Janet Jackson was in her late teens when she released an album that changed her career and lifted her out of the shadows of her famous brothers who made up the Jackson Five — including little brother Michael Jackson. Something you may not know is that she came to Minneapolis to make that album... and it was also a turning point for the two producers she worked with.

MPR contributors Robbie Mitchem, Jamal Allen and Britt Aamodt bring us this final story in our Minnesota Now and Then series this year.