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Introduction
The most phenomenal popular music success since Elvis Presley and the Beatles is the first and foremost brilliant entertainer Michael Joseph Jackson. Michael has become one of the most recognizable, if not the most recognizable, figure in the entertainment industry. ...
Background
Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana on August 29, 1958 as the seventh of nine children to Katherine and Joseph Jackson. Siblings were Maureen, Sigmund “Jackie,“ Tariano “Tito,“ Jermaine, LaToya, twins Marion and Brandon (Brandon lived less than 24 hours), Michael, Janet, and Stephen Randall “Randy”.
Michael lived in a small four-bedroom house with a living room, kitchen, one bathroom and two bedrooms. ... Michael had a very strict upbringing. ...
Surprisingly enough, at the age of a year and a half, young Michael was always impressed by his older brothers’ musical rehearsals and loved to imitate the dance steps and singing of his brothers. ...
Michael successfully sang his first solo in front of his entire school when he was in the kindergarten at the age of six. ...
In spite of his very young age of six, Michael soon distinguished himself as a singer and dancer of unique ability. Michael definitely had a gift for vocal phrasing that was not only well beyond his years, but would have been astonishing in a performer of any age.
By the early 1960s, Michael’s father decided that Michael should join his brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marion, and form a group. ... The result was the discovery of the Jackson Five. Young, talented, sexy, and cute, the group made a remarkable series of hits with Michael as the star soloist and dancer executing routines patterned after James Brown and Sammy Davis Jr. Michael’s music has a strong rhythm and steady dance beat that combines elements of soul, rhythm and blues, and rock. ...
After winning several talent contests, the Jackson Five signed a recording contract with the trailblazing soul label Motown and proceeded to rule the charts in the late 1960s and early 1970s with such hits as I Want You Back, Stop, The Love You Save, ABC, and Dancing Machine. The Jackson Five gained fame through their Motown recordings and their television appearances. ... Two years later, Michael released his first solo album, and he sang the hit title song to the movie Ben. Other solo albums with Motown included Got to Be There (1972), Ben (1972), Music and Me (1973), Forever, Michael (1975), and Best of Michael Jackson (1975). As a soloist, Michael produced his new persona. ...
Michael was seventeen years old when he left Motown to signed with Epic Records, which gave Michael a solo deal. ... Quincy Jones, who produced the soundtrack album, became one of Michael’s longtime friend and collaborator.
On the other hand, there has been a turning point in Michael’s life. With Michael’s combined elements of many different types of music and videos, his music has been less successful and his popularity has been affected by newspaper scandals in the 1990s.
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