Janet Jackson welcomed her new and first baby boy Eissa  into the world  at age 50 on Tuesday. Janeth Jackson who is pop-star and sister of the late pop star Michael Jackson got married with a Qatar businessman known as Wissam Al mana. Janet confirmed her pregnancy in October but had reportedly been plagued with bad morning sickness.
A source shared: "Janet is super excited. She's doing great. Janet feels really strong and is just so excited for the baby to come. She feels like this is one of the best things ever to happen to her.
Janeth Jackson has been keeping her life secret since she got married with tycoon Wissam Al manna

Who is Janet Jackson

Janet Damita Jo Jackson (born May 16, 1966) is an American singer, songwriter, dancer and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 30 years. The youngest child of the Jackson family, she began her career with the variety television series The Jacksons in 1976 and went on to appear in other television shows throughout the 1970s and early 1980s, including Good Times and Fame.

In 1991 she signed the first of two record-breaking, multimillion-dollar contracts with Virgin Records, establishing her as one of the highest paid artists in the industry. Her debut album under the label, Janet (1993), saw her develop a public image as a sex symbol as she began to explore sexuality in her work. That same year, she appeared in her first starring film role in Poetic Justice; since then she has continued to act in feature films. By the end of the 1990s, she was named the second most successful recording artist of the decade. The release of her seventh studio album All for You (2001) coincided with a celebration of her impact on popular music as the inaugural MTV Icon. After parting ways with Virgin she released her tenth studio album Discipline (2008), her first and only album with Island Records. In 2015 she partnered with BMG Rights Management to launch her own record label, Rhythm Nation and released her eleventh studio album Unbreakable the same year.

 The youngest sister of the "precious Jackson clan", Janet Jackson has striven to distance her professional career from that of her older brother Michael and the rest of the Jackson family. Steve Dollar of Newsday wrote that "[s]he projects that home girl-next-door quality that belies her place as the youngest sibling in a family whose inner and outer lives have been as poked at, gossiped about, docudramatized and hard-copied as the Kennedys." Phillip McCarthy of The Sydney Morning Herald noted that throughout her recording career, one of her common conditions for interviewers has been that there would be no mention of Michael. Joshua Klein wrote, "[f]or the first half of her recording career, Janet Jackson sounded like an artist with something to prove.

 
Stories of lost love, last wishes and multimillion-pound fortunes are contained in the wills stored in a secure facility in the West Midlands.
Alongside those of ordinary men and women sits the will of Diana, Princess of Wales, and countless short declarations from soldiers who were killed in the First and Second World Wars.
More than 41 million wills – dating back to 1858 – are kept inside the building in a suburb of Birmingham, with almost 5,000 new ones coming in each week.

Iron Mountain, which runs the facility and digitises the wills for HM Courts and Tribunals Service, said it gets up to 13,000 requests a month from people wanting digital copies of wills for a range of reasons.

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Will account manager Dee-Ann Craddock said: “From the notable and notorious, anyone who leaves a will in England or Wales will have their will stored in the archive. And, as a will is a public record, anyone can order a will from the online portal. So we receive between 12,000 and 13,000 requests per month from all sorts of people, including relatives of the deceased, historians, and amateur genealogists.”

The firm began making the wills available in digital form two years ago, and said there has been a steady interest since from people ordering documents simply by clicking online.
One such will belongs to Philip Woollatt, a lieutenant who died in the Battle of the Somme. Alongside his will was a notebook in which the 21-year-old told how a woman he loved had written to him to say she was getting married to someone else. The pocketbook was damaged by a bullet-hole.

Craddock said: “It’s impossible not to be impressed by the bravery of the young men who gave up their lives to fight for their country.”
She said making digital copies available will ensure the archive is available for people in years to come to delve back into the history of their ancestors.
She added: “Many of the documents are fragile because of their age. Once digitised the wills no longer need to be handled, which helps preserve the documents for future generations.”
His is one of an archive of 278,000 digitised First World War wills.

 
Dick Clark Productions is hitting back against Mariah Carey’s claim it sabotaged her live performance on its New Year’s Rockin’ Eve special.
Mariah’s disaster during the annual New Year’s Eve TV special in Times Square made international headlines: The superstar vocally stumbled through her short set, failing to sing for most of it despite a pre-recorded track of her songs playing in the background.
She was visibly upset during the performance and afterwards tweeted “shit happens”.

