King of Pop Michael Jackson

MICHAEL JOSEPH JACKSON was an American singer, songwriter, record producer, dancer, and actor. Known as THE KING OF POP . A solid soul music Genius . Multi-talented performer of all time. His contributions to music and dance, Was captivating every audiences hearts. On his amazing dance move “ MOON WALK “ and his great quality of voice that totally took every ones attentions when he begin to performed on stage.

In His Early Life

. His father, Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist but had put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as a crane operator. Believing his sons had talent, he molded them into a musical group in the early 1960s. At first, the Jackson Family performers consisted of Micheal's older brothers, Tito, Jermaine and Jackie. Michael joined his siblings when he was 5 years old, and emerged as the group's lead vocalist. He showed remarkable range and depth for such a young performer, impressing audiences with his ability to convey complex emotions. which the group they called into the JACKSON 5.

Behind the scenes, Joseph Jackson pushed his sons to succeed. He was also reportedly known to become violent with them. Michael and his brothers spent endless hours rehearsing and polishing up their act. At first, the Jackson 5 played local gigs and built a strong following. They recorded one single on their own, "Big Boy" with the b-side "You've Changed," but it failed to generate much interest.

The Jackson 5 moved on to working an opening act for such R&B artists as Gladys Knight and the Pips, James Brown, and Sam and Dave. Many of these performers were signed to the legendary Motown record label, and it has been reported that 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.

Relocating to Los Angeles, Michael and his brothers started work on their music and dancing with their father as their manager. They lived with Gordy and also with Supreme s singer Diana Ross when they first arrived there. In August 1969, the Jackson 5 was introduced to the music industry at a special event, and later served as the opening act for the Supremes. Their first album, Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, hit the charts in December of that year. It's first single, "I Want You Back," hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in January 1970. More chart-topping singles quickly followed, such as "ABC," "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There."

Off The Wall in 1979 ,
which MICHEAL JACKSON was a solo performer . The album helped Jackson transition from the “bubblegum pop” of his youth to the more complex sound he would create as an adult. Song writers for the album included Jackson , rod temperton , stevie wonder and paul McCartney.
The album reached number three on the Billboard 200 and eventually sold over 20 million copies worldwide. In 1980, Jackson won three awards at the American music award for his solo efforts: Favorite Soul/R&B Album, Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist, and Favorite Soul/R&B Single for "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". He also won Billboard Year-End awards for Top Black Artist and Top Black Album, and a Grammy Award for Best Male R&B Vocal Performance for 1979 with "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough".

In 1981 Jackson was the American Music Awards winner for Favorite Soul/R&B Album and Favorite Soul/R&B Male Artist. Despite its commercial success, Jackson felt Off the Wall should have made a much bigger impact, and was determined to exceed expectations with his next release. In 1980, he secured the highest Royalty rate in the music industry: 37 percent of wholesale album profit.

DEATH OF MICHAEL JACKSON
On june 25, 2009 jackson died while lying in his bed at his rented mansion at 100 north carol wood drive in the Holmby Hills district of Los Angeles. Attempts at resuscitating him by Conrad murray , his personal physician , were unsuccessful. Los Angeles Fire Department paramedics recieved a 911 call at 12:22 (PDT, 19:22 UTC) , arriving three minutes later at Jackson location . He was reportedly not breathing and CPR was performed. Resuscitation efforts continued route to the Ronald Reagan UCLA medical center, and for more than an hour after arriving there at 1:13 (20:13 UTC). He was pronounced dead at 2:26 local time (21:26 UTC ) Jackson’s death triggered a global outpouring of grief

The news spread quickly online ,causing website to slow down and crash from user overload. Both TMZ and the los Angeles Times suffered outages.Google initially believed that the input from millions of people searching for “ michael jackson “ meant that the search engine was under DDoS attack, and blocked searches relates to michael jackson for 30 minutes. Twitter reported a crash , as did wikipedia at 3:15 pm PDT ( 22:15 UTC ). The Wikimedia Foundation reported nearly a million visitors to Jackson’s Biography within one hour , probably the most visitors in a one hour period to any article in Wikipedia’s history. AOL instant messenger collapsed for 40 minutes , a “ seminal moment in internet history “ , adding “we’ve never seen anything like it in terms of scope or depth.

Jackson’s memorial was held on July 7 2009 at the staples canter in los angeles , preceded by a private family service at Forest Lawn Memorial Park’s Hall of liberty . Because of the high demand , organizers of the service fashioned a lottery style distribution method to give out tickets to member of the public . Applications were submitted by 1.6 million fans for tickets to the service over the two-day period that registration was open . A total of 8,750 names were drawn at random to decide who to distribute tickets to, with each recipient receiving two tickets each. Jackson's casket was present during the memorial but no information was released about the final disposition of the body. The memorial service was one of the most watched events in online streaming history.

AFTER HIS DEATH

Jackson became the best-selling albums artist of 2009. He sold over 8.2 million albums in the United States, and a total of 35 million albums worldwide, in the 12 months that followed his death. Jackson became the first artist to sell one million downloads in a week in download history, with a record-breaking 2.6 million downloads of his songs. After his death, three of his albums sold more than any new album, which was the first time a catalog album has ever scanned more sales than any new album. Jackson also became the first artist in history to have four of the top 20 best selling albums in a single year in the United States.Following this surge in sales, Sony announced that they had extended their relationship with his material. The distribution rights held by Sony Music were due to expire in 201.
 On March 16, 2010, Sony Music Entertainment, in a move spearheaded by its Columbia/ Epic Label Group division, Signed a new deal with the Jackson estate to extend their distribution rights to his back catalog until at least 2017, as well as to obtain permission to release ten new albums with previously unreleased material and new collections of released work.
On November 4, 2010, Sony announced the release of Michael, the first posthumous album set to be released on December 14, with the promotional single released to the radios on November 8, titled "Breaking news". The deal was unprecedented in the music industry as it is the most expensive music contract pertaining to a single artist in history; it reportedly involved Sony Music paying $250 million for the deal, with the Jackson estate getting the full sum as well as its share of royalties for all works released.
In 2011, it was revealed that Jackson had recorded in 1981–1983 with Freddy Mercury, including a demo of "State of shock," "Victory" and "There Must Be More to Life Than This." These recordings were originally intended for a full-length album of duets but, according to Queen's then-manager, Jim Beach the relationship between the two singers soured when Jackson insisted on bringing a llama into the recording studio. None of these collaborations were officially released, although bootleg recordings exist. Jackson went on to record the single "State of Shock"  He later updated the release date to autumn of 2013 and then to 2014.
In 2012, in an attempt to end family public feuding, Jackson's brother Jermaine Jackson retracted his signature on a letter made public criticizing executors of Michael Jackson's estate and his mother's advisers concerning the legitimacy of his brother's will. T.J. Jackson, son of Tito Jackson, was given co-guardianship of Michael Jackson's children after false reports surfaced of Katherine Jackson going missing.
On March 31, 2014, Epic Records announced that an album of eight songs of unreleased material culled from past recording sessions would be issued under the title, Xscape It was released on May 13, 2014. On May 12, 2014, another young man, Jimmy Safechuck, sued Jackson's estate, claiming Jackson sexually abused him "from the age of 10 to about 14 or 15" in the 1980s.During the 2014 billboard music award on May 18, a "pepper's ghost" likeness of Jackson appeared, dancing to "slave to the rhythm ", one of the tracks from Xscape.