Fourteen years after her last performance, pop icon Janet Jackson gave her first performance in a bold outing that gave the Yoruba culture of Nigeria a global boost.
It was the performance of her latest song, ‘Made for Now’ featuring Daddy Yankee, on the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon.
In a move likened to how royalty is welcomed among the Yorubas, several men beat talking drums known as ‘gangan’ chanting, ‘Asiko re, Janet ti de’ which in English means ‘this is your time, Janet has come’.
Janet who was dressed in Ankara, a wax-print fabric favoured by Yoruba and Africans in general, alongside her dancers, wowed the audience with her dance moves.
The official video on YouTube has garnered over 19 million views. And with similar ensembles of the talking drums and Ankara costumes worn by her and dancers in the video, it has had viewers raving about the fabric.
The 52-year-old mother of one recently divorced her Qatari billionaire husband.
Having sold over 100 million records, Janet is one of the world’s best-selling music artists. With singles like ‘Nasty’, ‘Rhythm Nation’, ‘That’s the Way Love Goes’, ‘Together Again’ and ‘All for
You’, Janel holds the record for the most consecutive top-ten entries on the US Billboard Hot 100 singles chart by a female artist with 18. In 2008, Billboard placed her number seven on its list of the Hot 100
All-Time Top Artists, and in 2010 ranked her fifth among the ‘Top 50 R&B/Hip-Hop Artists of the Past 25 Years.’ In December 2016, the magazine named her the second most successful dance club artist of all-time after Madonna.
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