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Read this MJ Charity Fact…
On Christmas Day, 1972, in Los Angeles, California, the 14 year old singer and the Jackson 5, dressed as Santas, make their appearance at a foundation, to visit and offer presents – on behalf of their record company, Motown – to 700 underprivileged children. During that season, the Jackson 5 perform some Christmas songs during a benefit concert at the “Foundation for the Junior Blind” for 1000 visually impaired children.
So MJtheBest.com did some investigating…
We found an article in Ebony Jnr where they write an article/interview on the Jackson 5. J5 talk about the above charity event. Read Below…
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This is an expert from the middle of the article… “Anyone who knows about The Jackson Five should know that the popular singing group sells many records and therefore, earns large sums of money. The brothers could easily afford to show their love for family and friends at Christmastime by spending their money on expensive gifts. But The Jackson Five know well enough that money can not buy friends. They also know that a warm and friendly smile can often better express their love for others than an expensive gift. Each of the Jackson brothers is very menoly and engoys meeting their fans. They enjoy doing benefit shows.”
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Monday Nov. 24, 1997, includes photographs by Harry Benson of Jackson feeding his son and changing his diapers. (AP Photo/LIFE, Harry Benson)
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On Her Working Childhood
“My parents have close to three acres at home in Encino (Calif.), and tons of trees in their yard,” Janet tells me. “We children had lots of chores. On Saturday morning, we’d get up and rake the entire yard. Then we’d take out the garbage. When my brothers were on the road, I’d be the one taking out the garbage because my sister La Toya would say to me, ‘Mother wants you to do this.’”
Janet is the youngest of the nine Jackson siblings.
“I’d think, ‘I’m sure doing a lot of the chores all by myself,’” she continues. “When I’d ask Mother, ‘Do you want me to do this myself?’ She’d go, ‘No, baby, I said for both you and La Toya to do it.’ La Toya was putting all her chores on me!”
“But I’m thankful for all the chores we had to do around the house,” she says. “I think that’s one of the things that helped us stay grounded. As a child, I had to get up early for school or work. I’d get ready by myself. I’d set my alarm to wake me up very early in the morning, and be off to work, the family driver driving me every morning. I did it alone, my parents never coming in to wake me up. By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it wasn’t a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.”
“After school, I’d come home and get in the kitchen and cook up a meal for myself,” she boasts. “Because I was too little to reach the oven or the stove, I’d stand on top of a swivel chair, cut up onions, garlic, butter, chicken or a little steak and put it in foil and make it. We children worked and still went to school. Mother made sure we still had a little playtime.”
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Parage Magazine
“I was always reaching out for love,” Janet Jackson says. “I kept searching for it, seeking it. Infatuation, lust—that stuff only lasts so long. You can get that from anybody. But true love is supposed to be forever.”
Jackson, 41, tells me this as we sit cozily on a couch in New York City, where she owns an elegant, art-filled apartment overlooking Manhattan’s Central Park. She has spent most of today at a midtown recording studio doing final touch-ups on Discipline, her new album, to be released Feb. 24.
“I love my music and my work,” she confides in her breathy, bedroom voice, “but my friends will tell you that the one thing I’ve always wanted more than anything else is real love.” She smiles and pets one of her three fat bulldogs, Rocky, who lies drooling on her lap.
Janet, petite and pretty, is wearing a sweater over several shirts, a scarf, loose track pants and a large, wool newsboy cap. Although we are sitting in an overheated room, she is so afraid of catching cold that she is bundled up like a schoolgirl about to walk through deep snow. She looks nothing like one of America’s richest women, a gifted entertainer who has sold more than 100 million records. She also has acted on TV (Good Times, Fame) and in movies. Currently, she is the most successful member of the famous Jackson family, her career now eclipsing her brother Michael’s fading star.
Her outsized success, she says, is due to her family’s work ethic.
“I was introduced to discipline at a young age,” she explains. “My parents were very strict, especially my father.” Joseph Jackson, 78, a former steelworker and sometime guitarist, was a harsh, controlling parent who whipped the musical talents of his nine obedient children into a family fortune. He put Janet, the youngest, to work at age 7 in the family’s Las Vegas stage act.
“I really wanted to be a jockey,” she says. “I loved being on top of this huge, powerful animal. I thought I could see the edge of the universe. But when I was 9, my father said, ‘You should sing.’ I told him I didn’t want to. He said, ‘You’re going to sing.’ So that’s what I did.”
Joe Jackson – Her Father’s Out-of-Wedlock-Child
Around the same time, Joseph had an out-of-wedlock child with a fan of the Jackson 5. Five years later, he had another affair with an employee of his sons’ record label, Motown. His infidelities nearly ended his marriage and deeply affected Janet.
“Besides my mother’s beauty and her smarts, what I always wanted was her strength,” says Janet, who is very close to her mother, Katherine, 77, a devout Jehovah’s Witness. “It’s a very cold world, and to have gone through what she has had to experience, from having polio as a child to those things with my brother Michael, and then for my father to have had another child!” Janet pauses, angry. “I’ve been cheated on a lot,” she goes on, heatedly. “I know what that feels like and how that hurts the heart. But, I mean, to give us a half-sister. I can’t even fathom what that’s like for Mother. For her to stay with my father all these years and never abandon her kids, that’s true love.”
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Original name Anna-Lou Leibovitz.
Photographer. Born Anna-Lou Leibovitz, on October 2, 1949, in Westbury, Connecticut. She was one of the six children born to Sam, an Air Force lieutenant, and Marilyn Leibovitz, a modern dance instructor. In 1967, Leibovitz enrolled at the San Francisco Art Institute, where (although initially studying painting) she developed a love for photography.
After living briefly on an Israeli kibbutz, Leibovitz returned to the U.S., in 1970, and applied for a job with the start-up rock music magazine Rolling Stone. Impressed with Leibovitz’s portfolio, editor Jann Wenner offered her a job as a staff photographer. Within two years, the 23-year-old Leibovitz was promoted to chief photographer—a title she would hold for the next 10 years. Her position with the magazine afforded her the opportunity to accompany the Rolling Stones band on their 1975 international tour. Article Source alafoto.com
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Annie Leibovitz
First Family Official Family Portrait
Angelina Jolie. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz
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STORY ONE from the New York Post
Article Link: www.nypost.com
Article Date: October 14, 2009
Article Headline: Jacko kids show(NOTE to READERS: When will these people stop calling MJ ‘Jacko’! It is so disrespectful)
Michael wanted privacy for his children. HELLO! They wore MASKS!
The Jackson Family is warring over the inclusion of Michael Jackson’s three children in an upcoming A&E reality show about the clan.
“The Jacksons: A Family Dynasty” is tentatively scheduled to air in December and will include Prince, Paris and Blanket Jackson in the cast, according to a report in Us magazine.
While Janet Jackson is OK with bringing the kids into the show, Jacko’s oldest sibling, Rebbie, 59 — who refuses to be in the show — “feels Michael would spin in his grave if he knew his kids would be on the show,” according to the report.
Michael Jackson, who died June 25 at the of 50, was hugely protective of Prince, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7, who’s also called “Blanket.” On the rare occasions they ventured out in public, he made the kids wear masks to protect their identities from photographers and gawkers.
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