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Michael Joseph Jackson
(August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009)
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Michael started his career in 1964 aged only six alongside his fellow brothers and family members in the Jackson Five. The group, led by Jackson’s father, worked hard touring many clubs and bars performing their mix of Motown hits. They gained the attention of record labels and in 1968 signed with Motown records. It was the youngest, baby-faced Jackson, that caught the eyes of many people and that was when his legacy as the all time best american singer and performer began.
Despite achieving his dream of being the best music performer, Michael’s childhood was far from happy. As he was regularly beaten and threatened by his authoritarian father. This act of abuse left Michael scarred throughout his adult life.
By the late 1970's Michael had released two solo albums the first album was known as Off the wall and the second was named Thriller it included number one hits such as Beat It, Billie Jean giving him top sales of about 49 million sales in Us and 110 million global sales, The albums were of a great success
Michael is also remembered by his distinctive and memorable dance move – the Moonwalk. In the dance routine, he effortlessly moves backwards with seemingly keeping one leg perfectly straight. His performance made him a global icon of not just music, but dance
By 1996, he married Deborah Rowe in Sydney. Together they had two children. They divorced in 1999 and Rowe gave full custody of children to Jackson
Michael had earnings of about $500 millions and had assets in Sony/ATV Music Publishing that worth over $300 million alone.
By 2002 Michael had started facing health problems that made his life more dependant in drugs, he faced skin a disorder that destroyed the pigmentation of the skin and the drugs he was using was weakening him more and more until then in 2009 at his house found fallen and that was the end of his life
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