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Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, died June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California), often called “The King of Pop, is the most successful solo artist of all time, with over 750,000,000 sales. Jackson is a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and twice led the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. His awards include 8 Guinness World Records, 13 Grammy Awards and 26 Billboard prices. He is also credited with having popularized physically complicated moves much like dancing robot and the moonwalk, and has influenced and led to a generation of a variety of artists such as Justin Timberlake, Buckethead, Mariah Carey, Usher, ICP, Neyo and Chris Brown, among others.

Jackson’s musical career began in 1967 as a singer of The Jackson 5, the group made its first recording with a local label before signing with Motown Records in 1968. He made his first solo album in 1971, while still a member. But it was extinguished (1979 Wall), which marked the beginning of his solo career full-fledged, which officially separated from his brothers in 1984. In his solo career, Jackson recorded and co-produced the bestselling album of all time, Thriller (with worldwide sales of more than 100 million euros), has received thirteen Grammy Awards and thirteen # 1 singles route to the United States. UU. During his career spanning four decades, Michael Jackson has received numerous honors, including the Prix World Music Best-selling Pop Male Artist of the Millennium. There is also a dual-induced in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1997 and 2001 as a solo artist. He is also a member of the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In the mid-1980s, Time magazine described Jackson as “the hottest single phenomenon since Elvis Presley. He had a notable impact on music and culture around the world while breaking down racial barriers and pave the way for modern pop music.

From 1988 to 2005, Jackson lived on his Neverland Ranch property, on which he built an amusement park and private zoo for the enjoyment of children who are economically disadvantaged and terminally ill. In 1993 and 2003, apart from allegations of child sexual abuse which allegedly took place at Neverland were made against Michael Jackson, who drew a strong negative media coverage. Even if he was never charged in the first case, Jackson was tried and confirmed in 2005, the last argument, but relocated to the United States shortly after. He then returned to Las Vegas in early 2007.

In recent years, Jackson has made numerous public appearances, including MTV VMA awards in Japan where he accepted the award legends, the World Music Awards in which she accepted the Diamond Award for selling over 100 million records, the funeral of James Brown, where he paid homage and gave his sermon, and an event to thank supporters in Tokyo, Japan, where he greeted troops of US Army at base Camp Zama. In early 2008, Jackson Thriller 25th Anniversary release, a critical and commercial success which is now the second biggest selling album of 2008, with over 2.1 million copies sold worldwide.

On June 25, 2009, Jackson collapsed in a rented house in Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California. The cause of death is now considered a cardiac arrest. At the time of his death, Jackson was scheduled to perform 50 concerts sold over one million people in the O2 Arena in London July 13, 2009 to March 6, 2010. During a press conference, publicity, Jackson has made suggestions of possible retirement.

In the hours following the death of record revenues Jackson has increased dramatically. His seminal album Thriller has risen to number one in the U.S. charts of iTunes music, while eight others made the Top 40. In the United Kingdom, where Jackson was made less than three weeks after his death, fifteen of his albums took the top 15 points in the table of the Amazon music. In the Last.fm social music network site also increased dramatically by Michael Jackson played for an hour after the announcement of his death.

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