Janet Jackson was honored with the Icon Award on the 2025 American Music Awards tonight in Las Vegas. She celebrated by making her first TV efficiency in seven years, throughout which she broke out “Somebody to Name My Lover” and “All for You” onstage on the Fontainebleau Las Vegas. Backed by a stay band, Jackson danced her means across the stage in a Vetements denim outfit whereas singing each songs, and backup dancers labored via flashy choreography close by. Watch a replay beneath.
Actress Tasha Smith launched Jackson earlier than handing her the Icon Award onstage. “I’m so, so honored. I’m so grateful,” Jackson stated throughout her acceptance speech. “I imply no disrespect in any means, however I don’t take into account myself an icon. My household, myself—our dream wasn’t ever to be well-known. We weren’t raised like that. We all the time had a particular love for music, dancing, and singing, and fame got here with the results of arduous work and dedication. My story, my household’s story, it’s really an American story. This might have solely occurred in America. The one factor that I hope for is that I’ve been an inspiration to others and artists to comply with their desires and succeed. I wish to thank my workers, my administration, CAA, Dwell Nation, AEG, to all of the unbelievable dancers, musicians, and producers that I’ve labored with. To my household who’ve been my greatest supporters since beginning, and, after all, to the followers. Due to you and God, I’m standing proper right here. I wanna thank the AMAs for this honor, which I’m humbly grateful, and final however not least, I wish to say, hold God in each a part of your life, as a result of that’s the place he desires to be. I like you a lot.”
Jackson’s most up-to-date studio album, Unbreakable, got here out in 2015. The pop and R&B star has been busy on the street, touring her hits and previous staples, in addition to reissuing a number of of her albums, together with a particular twenty fifth anniversary model of The Velvet Rope. After being given the Icon Award on the Billboard Music Awards in 2018, Jackson acquired to bestow Mary J. Blige with that very same trophy a number of years later in 2022.
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