{"id":270333,"date":"2019-03-30T09:27:42","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:27:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1028286"},"modified":"2019-03-30T09:27:42","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:27:42","slug":"janet-jackson-pays-tribute-to-her-son-in-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/janet-jackson-pays-tribute-to-her-son-in-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"Janet Jackson Pays Tribute to Her Son in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.451807228916\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019230\/rs_634x1024-190330082357-634-janet-jackson.cm.33019.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Janet Jackson\" alt=\"Janet Jackson\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"13.667953667954\">\n<p class=\"speakable-p-1 p-text\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/janet_jackson\">Janet Jackson<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;paid tribute to her son&nbsp;<strong>Eissa Al Mana<\/strong>&nbsp;as she was inducted into&nbsp;the&nbsp;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&nbsp;on Friday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable-p-2 p-text\">The 2-year-old boy is the 52-year-old pop queen&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/936151\/janet-jackson-gushes-about-her-son-eissa-in-a-rare-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">only child<\/a>. His father is her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/861489\/janet-jackson-and-wissam-al-mana-face-off-in-divorce-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ex,&nbsp;Qatari businessman<\/a>&nbsp;<strong>Wissam Al Mana<\/strong>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p-text\">&#8220;He wakes me up every single morning singing his own little melodies. He&#8217;s only two, you guys,&#8221; Janet told the crowd at Brooklyn&#8217;s Barclays Center. &#8220;I want you to know that you are my heart, you are my life, and you have shown me the meaning of real unconditional love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"64.984107579462\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28.574572127139\">\n<p>According to <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/music\/2019\/03\/29\/janet-jackson-thanks-2-year-old-son-rock-hall-you-my-life\/3317659002\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">USA Today<\/a><\/em>,&nbsp;Janet also thanked her fans, her producers, choreographers&nbsp;such as <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/paula_abdul\">Paula Abdul<\/a><\/strong>, her late father <strong>Joe Jackson<\/strong> and her brothers, whose group the <strong>Jackson 5<\/strong> was inducted into the Rock Hall in 1997.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As the youngest in the family, I was determined to make it on my own. I wanted to stand on my own two feet,&#8221; Janet said. &#8220;But never in a million years did I expect to follow in their footsteps. Tonight, your baby sister has.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She did not name any of her brothers, including the late&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/michael_jackson\">Michael Jackson<\/a><\/strong>, who has been making headlines in recent weeks over a shocking new documentary, <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1023721\/starbucks-and-more-brands-distance-themselves-from-michael-jackson-after-leaving-neverland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Leaving Neverland<\/a><\/em>, which details resurfaced allegations of child sex abuse.<\/p>\n<p>Other stars inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Friday included&nbsp;<strong>Def Leppard<\/strong>, <strong>The Cure<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/stevie_nicks\">Stevie Nicks<\/a><\/strong>, <strong>Radiohead<\/strong>, and&nbsp;<strong>The Zombies<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1028286\/janet-jackson-pays-tribute-to-her-son-in-rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-speech?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jamie McCarthy\/Getty Images For The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Janet Jackson&nbsp;paid tribute to her son&nbsp;Eissa Al Mana&nbsp;as she was inducted into&nbsp;the&nbsp;Rock and Roll Hall of Fame&nbsp;on Friday. The 2-year-old boy is the 52-year-old pop queen&#8217;s only child. His father is her ex,&nbsp;Qatari businessman&nbsp;Wissam Al Mana.&nbsp; &#8220;He wakes me up every single morning singing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-270333","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-25 08:01:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}