Janet Jackson comes from one of the well-known households in pop music. However in an interview with BBC Radio 2’s Scott Mills on the Zoe Ball Breakfast Present, the singer revealed that along with being the little sister of late pop famous person Michael Jackson and musical siblings Marlon, LaToya, Randy, Jermaine, Rebbie, Jackie and Tito, she additionally has some critically A-list cousins on her household tree.
“Are you associated to Stevie?” Mills requested Jackson of the guy Motown legend Stevie Surprise earlier than cueing up Surprise’s “Do I Do” as a teaser. “He’s our cousin,” Jackson stated. “Not lots of people know that. He’s our cousin on our mom’s facet.” Having correctly blown Mills’ thoughts, Jackson then casually famous that four-time Grammy winner Tracy Chapman can be a cousin and “so is Samuel L. Jackson,” although she pressured that regardless of their shared final identify “he’s not my brother.”
Whereas it’s not clear what the precise household relations are — and Jackson didn’t elaborate — there are some household ties we all know of. Surprise wrote songs for Jermaine (“Let’s Get Severe”) and recorded two duets with Michael (“Simply Good Buddies” and “Get It”) and he carried out at Michael’s 2009 memorial service. The Jackson 5 and Surprise had been each signed to Motown Information within the Nineteen Sixties and Seventies and in 2008 Janet was one of many presenters at Surprise’s NAACP Picture Awards Corridor of Fame ceremony.
Jackson simply completed the North American run of her Collectively Once more Tour and gearing up for her fall European swing, which can kick off in Paris at Accor Enviornment on Sept. 25 and maintain her one the street by way of an Oct. 13 gig at OVO Hydro in Glasgow.
Watch Jackson’s household tree revelation under.
