton and Paula Patton and all looked fabulous.
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