Jermaine Jackson
from Gary, IN
December 11, 1954 (age 70)
Biography
The lone Jackson family member to stay with Motown while the other brothers split for CBS/Epic (he was then married to Berry Gordy's daughter Hazel), Jermaine enjoyed a artistically diffident career during the '70s at Motown, surfacing with an occasional hit like a remake of Daddy's Home (1972) and Let's Be Young Tonight (1975). Jermaine got a badly needed shot in the arm from Stevie Wonder, who wrote and produced Let's Get Serious, a Top Ten pop and soul dance hit that came around the time of brother Michael's pop ascendancy. After scoring a Top 20 pop hit in 1982 with the infectious Let Me Tickle Your Fancy, Jermaine left Motown in 1983 for Arista Records, where he scored a pair of hits in 1984 with Do What You Do and the scintillating dance number Dynamite. Subsequently, he re-joined the Jacksons in time for their ill-fated Victory tour in 1984. Jackson has recorded sporadically since, though he generated controversy in 1991 when Word to the Badd, a thinly veiled attack on his brother Michael, was leaked out to urban music stations. ~ John Lowe, Rovi
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