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 Janet
Jackson to perform at halftime show
New York (Dec. 18, 2003) -- MTV: Music Television, the NFL,
and CBS Sports announced that mega-superstar Janet Jackson
will be the featured performer during the AOL Super Bowl XXXVIII
Halftime Show. Super Bowl XXXVIII will be held on Feb. 1,
2004 at Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, and will air on
CBS. The NFL selected MTV: Music Television to produce the
AOL halftime show. CBS and MTV are both owned by Viacom Inc.
"With Janet set as a featured performer and more performers
and surprise collaborations to follow, the stage has been
to set to produce an event that the Super Bowl audience will
remember for years to come," said Van Toffler, President,
MTV/MTV2.
"There is no bigger spectacle than the Super Bowl,"
said Janet Jackson. "It's a unique and exciting experience
that I have looked forward to for many years."
"The AOL Halftime Show is an important part of the Super
Bowl and one of the most highly anticipated entertainment
events of the year," said NFL Commissioner Paul Tagliabue.
"We are pleased that a star like Janet Jackson will join
the roster of entertainers who have made the Super Bowl Halftime
so special."
Janet Jackson is a multiple Grammy and MTV Award-winning
performer, whose multi-platinum albums from "Control"
to "All For You" have sold more than 50 million
copies worldwide. A peerless live performer, her 1990 "Rhythm
Nation" tour remains the most successful debut concert
tour in history. Among her multitude of honors is the inaugural
MTVicon Award, which saluted her career achievements in 2001.
She will release a new album in Spring 2004.
This marks the second time MTV: Music Television
will produce a Super Bowl Halftime Show for the NFL. MTV produced
the show for Super Bowl XXXV, which aired on CBS in 2001 when
the Baltimore Ravens beat the New York Giants. More than 130
million Americans watched the game and halftime show, providing
CBS one of the most-watched nights in network television history.
The Super Bowl XXXV Halftime Show featured Aerosmith and *NSYNC
along with special guests Britney Spears, Nelly and Mary J.
Blige in front of 75,000 fans at Raymond James Stadium in
Tampa.
Look for the new book by Mark Sonder, Event
Entertainment and Production copyright 2004.
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 Janet
Jackson biography
She’s one of the true superstar elite, she teased us
with a taste of her new sound last year via the keynote song
in one of 2000’s biggest movies, and now Janet Jackson
is ready for the world again.
Here’s a sequence to make your mouth water. March: a
brand new Janet single. April: her first new album since 1997’s
multi-million-selling The Velvet Rope. July: the start of
a world tour, with the same spectacular production values
that have set the arena benchmark since her famous Rhythm
Nation debut tour of 1990.
April 23/24 sees the worldwide release of Janet’s new
album All For You, a tip of the hat to timeless soul and dance
grooves and a glorious celebration of her 1980’s roots.
The set was recorded at Flyte Tyme Studios in Minneapolis
with co-production by the mighty Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis,
her longtime songwriting and studio collaborators, and additional
production by hot name on the block Rockwilder. The album’s
melodic, upbeat and fresh sound is echoed by the title track,
due as a single in March.
 Concurrent
with her new music, Janet will be honoured at the inaugural
mtvICON show March 13 in recognition of her place as one of
the most influential and beloved tastemakers in contemporary
pop and R&B. The spectacular accompanying show will eloquently
demonstrate the impact that Janet has had not only on her
multi-million world-wide audience, but also on a generation
of fellow performers, as Destiny’s Child, Macy Gray,
OutKast and ‘N Sync head the bill paying tribute by covering
her songs. Janet herself will perform at the climax of the
show.
The new single, album and tour follow Janet’s world-wide
smash last summer with “Doesn’t Really Matter”
from the soundtrack of Nutty Professor 2, in which she starred
with Eddie Murphy and which took $175 million at the world-wide
box office. The song was an instant global hit, spending three
weeks at No.1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 in August and September
to take her total of US chart-toppers to nine, a run stretching
back to “When I Think Of You” in 1986.
“Doesn’t Really Matter” is included on All
For You, an album of upbeat soul flavours that overflows with
pure Janet joie de vivre and will also feature such songs
as “Someone To Call My Lover,” “New Beginning,”
“Come On Get Up,” “Trust A Try” and the
tantalising “When We Ooh.” It’ s the latest
landmark in an eclectic, audacious career that has touched
audiences in pop, rock, R&B and hip-hop without ever compromising.
Then, in the summer, Janet launches the long-anticipated
sequel to the Velvet Rope tour, which packed arenas and knocked
out audiences everywhere it went. The album itself produced
three top ten singles in the UK alone, all of them co-written
by Janet: the genre-busting “Got ‘Til It’s
Gone,” the platinum-selling “Together Again”
(which spent 19 weeks on the British singles chart) and “I
Get Lonely.”
That success took her world-wide career sales total to almost
60 million but it’s never been just about the numbers
for Janet Damita Jo Jackson, born May 16, 1966 in the Jackson
family hometown of Gary, Indiana. “My parents taught
us that you never give up,” she says, and it’s been
a personal coda since she made her stage debut at seven.
Janet went on to star in the CBS TV sitcom Good Times, and
more high-profile television work soon followed in Different
Strokes and Fame. There were two teenage albums, a self-titled
1982 set and Dream Street two years later, but it was 1986’s
Control that signaled a new day in her career. Travelling
from her Los Angles home to Minneapolis, she began the association
with Jam and Lewis that continues to this day, found herself
as a songwriter and reinvented herself as a person.
Control exploded showcasing Janet’s supple voice, warm
humor and feisty attitude in a series of indelible hit singles
and innovative videos shaped by Janet herself. Control was
something that Janet extended to her entire life, becoming
an astute businesswoman in the process. She makes the final
decisions regarding every aspect of her multi-faceted career.
1989 brought the watershed album Rhythm Nation 1814, a record
“reflecting real life and my real concerns,” as
he put it, wrapped up in a high-voltage funk-dance sound.
It spent four weeks at No.1 in America and, a few months later,
led to the Rhythm Nation World Tour 1990, which became the
most successful debut tour in history, watched by over two
million fans.
“ Rhythm Nation contained my views about what was going
on in the world and the problems we have trying to educate
kids,” she says. “The idea was to give them some
hope.” Janet remains a passionate spokeswoman on children’s,
civil and human rights, education and AIDS research. Indeed
last year, she received the Commitment To Life Award from
the AIDS Project Los Angeles.
In 1991, in her mid twenties, Jackson negotiated a multi-million
dollar record deal with Virgin, and soon after rekindling
her acting career in 1993 in John Singleton’s compelling
Poetic Justice, unveiled the spectacular Janet album, which
overflowed with contagious grooves such as “That’s
The Way Love Goes” (No.1 for an incredible eight weeks
in the US), “If,” “Again” and the sultry
ballad “Any Time Any Place,” which logged ten weeks
atop Billboard’s R&B chart. The album became her
third in a row to sell more than five million copies in America
alone.
In 1995 Janet joined brother Michael for the massive hit
single “Scream,” featuring a stunning glam sci-fi
video clip. The following year brought Janet’s first
retrospective, Janet Jackson 1986-1996 Design Of A Decade.
It offered up her 16th gold certified single “Runaway”
and another memorable video, in which she danced her way around
the globe. In 1997, The Velvet Rope took her audience closer
to Janet than ever before, as she bared her soul on the most
intimate record of her career.
In 2001, to borrow from her famous song titles, we’ve
missed her much, but she’s back to take her rhythm nation
on a new escapade, fuelled by a familiar passion. “The
one thing we all have in common is music,” says Janet,
“and music moves me.”
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