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Michael Jackson's Life and Legacy

Michael Jackson was born in 1958 in Gary, Indiana and began his career in music at age 5 under his father's encouragement. Known as the "King of Pop", Jackson became the lead singer of the Jackson 5 and went on to immense solo success with albums like Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad. However, his later years were plagued by child molestation allegations. Jackson had two children through artificial insemination before dying of cardiac arrest in 2009 at his Los Angeles home at age 50, less than a month before he was scheduled to begin a series of comeback concerts.

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Michael Jackson's Life and Legacy

Michael Jackson was born in 1958 in Gary, Indiana and began his career in music at age 5 under his father's encouragement. Known as the "King of Pop", Jackson became the lead singer of the Jackson 5 and went on to immense solo success with albums like Off the Wall, Thriller, and Bad. However, his later years were plagued by child molestation allegations. Jackson had two children through artificial insemination before dying of cardiac arrest in 2009 at his Los Angeles home at age 50, less than a month before he was scheduled to begin a series of comeback concerts.

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Jackson was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana.

Under his father's encouragement,


Jackson's career in music began at the age of 5.Known as the "King of Pop," Michael Joseph Jackson
was a best-selling American singer, songwriter and dancer. As a child, Jackson became the lead singer
of his family's popular Motown group, the Jackson 5. He went on to a solo career of astonishing
worldwide success, delivering No. 1 hits from the albums Off the Wall, Thriller and Bad. In his later
years, Jackson was dogged by allegations of child molestation.
Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, was a homemaker and a devout Jehovah's Witness. His father,
Joseph Jackson, had been a guitarist who put aside his musical aspirations to provide for his family as
a crane operator. Behind the scenes, Joseph pushed his sons to succeed. He was also reportedly
known to become violent with them.
At the age of 13, Jackson launched a solo career in addition to his work with the Jackson 5, making
the charts in 1971 with "Got to Be There," from the album of the same name.
'Ben' (1972)
Jackson’s 1972 album, Ben, featured the eponymous ballad about a rat. The song became Jackson's
first solo No. 1 single.
'Music and Me' (1973)
Jackson's third solo album, Music and Me was his least successful.
Thriller' (1982)
Released in 1982, Jackson’s sixth solo album Thriller is the best-selling album in history, generating
seven Top 10 hits. The album stayed on the charts for 80 weeks, holding the No. 1 spot for 37 weeks.
In August 1994, Jackson announced that he had married Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of rock icon
Elvis Presley. The couple gave a joint television interview with Diane Sawyer, but the union proved to
be short-lived. They divorced in 1996. Some thought that the marriage was a publicity ploy to restore
Jackson's image after child molestation allegations.
Jackson and Rowe had two children through artificial insemination: Son Michael Joseph "Prince"
Jackson Jr., born in 1997, and daughter Paris Michael Katherine Jackson, born in 1998. When Rowe
and Jackson divorced, Michael received full custody of their two children. Jackson would go on to
have a third child, Prince Michael "Blanket" Jackson II, with an unknown surrogate.
On June 25, 2009, less than three weeks before the first show was due to begin in London, with all
concerts sold out, Jackson died from a cardiac arrest.[Conrad Murray, his personal physician, had
given Jackson various medications to help him sleep at his rented mansion in Holmby Hills, Los
Angeles. Paramedics received a 911 call at 12:22 pm Pacific time (19:22 UTC), and arrived three
minutes later. Jackson was not breathing and CPR was performed.Resuscitation efforts continued en
route to Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, and for more than an hour after arriving there, but
were unsuccessful,and he was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm Pacific time (21:26 UTC).

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