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

Michael Joseph Jackson an African-American was born in Gary, Indiana with nine of the other siblings. He’s the seventh child of the Jackson family started his professional music scene at the age of 11 as “The Jackson 5” and later began his solo career in early 70’s. From age 5, he started & loved to perform his musical talent in front of his classmates especially during Christmas. From backup musicians of playing tambourine until he began to performed backup vocals and danced. With all the hard works he resulted being dubbed the “King of Pop” a nickname given by Elizabeth Taylor in 1989 & received lots of other awards throughout 80’s.

As in 1990’s his career were brought down by a child abuse case of 13 year old child named Jordan Chandler but the case was settled with a sum amount money that was declared in many magazines. Later that year, Michael Jackson married to Lisa Marie-Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley in Dominican Republic secretly but divorced in less than 2years time. After that low peak in his life, he began his world tour in 1996 with 82 concerts in 58 cities to over 4.5millions fans. He released “Blood on the Dance Floor: History in the Mix” and in 1999 he involved in a number of charitable events while in 2001 released Invincible.

Here are the solo albums which were the best-selling records: Off The Wall (1979), Thriller (1982, the world’s best selling record), Bad (1987), Dangerous (1991) & History (1995). And in early 80’s, Michael Jackson became a popular figure in mass entertaining with his MTV hits the popularity such as “Beat It”, “Thriller”, “Billie Jean”, “Black or White”, “Scream”. With his talent of dancing, he have a very strong stage performances a popularized a number of complicated dance techniques such as robot & the moonwalk.

Michael Jackson (also named as MJ) with multiple of Guinness World Records (Most Successful Entertainer of All Time, 13 Grammy Awards & 13 number one singles) made him a part of popular culture for almost four decades. As from last month, some of the magazines wrote that he will probably held his concert tour for the last time but died of a sudden heart attack or cardiac arrest that was shocked news to everyone with his aged of 50 today June 25^th, 2009. MJ reportedly collapsed at his rented home in Los Angeles were rushed by 911 to UCLA Medical Center. Paramedics performed CPR where he reportedly not breathing while on the way to UCLA. He fell into coma & died shortly after arrive the center.