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Janet Jackson has fairly the household tree.
In an interview with Scott Mills on BBC Sounds, Jackson was requested if it was true that she is expounded to a different legendary singer, Stevie Marvel.
“He’s our cousin,” Jackson mentioned as Mills expressed shock. “Not lots of people know that. He’s our cousin on my mom’s aspect.”
However that wasn’t all.
Jackson added, “So is Tracy Chapman. So is Samuel L. Jackson.”
Mills was all of us as his thoughts was blown. He acquired Jackson to additional affirm that Marvel, Chapman and Jackson are certainly all cousins.
She even joked that Samuel L. Jackson, famed for his roles in movies in “Pulp Fiction,” “Captain Marvel” and “Snakes on a Aircraft,” will not be one among her brothers regardless of their shared final identify.
Janet Jackson is at present on a tour which celebrates her many years of hits. And he or she’s not the one Jackson member of the family who’s driving the wave of success.
Chapman, who’s well-known for being intensely personal, has been having fun with a little bit of a profession revival, due to nation artist Luke Combs overlaying her hit 1988 single “Quick Automobile.”
That cowl reaching No. 1 on the Nation Airplay chart final yr made Chapman the primary Black girl to prime the chart for the reason that chart got here into existence in 1990.
She and Combs earned a standing ovation for his or her efficiency in February at the Grammys.
CNN has reached out to representatives for Marvel, Chapman and Samuel L. Jackson for remark.