Janet Jackson reflects on brother Michael Jackson's death – Music News


Janet Jackson shared an emotional memory of her brother Michael Jackson, who died while on tour.

The 58-year-old Got Till It's Gone star is the sister of Bad singer Michael, who died in 2009 at the age of 50.

Janet is currently on her “Together Again” world tour, and fans got to see her perform her 1995 single “Scream,” a duet with Michael Jackson, set to video footage of the late musician.

Janet told the BBC it was emotional “hearing his stories and seeing him and thinking about us every night”.

Janet, who co-wrote the hit with her brother in their New York apartment, recalls, “So I get to relive that whole journey and hear him sing and remember what he was going through at that time, and me just being his sister, always there for him and supporting him. That's always been my role.”

The song was the lead single from Michael's ninth album, HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I, released in 1995, and is also included on Janet's 2009 greatest hits album, Number Ones.

The song was written in response to frenzied speculation about Michael's personal life, which had been dogged by reports of increasingly erratic behavior in the mid-1990s, from sleeping in an oxygen chamber to buying a pet chimpanzee named Bubbles.

In the 1990s, Michael came under intense scrutiny over his relationships with boys and in 1993 he was accused of sexual abuse, but the charges were settled out of court.

He was charged again in 2005 but acquitted in court, but further allegations emerged after his death in 2009.

Janet's tour arrives in the UK in September, with shows in London, Birmingham and Manchester, before heading to Glasgow the following month.



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