Her representative Nicole Perna blamed technical difficulties, and in an interview with Billboard she said Dick Clark Productions hampered Mariah’s performance.

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“She was not winging this moment and took it very seriously,” Nicole told Billboard. “A shame that production set her up to fail.”
Nicole said Mariah’s earpiece wasn’t working and she flagged the issue to the production team but was told it would be OK when she got on stage.
“However, that was not the case, and they were again told that her earpiece was not working,” Nicole said. “Instead of endeavouring to fix the issue so that Mariah could perform, they went live.”

In a statement released on Sunday, the production company called such claims “absurd.”
“As the premier producer of live television events for nearly 50 years, we pride ourselves on our reputation and long-standing relationships with artists,” it said.

“To suggest that dcp (Dick Clark Productions), as producer of music shows including the American Music Awards, Billboard Music Awards, New Year’s Rockin’ Eve and Academy of Country Music Awards, would ever intentionally compromise the success of any artist is defamatory, outrageous and frankly absurd.”
It said that in “very rare instances” there are technical errors that can occur with live television. It said an initial investigation, however, indicated it had no involvement in the challenges associated with Carey’s performance.
“We want to be clear that we have the utmost respect for Ms. Carey as an artist and acknowledge her tremendous accomplishments in the industry,” it said.

A person familiar with the production of the show who asked for anonymity to speak publicly about the incident said all of the other performers, including Gloria Estefan, rehearsed onsite for their performances and Mariah was there but had a stand-in for her rehearsal, atypical for the show’s performers.
The person said all of the monitors were working and no technical problems were found.
Ironically, Mariah was Dick Clark Productions’ first live performer for the broadcast in 2005, when it went off without any such problems.

 
While the rest of us count down the minutes until it's over, Dwayne Johnson, 44, has a lot to be proud of this year — like being the highest paid actor and People's "Sexiest Man Alive," all while starring in countless box office hits.
And his colleagues aren't surprised.
"He's incredible. He brings this energy with him that is so focused, so professional, so funny," says director Seth Gordon, who's worked with Johnson on the upcoming film "Baywatch." "(He) brings out the best in those around him."

It's hard to believe The Rock didn't start his professional career as an actor. He cut his teeth on celebrity fame as a WWE champ in the late '90s and early 2000s.
"It is no surprise he's become one of Hollywood's most sought-after stars given his unique ability to captivate audiences worldwide while remaining humble and gracious," the WWE said in a statement.
Johnson lent his voice (including his singing one) as the Demigod Maui in “Moana” — Disney’s breakout animated film that debuted in November — and is starring in several remakes on deck, including "Fast 8," "Baywatch" and "Jumanji."
But perhaps his sweetest role was being a mentor to 15-year-old "Moana" co-star Auli'i Cravalho, who called the actor "a tremendous role model."

"Dwayne is an incredible guy; so determined and so kind," Cravalho said in a statement to the Daily News."To anyone wanting to succeed, Dwayne gives advice [TO ]work hard for what you want, and never stop working."
Johnson will also star as Black Adam alongside Superman played by Henry Cavill in the film "Shazam!" due out in 2019. He is also working on "Rampage" due out in 2018, and the recently announced flicks "Skyscraper” and "Doc Savage.”
While filming "Moana" in Hawaii, Johnson surprised children and military fans with "Rock the Troops," an event at Pearl Harbor military base to salute all the men and women serving our country.

"My respect for our troops is boundless," Johnson said at the time.
It showed when he reunited a military family on Jimmy Fallon's "Tonight Show" bringing viewers — and even Fallon — to tears.
The Rock wouldn't be the most desirable actor in Hollywood without the paycheck to prove it.
Forbes named Johnson its highest paid actor of 2016 — for the second time in a row, but that doesn't stop him from recalling the days he had just $7 to his name.
Now, Forbes listed him as taking home a whopping $64.5 million between June 2015 and June 2016.
 t's also been a big year for the Rock's production company, which will put out the much anticipated "Baywatch" movie spinoff.
The film, which will hit theaters in May 2017, also stars Zac Efron, Priyanka Chopra, Alexandra Daddario and Kelly Rohbach.
The company, Seven Bucks Production, co-founded with ex-wife Dany Garcia, is the brains behind the film.
"I wouldn’t have done it without him," director Seth Gordon told The News. "There’s something so great about him in that role — it’s just perfect."
Not only does The Rock have a leading role — but he and Garcia are also the producers.

