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                        Introduction

Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an

American singer, songwriter, and dancer. Dubbed the "King of Pop", he
is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th
century. Through stage and video performances, he popularized
complicated dance techniques such as the moonwalk, to which he gave
the name, and the robot. His sound and style have influenced artists of
various genres, and his contributions to music, dance, and fashion,
along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure
in popular culture for over four decades. Jackson is the most awarded
artist in the history of popular music.
                       The beggining
• The eighth child of the Jackson family, Jackson made his professional debut in
1964 with his elder brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon as a member
of the Jackson 5. Jackson began his solo career in 1971 while at Motown
Records, and rose to solo stardom with his fifth studio album Off the
Wall (1979) during the peak of the disco era. By the early 1980s, Jackson became
a dominant figure in popular music. His music videos, including those for "Beat
It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller" from his sixth studio album Thriller (1982), are
credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art
form and promotional tool. Jackson's prominence propelled him and the
television channel MTV into cultural phenomenons of 1980s pop culture. At the
1984 Grammy Awards, Thriller won a record-breaking eight GrammyAwards,
including Album of the Year. Jackson continued to innovate with videos on the
global best selleralbums Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) and HIstory-Past,Present
and Future,Book I (1995).
                   Family
• Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, near
Chicago, on August 29, 1958.He was the eighth of ten
children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-
American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson
Street.His mother, Katherine Esther Jackson (née Scruse),
played clarinet and piano, had aspired to be a country-and-
western performer, and worked part-time at Sears. She was
a Jehovah's Witness. His father, Joseph Walter "Joe"
Jackson, a former boxer, was a crane operator at U.S.
Steel and played guitar with a local rhythm and blues band,
the Falcons, to supplement the family's income. Joe's great-
grandfather, July "Jack" Gale, was a US Army scout; family
lore held that he was also "a Native American medicine
man".Michael grew up with three sisters (Rebbie, La Toya,
and Janet) and five brothers (Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon,
and Randy). A sixth brother, Marlon's twin Brandon, died
shortly after birth.
                              Influences 
Jackson was influenced by musicians including James Brown, Little Richard, Jackie Wilson,
Diana Ross, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr., Gene Kelly, and David Ruffin.Little Richard had a
substantial influence on Jackson, but Brown was his greatest inspiration; he later said that as
a small child, his mother would waken him whenever Brown appeared on television. Jackson
described being "mesmerized".
Jackson's vocal technique was influenced by Diana Ross; his use of the oooh interjection from
a young age was something Ross had used on many of her songs with the Supremes. She
was a mother figure to him, and he often watched her rehearse. He said he had learned a lot
from watching how she moved and sang, and that she had encouraged him to have
confidence in himself.
Choreographer David Winters, who met Jackson while choreographing the 1971 Diana Ross
TV special Diana!, said that Jackson watched the musical West Side Story almost every week,
and it was his favorite film; he paid tribute to it in "Beat It" and the "Bad" video
             Iconic songs
• 1983: "Billie Jean" #1.
• 1983: "Beat It" #1.
• 1983: "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'"
#5.
• 1983: "Human Nature" #7.
• 1983: "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)"
#10.
• 1983: "Say Say Say" (with Paul
McCartney) #1.
• 1984: "Thriller" #4.
• 1987: "I Just Can't Stop Loving You"
(with Siedah Garrett) #1
                                 Awards
• Thriller
 Album of the Year (Thriller)
 Record of the Year ("Beat It")
 Producer of the Year, Non-Classical (Thriller, shared with Quincy Jones)
 Best Male Pop Vocal ("Thriller")
 Best Male Rock Vocal ("Beat It")
 Best Male R&B Vocal ("Billie Jean")
 Best R&B Song ("Billie Jean")
 Best-Engineered Album, Non-Classical (To Bruce Swedien)
                          Concert pictures

         Bad Tour Bucharest Concert The Legacy Tour Atlanta Concert

  Thank you
for watching!