Janet Jackson Receives the 1990 Video Vanguard Award

09/06/1990

Janet Jackson thanks Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Paula Abdul and others at the 1990 VMAs after becoming the first Black female artist to receive the Video Vanguard Award.

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