Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, was a singer, songwriter, music producer, dancer, actor and American philanthropist. Known as the "King of Pop," his contributions and recognition in the history of music and dance, as well as his publicized personal life, made him an international figure in popular culture for more than four decades. She is recognized as the most successful pop star in the world. However, his music included a wide acceptance of subgenres such as rhythm and blues (soul and funk), rock, disco and dance.

He began his artistic career in the mid-1960s in the musical group The Jackson 5, in which he published, along with some of his brothers, ten albums until 1975. In 1971 he began his career as a soloist, although he continued to belong. To the group. In the early 1980s, Jackson became a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," from his 1982 Thriller album, are considered a breakdown of racial barriers and the transformation of the medium into an art form and a promotional tool.

He was the eighth of the ten children of the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street in Gary, Indiana, an industrial city in the Chicago metropolitan area. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness. She played clarinet and piano and once aspired to be a country & western artist, but worked part-time at Sears to support the family.Michael's father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, a former boxer, was a hard worker of steel in the US Steel Joe acted as a guitarist in a local rhythm and blues band, the Falcons, to supplement the family's income.

In 1965, Michael began to share the lead vocals with his older brother Jermaine, and the group's name was changed to the Jackson 5. The following year, the group won a major local talent show with Jackson performing the dance of the success of 1965 by Robert Parker "Barefootin '". From 1966 to 1968 they toured the Midwest, frequently performing in a string of black clubs known as the "chitlin 'circuit" as support acts for artists such as Sam & Dave, the O'Jays, Gladys Knight and Etta James. The Jackson 5 also performed in nightclubs and party halls, where strip shows and other adult acts were performed, and in local auditoriums and high school dances.In August 1967, while traveling along the East Coast, the The group won a weekly night concert for amateurs at the Apollo Theater in Harlem.