Michael Jackson
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Michael Jackson
(Gary, USA, 1958 - Los Angeles, 2009) American pop singer, pop star high eighties and nineties. Excellent dancer, accompanied by an undoubted attraction countless fans around theworld, Michael Jackon also showed a knack for business related to the world of music and entertainment. His private life was a constant source of news, not always positive, reflected in a profusion ofheadlines for magazines and other publications of general information.
Michael Jackson
Brother of fellow pop star Janet Jackson and singer LaToyah, Michael Jackson was for many years the leadsinger of the Jackson Five, the family group which, in one time or another, were part of all male children of the Jackson family .
Michael Jackson began his solo career in 1971 with Got To Be There,his first job came in 1972 the British Top 10 and number one in the country, the latter with the single Ben. He edited a couple of albums until 1975, though his real breakthrough as star intervenecame after the movie musical The Wizard of Oz. Although the film was not a blockbuster, the musical director Quincy Jones, was the architect that boosted the career of Michael to levels never seenbefore.
The importance of support from Quincy Jones was in evidence with the results from the album Off The Wall, 1979, which would give the new pop idol of the not inconsiderable sum of five consecutivehit singles, with songs like Rock with you or Don ' t stop (till you get enough).
These results are only a foretaste of what was to follow in Michael's career, since his next album, Thriller(1982), proved to be the biggest selling album in music history, with six of its nine songs as singles puffed in both American and British charts. In England achieved more fame with two songs sung withPaul McCartney, The Girl Is Mine, in 1982, and Say Say Say, in 1983.
The Jackson Five in 1971
Shortly before Michael Jackson was involved in the final tour of the Jacksons in 1985, and sponsored...
(Gary, USA, 1958 - Los Angeles, 2009) American pop singer, pop star high eighties and nineties. Excellent dancer, accompanied by an undoubted attraction countless fans around theworld, Michael Jackon also showed a knack for business related to the world of music and entertainment. His private life was a constant source of news, not always positive, reflected in a profusion ofheadlines for magazines and other publications of general information.
Michael Jackson
Brother of fellow pop star Janet Jackson and singer LaToyah, Michael Jackson was for many years the leadsinger of the Jackson Five, the family group which, in one time or another, were part of all male children of the Jackson family .
Michael Jackson began his solo career in 1971 with Got To Be There,his first job came in 1972 the British Top 10 and number one in the country, the latter with the single Ben. He edited a couple of albums until 1975, though his real breakthrough as star intervenecame after the movie musical The Wizard of Oz. Although the film was not a blockbuster, the musical director Quincy Jones, was the architect that boosted the career of Michael to levels never seenbefore.
The importance of support from Quincy Jones was in evidence with the results from the album Off The Wall, 1979, which would give the new pop idol of the not inconsiderable sum of five consecutivehit singles, with songs like Rock with you or Don ' t stop (till you get enough).
These results are only a foretaste of what was to follow in Michael's career, since his next album, Thriller(1982), proved to be the biggest selling album in music history, with six of its nine songs as singles puffed in both American and British charts. In England achieved more fame with two songs sung withPaul McCartney, The Girl Is Mine, in 1982, and Say Say Say, in 1983.
The Jackson Five in 1971
Shortly before Michael Jackson was involved in the final tour of the Jacksons in 1985, and sponsored...
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