The Long Success – the King

The king of pop, who was the most successful man in America, died with a long and famous life behind.

 

Af Meriam Al-Subaihi og Emilia Naomi Fick

 

Jackson’s childhood

Michael Joseph Jackson was his name. He was born in August 29, 1958 and died June 25, 2009. He was an American singer-songwriter, entertainer, dancer and music producer. He also was known as the "King of Pop", or by his initials MJ. Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with a much-publicized personal life, that made him a global figure.

 They were nine children in the Jackson family, and Michael was number five. He debuted on the professional music scene along with his brothers as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1964, and he began his solo career in 1971. The music videos for his songs, including those of "Beat It," "Billie Jean," and "Thriller," were contributed to breaking down racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. The popularity of these videos helped to bring the relatively new television channel MTV to fame.

The house was always filled with music. Jackson's mother taught the children people and religious songs.

 

 

Jackson's father, worked at a steel plant. He always dreamed of becoming a successful musician.

But when this failed to happen, he decided to do whatever it took to make successes of his children.

He tried to control his children's careers even after they were adults.

The Jackson boys soon formed a family band that became a success at amateur shows and talent contests throughout the Midwest. From the age of five Michael's amazing talent showed itself.

His dancing and stage presence made him to the natural focus of the group.

The Jacksons signed a contract with Motown Records and the famous head of Motown, took control of the Jacksons' careers when they started out as a band.

 The popular song 

 The song: “They don’t care about us” is written by Michael Jackson in 1996. The song is about people categorizing other people with different colors or internationalities. It had a big influence on the population in USA, because it was about races and that really brought the thoughts into their heads. Everybody loves the song. Actually the song is based on his own personal life. “I'm tired of being the victim of shame” he sings, and that’s why we think it relates to his life or his childhood. He is tired of being treated in a bad way just because he was black. Everybody should have the same rights. Music videos were filmed for the song. One was filmed in a prison and that was the first video for that song. It was quickly removed; there was much violence in music video. A little time after, a new video was ready for the public. It was filmed in Brazil and was aloud to show.
Michael tried to live both ways, black and white and knew how both blacks and whites were treated. Because of that, he wrote the song “They don’t care about us”.

You can hear the song here:             

 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNJL6nfu__Q

 The Jackson 5

 

The Jackson five was an American music group, which was in progress from 1962-1990. The group was best known for disco hits, and this experience opened for his coming career. The group was composed of Michael and his four brothers.

In 1965 started Michael as 7 years in the family band, Jackson five. The names of his brothers who were in the band were, Jermaine, Tito, Jackie and Marlon. Michael was the lead singer; Jermaine was on bass, Tito on guitar, Jackie and Marlon as choir. And their father Joe was the manager for the band. The last years, Jackson five attended in many competitions and they won. In 1968 they released their first single called "Big Boy", which they signed. A year after the first single they released the second single called "I Want You Back", and at the same time they signed a contract with the record company Motown (a record company which was established on January 12, 1959 in Detroit, the United States from Berry Gordy). The success was really impressive, and after 6 weeks, the single had been sold in more than 2 millions of copies. And that was the beginning of their career.

 Michael’s death

When Michael died was there a lot of people who had different attitudes. But in fact, we don’t know how he died. He died on 25 June 2009, less than a month before he was scheduled to begin a series of comeback concerts, paramedics were called to Michael Jackson's rented home in Holby Hills near Los Angeles where they found him unconscious and not responding. They were unable to revive the "King of Pop," and Michael was pronounced dead at the L.A. Medical Center.