Janet Tag

Today ESSENCE revealed Janet Jackson as the quilt star of it’s July/August 2022 ESSENCE Festival of Culture issue. Within the feature story written by Gerrick Kennedy, Jackson, who's headlining this 12 months’s festival, talks about returning to the stage, however the photo spread also marks the singer’s return to the quilt of the magazine. The international superstar and pop icon has been on the quilt of ESSENCE eight times in it’s 52-year history, first appearing in 1985, three years after releasing her debut album, Janet Jackson. As we have a good time Jackson’s latest moment within the highlight with the mag, here’s a glance back at her covers over the past years. Try the total lineup for this 12 months’s festival here....