Janet Jackson reveals she grew up wanting to study business law instead of becoming a performer

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She is one of the best selling women artists of all-time.But Janet Jackson didn't grow up wanting to be a musical artist despite having an insanely successful performing family.The 55-year-old A-lister appears on the cover of the latest issue of Allure magazineas she donned plenty of couture and got candid about her career and influence.

Icon: Janet Jackson appeared on the cover of the latest issue of Allure magazine as she donned plenty of couture and got candid about her career and influence Other aspirations: Janet (seen in 1986) revealed that she wanted to go to college to study law and focus on acting despite her brothers in the Jackson 5 becoming international superstars as a musical actJanet revealed that she wanted to go to college to study law and focus on acting despite her brothers in the Jackson 5 becoming international superstars as a musical act.

She said: 'We would always write music growing up. We had a studio at my parents' house; it’s still there actually. So any time of day or night, if you couldn’t sleep or had an idea before school, after school, you could go in the studio and put it down, your idea, musically.'So I did that and I put this idea that I had down and played all the parts on it and, like a genius, I left the tape on the machine and when I came home from school I was so embarrassed.