The hunky star is the actual Sexiest Man ALIVE, according to People.
But he also broke boundaries by being the first man of color given the honor since Denzel Washington topped the list back in 1996.
"Wow, we've pretty much reached the pinnacle," he joked with People once learning of the honor. "I'm not quite too sure where we go from here. I've done it all, this is it."
But it certainly isn't it for the star. There will be a lot more of The Rock in 2017.
Hey, we might even see him run for President in 2020 — he's even said he hasn't ruled it out.
"It would be a great opportunity to help people, so it's possible," he told Vanity Fair this November.

 

Singer Trey Songz has been charged with aggravated assault and assaulting a police officer after authorities said he threw microphones and speakers from the stage during a performance at Detroit's Joe Louis Arena.

The Wayne County prosecutor's office says the 32-year-old Songz, whose real name is Tremaine Neverson, was arraigned Thursday.

Songz, of Virginia, was arrested after the incident Wednesday night.

Police spokesman Officer Dan Donakowski says Songz became "upset and belligerent" after he was told to end his concert and leave the stage at 11:30 p.m.

Prosecutors say someone was struck in the head by an object and an officer was punched.

Songz' next court date is Jan. 5. Bond is set at $2,500.

The Detroit News reports that Chris Brown and Lil Yachty also performed at the concert.

 
George Michael's 1987 solo debut album Faith was a bid for seriousness following his career as part of the boy band duo Wham! – and it worked. Six consecutive hit singles rewarded pop fans' faith. But on a different level, it also restored faith.

The best of the pop icon's hits, duets and reinventions

Look at the album cover, the first of several memorable George Michael icons. The jewelry hanging from his left ear was code. Strategically measured above the fashionably-trimmed scruffy beard, it conveyed audacity and conscience, perfecting Madonna's quasi-religious pop antics. Yet Michael's male rebellion produced a shock all its own: Here was a rebel whose spiritual belief rushed him (perhaps guiltily) beyond the material girl's commercial siren symbolism into sexual mystique.
From that point, Michael used the album to erect a series of carefully crafted pop statements that were also personal career manifestos. Track three, "Father Figure," is the most impressive and the most enduring of Faith's many hit singles that made Michael a competing force during the high-pressure era of Michael and Janet Jackson blockbusters. Its blend of pop-gospel balladry and R&B sensuality made Michael a crossover artist of similar huge significance – attracting racially diverse listeners among Eighties radio and music video's ever-expanding audience.
That earring symbolism and the pop eccentricity it entailed, chanced one of the deepest – queerest – dares of all the fops and bohemians pouring out of England, New York, Los Angeles and Minneapolis bohemias. These AIDS-era comrades were epitomized by the British pop duos from Pet Shop Boys, Erasure to the Communards whose partnerships depicted a vanguard gay solidarity. But by breaking out on his own, Michael was a rogue among renegades. But he was a romantic rogue, a recording industry megahustler with Motown in his heart. In "Father Figure," he revealed his special knowledge of pop music as the language of seduction.
The track starts with confession: "That's all I wanted/Something special, something sacred." In the hard-nosed rap songs popular in the late 1980s, this was known as "booty-begging" music. (At that time, only 16-year-old L.L. Cool J dared to express romance in hip-hop.) But Michael, schooled in Stevie Wonder as well as Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross and Bobby Womack understood what his peers Michael Jackson and Prince knew about winning over listeners, including those in the increasingly visible and demoralized gay subculture. In this context, "booty-begging" spoke subtly to gay male sexual appeal, even as R&B's legions of female fans have long understood the parameters of interpersonal erotic entreaties. Certain spoken codes and impassioned gestures – straight as well as gay – are consistent with the language sung in "Father Figure."

