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Джанет Джексон (англ. Janet Damita Jo Jackson род. 16 мая 1966 г. в Гэри, штат Индиана, США). - американская певица, автор песен, продюсер, танцовщица, актриса и поп-икона. Обладательница пяти премий "Грэмми", суммарный тираж её записей составляет более 100 миллионов копий. По данным американской ассоциации звукозаписывающих компаний она занимает 11 место в списке самых продаваемых исполнительниц США.
Джанет Джексон родилась в американском городе Гэри (штат Индиана), став младшей из девяти детей Кэтрин Эстер (урождённой Скрузе) и Джозефа Уолтера Джексона. Семья Джексонов принадлежала классу мелкой буржуазии и являлась последователями секты Свидетелей Иеговы. Джексон утверждала, что несмотря на то что выросла в семье...
Janet Kay, was born Janet Kay Bogle (the first of 6 children) in London to Jamaican parents, Clifton and Monica Bogle. Janet is a descendant of the Jamaican National Hero the Rt Excellent Deacon Paul Bogle.
As a sixties child, Janet was exposed to the singing greats, especially those from the Tamla Motown stable and as a result of the exposure and inspiration, Janet's love for singing was born.
In 1977, whilst in Secretarial College, Janet was invited by her school friend Sonia Ferguson (who recorded a cover version of Smokey Robinson's 'Oh Baby Baby' in the late 70's) to...
Dame Janet Baker (born August 21, 1933) is an English mezzo-soprano best known as an opera, concert, and lieder singer. She was particularly closely associated with baroque and early Italian opera and the works of Benjamin Britten. During her career, which spanned from the 1950s to the 1980s, she was considered an outstanding singing actress and widely admired for her dramatic intensity, perhaps best represented in her famous portrayal as Dido, the tragic heroine of Hector Berlioz's magnum opus 'Les Troyens'. As a concert performer, Baker was noted for her interpretations of Gustav Mahler and Edgar Elgar.
Early life:
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Grammy-nominee Janet Lawson, born Janet Polun on November 13 , 1940, in Baltimore, Maryland, is a jazz singer and educator. Born into a family of professional musicians, as a child she performed on the radio and regional television. She holds adjunct professorships at New York University, the New School and at City College, N.Y., and currently lives in New York City.
She has worked with Duke Ellington, Bob Dorough, Tommy Flanagan, Ron Carter, Barry Harris, Milt Hinton, Dave Liebman, Joe Newman, Rufus Reid, Barney Kessel, Clark Terry, Ed Thigpen, Cedar Walton and the Art Farmer Quartet. She was soprano soloist...
