Jermaine Jackson, elder brother of the late Michael Jackson [ Images ], will now collaborate with Adnan Sami [ Images ] to release a new album. It will be produced by T-Series.

Jermaine will come to Mumbai [ Images ] on October 2 for the recordings. Jermaine also plans to sing an Adnan song in the album.

Incidentally, Jermaine is close friends with Shilpa Shetty [ Images ], whom he had met when the duo were in the reality television show, Big Brother. He had provided Shilpa a shoulder to cry on when she was courting controversy with the late Jade Goody [ Images ].

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