LaToya Jackson

LaToya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956 in Gary, Indiana) is the fifth child of the hugely successful Jackson music family. She is the sister of Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson.

2001 and After

Jackson did not have any professional accomplishments between 1996 and 2002; she claims that she took this professional absence voluntarily, though many would speculate that prior behaviour had decimated her career to the point of no return.

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In 2001 she started to work on a new album titled "Startin' Over". She started to return into the spotlight in the year 2002, when she returned with a tell-all interview on Larry King, where she first made public comment about her alleged situation with Gordon.

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The first single, "Just Wanna Dance", was released to radios under the stage name "Toy" in the summer of 2003, a decision Jackson claimed was made to give the song a chance without association to her sullied image. The album's second single, "Free the World", reached #24 on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart.

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Her new album "Startin' Over" has been postponed for three years now. Jackson claimed the album would be out in Summer 2002. Then she stated it would be out in the Summer of 2003. The latest scheduled release date by her record label Bungalow Records now is Summer 2006, although 2 singles were already launched to clubs in 2003 - 3 years prior to the album's release, which again proves that Jackson's unprofessional career choices in the past were probably not all her management's faults.

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