For other people named Janet Jackson, see Janet Jackson (disambiguation).
Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an African-American singer-songwriter, dancer, actress, and the youngest child of the famed Jackson music family. She is the sister of pop icon Michael Jackson. Breaking away from the shadows of her siblings, Jackson now ranks as the ninth most successful artist in the history of rock and roll, and is the youngest artist in the top ten of that group, according to Billboard magazine in 2004, and has gone to sell over 130 million albums and singles worldwide.