05/09/2026
Meet and learn about the birth of our owner Brita Jackson
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It was December 1982. A nine-year-old girl ran down the stairs of her apartment building in Los Angeles and sat beneath an open window, waiting for her teenage neighbor to put on the hottest album in the world. The music floated through the air and filled her soul. When the album ended, she ran to the garage to practice dancing to the rhythms that awakened something deep inside her.
But as she poured her soul into movement, she was accused of "dancing for the devil" and beaten by her stepfather, an evangelistic preacher determined to break what he believed was a spell over her spirit. Still, she returned to that window, filling her heart with the music again so she could throw her soul onto the dance floor once more - only to be met with another beating.
As the girl grew, so did her love for dance. She pushed herself to discover who she truly was, eventually finding herself sitting in front of a camera, unaware that her life was only beginning to take shape. Then came the day she faced the man who had spent years trying to silence her freedom. His hands were cold as he lay motionless before her. At fifteen years old, she shed a tear for the pain he had brought into her life, then walked out of that doorway and onto her first dance studio floor, finally ready to unleash everything the world had tried to hold back.
She sat alone afterward, asking herself who she was meant to become. Around that same time, Michael Jackson was breaking free from his own pain and stepping fully into himself. And on that day, the name Brita Jackson was born.
Here's to 38 years of the name behind the face the public has seen, but never truly known.
Thank you, Michael.