La Toya Yvonne Jackson (born May 29, 1956) is an American
singer,
songwriter,
author,
television personality,
actress,
businesswoman,
philanthropist,
activist and former
model. She is the fifth child of the
Jackson family. She maintained a career as a singer throughout the 1980s and 1990s, and returned to music in 2004 with her
Billboard charting songs "
Just Wanna Dance" and "
Free the World". An EP called
Starting Over was released on June 21, 2011.