Celebrating Janet’s Career and Legacy on IRMIX Radio

I have been celebrating Janet’s career and legacy since the age of three years old. I have always loved Janet’s showmanship it has always inspired me in one form or another since then. Either through my own dance, or entertaining from such a young age. If you ask anyone in my family they will tell you. This will more than likely turn into a series of articles about Janet because the love for her is just that deep. As Janet is preparing to take the stage tonight in Hollywood, Florida for the Together Again tour, I want to take the time to reminisce. 

When I started my career in entertainment nearly 36 years ago as the youngest pre-teen producer and television host on Continental Cablevision’s public access channel 37, in Lansing, MI, I had always integrated Janet Jackson into my programming. 

I need to go back a little further than that. It was summer and back in the day there were not as many options as there are now to watch what you wanted on television. For me, it was Wonder Woman and the Jackson Family Variety Show. 

I believe the first time that I ever saw Janet perform was with her brother Randy on their variety show as Pinky Tuscadero alongside her other brothers and sisters. I loved her performance, and I wanted to see more of her. 

As I am sitting here writing this, I am flooded with good memories about buying my first Janet album, the first one that I ever bought was Dream Street. 

When I tell you that I worked for everything I ever got, it is the truth I did. I mowed lawns, shoveled snow, and did whatever I needed to do to buy what I wanted. It was no different than buying a Janet album at such a young age.

My cousin Lisa asked to borrow the Dream Street album and against my better judgment, I did let her borrow it. The thing is, she held onto it for so long that I had to borrow it back. That was the absolute last time that I ever let someone borrow music from me.