Michael's gift was to make records as language, what Roland Barthes called "a lover's discourse." His "I Want Your Sex" was pure libido; "Father Figure" was impure sensitivity – explicit without being raunchy: "For just one moment/To be bold and naked/At your side."
It's forward – a verbalized pass – but the phrase "bold and naked" was also political. The cunning to express physical longing as a social imperative shows sophistication. In this song George Michael, the gay pop artist, created a worthy parallel to the ultra-sophistication of Pet Shop Boys and Muddy Waters. (His best Wham! songs, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go" and "Careless Whisper" were imagined in a lighter mode like that of the period's other great gay pop duo Erasure.)
With this interpersonal communication, Michael articulates the spiritual desire that is rarely admitted within gay discourse. It shows an ability to translate hidden, or once-forbidden, passion into widely relatable terms. In Michael-the-suitor's drama of need and longing, he beseeches the object of his affection, auguring the crucial discussions, the self-examination and negotiations, that inhabitants of gay subculture had to hold among themselves (conversations that, of necessity, preceded the eventual popular understanding of the marriage equality topic.)
"Father Figure" sets a human precedent more than it argues a social issue. What makes it an especially fine work of pop art is to be found when Michael's chorus leaps to the song title's great, almost taboo revelation:
I will be your father figure (Oh baby)Put your tiny hand in mine
(I'd love to)I will be your preacher teacher (Be your daddy)Anything you have in mind (It would make me)I will be your father figure
(Very happy)I have had enough of crime
(Please let me)I will be the one who loves you'Til the end of time
Every time I hear this quite stunning refrain, I realize the only thing preventing it from becoming the new traditional wedding song of the millennium is its sex-pirate vision of love and fidelity. It's too knowing for virginal wedding night nuptials. Michael wrote lyrics that insinuate the complicity of intimates. The father-figure image alludes to the frankly sexual consent of role-playing partners as enjoyed between themselves. Each verse progresses in confidentiality, tenderness, affection. It may seem to go against the rules of equality as set out by political correctness but perhaps only adult experience can teach a listener to respect the sense of sexual and emotional play that Michael vouchsafes – especially in his call-and-response catchphrase "I'll be your daddy."
"Father Figure" is not incestuous, nor is it a pro-patriarchy song, but it certainly isn't against the thrilling dynamic of power relations that exist "When 2 R in love" (to quote Prince's coital euphemism).
Neither is the song about inappropriate age relations. Rather, Michael's "Put your tiny hand in mine" rings like a Sadean nursery rhyme. It absolutely defies Wham!-era bubble-gum "innocence" which makes it a pop song for adults. Its most popular line is one that is die-hard romantics often mishear as "I have had enough of crying." Of course a song as great as this thrives on ambiguity, but Michael's impetus behind Faith was to transcend facile romanticism, which explains the true lyric "I have had enough of crime." As a mature gay man sensitive to the passion of AIDS activism and ACT-UP's creed to unleash power against homophobic restrictions, he was aware of his obligation to account for romance, even gay boundering, somewhat politically. Though it's just one line, the anthemic cry surpasses the pent-up anger of Bronski Beat's blatant pro-gay protest song "Smalltown Boy."

Because Michael was indeed a romantic pop star, he sold "Father Figure" through a music video that employed general-audience appeal by emulating a Hollywood melodrama. Going from color to black-and-white, Michael, co-directing with Andy Morahan, evoked Scorsese's Taxi Driver, starring himself in lurid color as a lonely, lovesick cabbie out on the street cruising – pursuing an aloof supermodel (real-life supermodel Tania Coleridge doing cinema verite). Shifting to black-and-white stylization, Michael and Morahan then copied Woody Allen's Manhattan as the fantasy romance intensified. Indulging these heterosexual prototypes before Michael came out to the media is no different from the command of popular language evident in his songwriting. The video's hetero stunt was intended to appease timid MTV-ers not ready for same-sex action, yet it confirmed the universality of "Father Figure" and its insider's romantic knowledge.
This video's commercial logic (note Coleridge's broad-shouldered androgynous strut during the video's runway scene) showed Michael's concern with fighting the norms of pop music image-marketing. It anticipated the tactic he chose for his follow-up album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 and the magnificent dance track "Freedom '90." That song's still-striking David Fincher-directed music video was part of Michael's misguided "ascetic aesthetic" decision to no longer "shake his ass" on camera and stay off screen. A host of female supermodels – Naomi Campbell, Linda Evangelista, Cindy Crawford, Tatjana Patitz, Christy Turlington – made worthy stand-ins for the eyelash-fluttering gay icon. Like the "Father Figure" music video, it was Drag in Reverse – which might have been a better title than Listen Without Prejudice to describe the goal of Michael's pop seduction.
The personal rebellion that was exposed in the latter, unsettled years of Michael's public life can be felt in every aspect of "Father Figure" where the gospel melody veiled a blues music essence – what was secretly his bawdy gay desire and travail. Dig that cross hanging from his ear. With his best song and performance, George Michael transformed pop music language and found personal faith, private realism, in a romantic ideal.