Maureen Reillette "Rebbie" Jackson (born May 29, 1950, Gary, Indiana) is the oldest sister of the highly successful Jackson family. Rebbie began her solo career in 1984 with "Centipede," a song written and produced by her brother Michael Jackson. The song reached number 4 on the R&B charts and 24 on the POP Billboard Charts. After this good performance the album Centipede was released - four years after the first Jackson sister LaToya went solo. The video for "Centipede" can be seen here: Centipede. If you listen closely to the background vocals you can hear Michael Jackson's voice in "Centipede". With reasonable chart placings it paved the way for Rebbie's second solo album titled Reaction. Reaction did not sell as well as its predecessor, and the two singles from the album ("You Send the Rain Away" and "Reaction") only reached #40 and #16, respectively, on the charts. The video for "You Send the Rain Away" can be seen here: You Send the Rain Away.

In 1988 Rebbie made a comeback with the minor hit "Plaything," which reached number 8 on the R&B Billboard Charts. The follow-up single "R U Tuff Enuff" did not do as well, and the subsequent album, also called R U Tuff Enuff, sold even fewer copies than Reaction had. After this album, Rebbie left CBS Records and signed with her brother Michael Jackson's record label MJJRecords.

After releasing a greatest hits package in 1995 titled "Best of Rebbie Jackson Collection", Rebbie Jackson produced and released a brand new album called "Yours Faithfully" in 1998. The album featured ten new songs as well as the older hit "Centipede."

Rebbie married a fellow Jehovah's Witness Nathaniel Brown at the age of eighteen. Together they have two daughters, Stacee and Yashi, and a son, Austin (nicknamed Auggie). All of her children were featured as background vocalists on "Yours Faithfully". Auggie is currently working on his first album.

Rebbie's most recent appearance in the public eye was when she once accompanied brother Michael Jackson to court for his child molestation trial in 2005.

In October of 2005 it was alleged by Young DeBarge, the younger brother of 80s superstar El DeBarge, that Rebbie was raising the "lost child" of Janet Jackson by his brother, James DeBarge. She has made no comment on the accusation.

Discography

Albums

* 1984: Centipede
* 1986: Reaction
* 1988: R U Tuff Enuff
* 1996: The Rebbie Jackson Collection
* 1998: Yours Faithfully

Singles

* 1984: "Centipede"
* 1984: "Play Me (I'm a Jukebox)"
* 1985: "A Fork in the Road"
* 1986: "Reaction"
* 1986: "You Send The Rain Away"
* 1988: "Plaything"
* 1988: "R U Tuff Enuff"
* 1998: "Yours Faithfully"

Source: Wikipedia.org