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Michael Jackson

Written by Roger Frost Thursday, 10 November 2011 22:53

Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, to an African-American working-class family. His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator.

Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, to an African-American working-class family. His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator.

Michael Joseph Jackson, born August 29, 1958 and died June 25, 2009. His contribution to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades.

The Jackson 5 moved on to working an opening act for such R&B artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gladys Knight may have been the one to tell Motown founder Berry Gordy about the Jackson 5. Impressed by the group, Gordy signed them to his label in 1968.

Michael Jackson's use of music video to promote his hit songs of "Beat It", "Billie Jean", and "Thriller", were responsible for transforming the video medium into an art form and a hugely popular promotional tool. The success of these music videos help bring the relatively new television channel MTV into popularity.

Despite a number of surgeons' claims that Jackson has undergone multiple nasal surgeries as well as a forehead lift, thinned lips and cheekbone surgery, Jackson wrote in his 1988 autobiography "Moon Walk" that he only had two rhinoplastic surgeries and the surgical creation of a cleft in his chin, while attributing puberty and diet to the noticeable change in the structure of his face.

For it all to end on June 25, 2009, with his sudden death at age 50 of a drug-induced cardiac arrest, just as he was coming out of a four-year reclusive period and rehearsing for a sold-out London concert "comeback" in July, seems uncommonly cruel and tragic. Jackson's death was ruled an accidental drug overdose.


Singer-songwriter Michael Jackson's award-winning career as the King of Pop transformed the face of pop music and popular culture. He died unexpectedly in 2009. The cause of death an accidental drug overdose.