MICHAEL JACKSON

Mica. Mayra. Maia

Introducción:

Good morning and welcome. I hope you all had a pleasant journey here today.

My name is Mayra and they are Micaela and Maia. In today’s presentation we’d like
to talk about Michael Jackson’s biography.

We are hoping to cover three points Firstly who Michael Jackson is after that, we will
look a this musical carrer, and finally we’ll talk about his death. If there are any
questions you’d like to ask, please leave they until the end, when we’ll do our best to
answer them.

Body

(1st point)

To start with who Michael Jackson is, we can Say He was born in Gary, Indiana in
1958. Both of Jackson’s parents previously had musical aspiration themselves:
Katherine, his mum, played the clarinet and the piano and she had aspired to be a
country singer, while Joseph, Jackson’s father, was a guitarist who performed in local
R&B bands. They encouraged their children to pursue musical at the age of five
under his father’s encouragement. Jackson attended Gardner Elementary for some
months until his single “I want you back” took him to a fame in 1969 and he went on
to take classes with private tutors.

From the late 1980s, he became a figure of king of pop but later he was accused of
sexually abusing the child of a family friend in 1993, but the case was settled out of
court for an undiscovered cost and no formal charges where filed. In 2005 Michael
was tried and acquitted of new allegations of child sexual abuse.

Returning to his early years, his father Joseph molded his sons into a musical group
in the early 1960s that would later become known as "The Jackson 5". 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.

Michael began his solo career while simultaneously performing with the Jackson 5.
He released his debut solo album at age 13 with Got to Be There (1971), making the
charts with the title track. He had his first solo No. 1 single with the title track from
his sophomore album Ben. Michael achieved his solo career breakthrough with Off
the Wall in 1979, which was his first album with Epic Records and his first produced
by Quincy Jones, whom he had met while working on The Wiz. An infectious blend of
pop and funk, Off the Wall featured the Grammy Award. Critics felt the album moved
Jackson from the pop music of his youth into a more complex sound, and some have
called it one of the best pop albums ever made.

That concludes the first point of the presentation.

MUSICAL CAREER

Now, let's move into his musical career. Jackson's unrivaled success with the release of his
six solo album Thriller (1982), which as of August 2021 was still recognized by Guinness
World Records as the best-selling album of all time. This álbum generated seven Top 10
hits, including “Thriller,” “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” “Human Nature,” “Wanna Be Startin’
Somethin’,” and “P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing).”
The album garnered 12 Grammy Award nominations and notched eight wins, both records at
the time. Jackson also filmed an elaborate music video was for the album’s title track.
Directed by filmmaker John Landis, the 14-minute “Thriller” mini-movie features a horror plot
that culminates with Jackson dancing with zombies in an abandoned city street. Following its
debut on MTV on December 2, 1983, it was hailed as one of the greatest music videos of all
time and became the first music video to be selected for the National Film Registry in 2009.
On a 1983 television special honoring Motown, Jackson performed his No. 1 hit “Billie Jean”
and debuted the moonwalk, which became one of his signature moves. The dance step,
which R&B musician Jeffrey Daniel had taught him three years earlier, involves the dancer
gliding backwards despite bodily actions that suggest forward motion. The much-lauded
dance performance further boosted sales for the already-successful Thriller album. The New
York Times hailed Jackson as a “musical phenomenon,” writing: “In the world of pop music,
there is Michael Jackson and there is everybody else.”
In 1985, Jackson showed his altruistic side by working with Lionel Richie to co-write “We Are
the World,” a charity single for the non-profit organization USA for Africa. A veritable who’s
who of music stars participated in the project, including Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Willie
Nelson, Bruce Springsteen, and Tina Turner. It became one of the top-selling singles of all
time and raised, by some accounts, more than $75 million for humanitarian aid to fight
poverty in Africa.
Five years after Thriller, Jackson released his highly-anticipated follow-up album Bad in
1987. This álbum became the first album to feature five No. 1 hits with “I Just Can’t Stop
Loving You,” “Bad,” “The Way You Make Me Feel,” “Man in the Mirror,” and “Dirty Diana.”
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese directed the title track’s music video, which featured a
then-unknown Wesley Snipes and involved an elaborate story about delinquent teenagers
and gang violence. Jackson spent more than a year on the road, playing concerts to
promote the album.
In 1991, Jackson released his eighth solo album Dangerous, his first without Quincy Jones
in 16 years. The album marked a different direction for Jackson and mixed various genres,
including R&B, funk, gospel, hip-hop, rock, industrial, and classical. It included the hit single
“Black or White,”.
Jackson’s musical career began to decline with the lukewarm reception to HIStory: Past,
Present, and Future, Book I (1995). HIStory was considered Jackson’s most personal album,
with lyrics pertaining to his child abuse allegations and anger of his treatment by the media.
In 2001, Jackson released Invincible, his final studio album prior to his death. It cost $30
million to produce, making it the most expensive album ever made. The album touched upon
such topics as isolation, social issues, and Jackson’s continued objections to the media.
So, that concludes Michael Jackson’s musical career.

THE END
Now, let's take a look at his death.
Jackson died on june 25,2009, at the age of 50, after suffering a cardiac arrest in his Los
Angeles home. CPR attempts failed, and he was rushed to the hospital, where he died later
that morning in february 2010, an official coroner's report revealed Jackson’s cause of death
was acute propofol intoxication, or a lethal overdose on a prescription drug cocktail including
the sedatives midazolam, diazepam and lidocaine.
Aided by his personal physician Dr.Conrad Murray, Jackson had been taking sedative drugs
to help him sleep. Murray told the police that he believed Jackson had developed a particular
addiction to propofol. Murray reportedly administered propofol intravenously in the evenings.
Evidence showed that the standard of care for administering propofol had not been met, and
the recommended equipment for patient monitoring, precision dosing, and resuscitation had
not been present. As a result, Jackson’s death was ruled a homicide. Murray was convicted
of involuntary manslaughter (this means homicide) receiving a four-year maximum prison
sentence.
There is much more information and many theories and conspiracies about his death but we
decided not to go into the subject. So, that's an overview of the death of Michael Jackson.

SUMMARISING THE PRESENTATION

That brings us to the end of the final section. Now, if I can just summarise the main points
again, We could say that.
● Michael Jackson was an artist called the king of pop who was born in Indiana. His
worst part was when he was accused of sexually abusing children.
● He released his debut solo album at age 13.
● "Thriller" is without a doubt one of the best álbums created in history and it was made
by Michael Jackson.
● Despite the complications that challenged him in his career, he will never cease to be
relevant to the music industry.
● Jackson died on june 25, 2009 at the age of so, he suffered a cardiac arrest in his
Los Angeles home.
Thank you for you attention, if anyone has any questions, we'll be pleased to answer
them.