CULTURETECHLENSLa Toya Jackson
VERIFIED evidence grade — build store (JSON graph)
Combined Graph record U-07002 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5730.
La Toya Jackson, born La Toya Yvonne Jackson on 29 May 1956 at St Mary's Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana, is an American singer and television personality, the fifth of the ten Jackson children. She first appeared on the family's CBS variety show The Jacksons (1976–77) and became the first female Jackson sibling to pursue a solo recording career, debuting with La Toya Jackson (1980) on Polydor. Her breakthrough album Heart Don't Lie (1984) produced her highest-charting US single, the title duet with Howard Hewett, which peaked at No. 56 on the Hot 100. She sang on USA for Africa's "We Are the World" (1985) and released nine studio albums over fifteen years. Her later career spans a bestselling 1991 autobiography, the OWN series Life with La Toya (2013–14), and reality formats including Celebrity Apprentice and The Masked Singer.
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La Toya Jackson, born La Toya Yvonne Jackson on 29 May 1956 at St Mary's Mercy Hospital in Gary, Indiana, is an American singer and television personality, the fifth of the ten Jackson children. She first appeared on the family's CBS variety show The Jacksons (1976–77) and became the first female Jackson sibling to pursue a solo recording career, debuting with La Toya Jackson (1980) on Polydor.
The record
- Also known as: La Toya Yvonne Jackson, LaToya Jackson
Notes
Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 1 — 747 Program, Wave 7; first packet at the founder's 40-record size). Gate A (2026-10-16): no La Toya Jackson entity in the live graph at 3,443 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5730 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 203 (R&B Singers list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure (Gary, Indiana). Vital status: LIVING — performed intimate Q&A evenings at Catalina Jazz Club, Los Angeles, 6 June 2025. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): "Heart Don't Lie" (1984, duet with Howard Hewett) peaked at No. 56 on the Billboard Hot 100, her highest US charting single; debut album peaked No. 116 Billboard 200 / No. 26 R&B Albums — SoulTracks, accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (candidate: Wikimedia Commons and label/press photography of this subject exists; no file page was read at file-page level in this pass, so no image is cleared — CTL-PHOTO-001; a CTL-created graphic is the standing alternative); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5730-la-toya-jackson.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject; the three catalog string-hits for "Ne-Yo" resolve to Nina Simone and John Coltrane rows, not Ne-Yo billings); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio; the subject's recordings are third-party copyrighted material). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings are third-party )
Relationships
- Michael Jackson — related to
La Toya Jackson is the sister of Michael Jackson — the fifth and sixth children respectively of the Gary, Indiana Jackson family.
Referenced by
- Tito Jackson — related to → this record
Sources
- Wikipedia, "La Toya Jackson" — born 29 May 1956, Gary, Indiana; fifth of ten children; Polydor debut (1980); nine studio albums; Life with La Toya — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Toya_Jackson (build store)
- SoulTracks artist biography — "Heart Don't Lie" peaked No. 56 Hot 100 / No. 29 Hot Black Singles; debut details — http://soultracks.com/artist/latoya-jackson/ (primary source · build store)
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