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Jody Watley is a style forging pioneer, innovator and Grammy Award winning recording artist and hit-making songwriter. She has amassed an incredible 32 Top Ten Singles in a diverse range of genres from Pop, Dance, and R&B from the 80's, 90's and 00's, 10's.
Jody Watley was named one of "America's Most Beautiful" by People Magazine and Harper's Bazaar, and has also been featured in fashion magazines around the world including the historic "The Black Issue" of VOGUE Italia.
She's also renowned for her trendsetting style including jumbo hoop earring many still refer to as 'Jody Watley Hoops.'
She has the quiet distinction as the first mainstream artist to incorporate a rapper with the customized 16 bar verse on her multi-format 1989 hit single "Friends" featuring Eric B and Rakim, wanting to go beyond the Melle Mel Chaka Khan song "I Feel For You" intro. Subsequent collaborations merging R&B/Pop with Hip-Hop/Rap became such successful formula in Pop Music and that The Grammy's added the Rap/Sung Category in 2002.
Watley's stylish video "Real Love" directed by Academy Award Nominated Director David Fincher remains one of MTV's Most Nominated videos.
Jody Watley released a Top 10 Fitness Video selling over a million copies titled "Dance to Fitness", a first for an African American Woman and Artist. Watley also appeared in the first celebrity ad campaign for GAP, LA Eyeworks and a previously unprecedented 15 page layout in the prestigious Fall Catalog for Saks Fifth Avenue photographed by the legendary Skrebneski.
To learn more visit her official website.
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I love it, cutting your hair can be so liberating especially if you are going through things in life. It looks wonderful on her, I say go Janet!
Oooh first time I saw it! I like it. I did the same thing too, just it it all off, and its is liberating.
Janet looks great, she radiate beauty
..and. always thought this..but she REALLY looks like Michael with the hair cut like this.
I didn't know fans hated your short hair! I thought you looked stunning.
Cutting your hair short tends to accentuate facial features, yours are very stylized so it brought them out even more, much like Angela Bassett who also sported that look triumphantly in my opinion.
Janet's face is also beautiful but it is wider, not sure it's ideal for her features but all that matters is if she likes it, so go Miss Janet = )
It's always nice to change things up a bit. I like this look personally. But check out her neck! I have a thing for necks.
Klick
Another blog of Jody's I'm sending to my mom - she needs to subscribe! When I was young my mom had brain surgery and had all of her hair cut off. For months she wore wigs, but as it began to really grow she wore them less. Then I noticed she was back with them on and it wasn't until recently that I found out it was my FATHER who disliked her (or any women) with short hair!!! I wish she had known other women often find it liberating to have short hair, it may have made her stand stronger without the wigs.
Still have your framed Gap ad up, stunning and holds up to this day. Something so intimate, brave and beautiful about a lady who can own short hair.
I absolutely love Janet's short hair. I think it becomes here. It shows a woman is really brave and secure in her beauty when she can be beautiful without all that extraneous hair! Jan definitely has the looks and poise to pull this off.
By the way, I remember your short cut when I was growing up as I was a big fan!! And I LOVED it on you, I thought it was very boss, fashionable and chic.
This blog has stuck with me for days, I think maybe it's time for a new hairstyle change for me -- something a little more radical -- maybe more rock star for the summer.
Yes, Janet looks awesome. =)
I do think she looks great, just like the short do looked great then on you.
I personally find it fascinating that once women have trimmed their hair short, first glimpses part audiences in two camps. The Lovers and the Not-Lovers.
For the Not-Lovers: it'll grow again.
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