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Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, and entertained audiences nearly his entire life. His father, Joe Jackson (no relation to Joe Jackson, also a musician), had been a guitarist, but was forced to give up his musical ambitions following his marriage to Michael's mother Katherine Jackson (née Katherine Esther Scruse). Together, they prodded their growing family's musical interests at home. By the early 1960s, the older boys Jackie, Tito and Jermaine had begun performing around the city; by 1964, Michael and Marlon had joined in.

A musical prodigy, Michael's singing and dancing talents were amazingly mature, and he soon became the dominant voice and focus of the Jackson 5. An opening act for such soul groups as the O-Jays and James Brown, it was Gladys Knight (not Diana Ross) who officially brought the group to Berry Gordy's attention, and by 1969, the boys were producing back-to-back chart-busting hits as Motown artists ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "Never Can Say Goodbye," "Got to Be There," etc.). As a product of the 1970s, the boys emerged as one of the most accomplished black pop / soul vocal groups in music history, successfully evolving from a group like The Temptations to a disco phenomenon.

Solo success for Michael was inevitable, and by the 1980s, he had become infinitely more popular than his brotherly group. Record sales consistently orbited, culminating in the biggest-selling album of all time, "Thriller" in 1982. A TV natural, he ventured rather uneasily into films, such as playing the Scarecrow in The Wiz (1978), but had much better luck with elaborate music videos.

In the 1990s, the downside as an 1980s pop phenomenon began to rear itself. Michael grew terribly child-like and introverted by his peerless celebrity. A rather timorous, androgynous figure to begin with, his physical appearance began to change drastically, and his behavior grew alarmingly bizarre, making him a consistent target for scandal-making, despite his numerous charitable acts. Two brief marriages -- one to Elvis Presley's daughter Lisa Marie Presley -- were forged and two children produced by his second wife during that time, but the purposes behind them appeared image-oriented.

Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. His passion and artistry as a singer, dancer, writer and businessman were unparalleled, and it is these prodigious talents that will ultimately prevail over the extremely negative aspects of his troubled adult life.

(1979) Album: &quot;Off the Wall&quot; (Epic).

(1995) Album: &quot;HIStory: Past, Present, and Future Book 1&quot;.

(1997) Album: &quot;Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Remix&quot;.

(1983) Single: Sang backing vocals on <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0734317/?ref_=nmwrk">Rockwell</a>&#39;s &quot;Somebody&#39;s Watching Me&quot;.

(1983) Music video with <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0005200/?ref_=nmwrk">Paul McCartney</a>: &quot;Say, Say, Say&quot;. Also on McCartney&#39;s &quot;Pipes of Peace&quot; album.

(1982) Album: Performed a song on the audio storytelling LP for <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0083866/?ref_=nmwrk">E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)</a>.

(1990) TV commercial: L.A. Gear athletic wear.

(1990) Songwriter: Wrote the lyrics for &quot;Do the Bartman&quot; (music by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm1754534/?ref_=nmwrk">Bryan Loren</a>).

(1979) TV commercial (Japan only): Suzuki.

(2009) CD: &quot;Hello World: The Motown Solo Collection&quot; (Motown).

(6/25/84) A five-part series aired on the afternoon TV program &quot;New York Style&quot; on Jackson and his family, for a week starting on this date.

(2014) Single: &quot;Love Never Felt So Good&quot; (posthumous release). NOTE: Originally recorded in 1983, written by <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0001912/?ref_=nmwrk">Paul Anka</a>.

(2014) Album: &quot;Xscape&quot; (posthumous release).

(11/10-11/11/2018) Stage: The musical revue, &quot;Who&#39;s Bad: The Ultimate Michael Jackson Experience,&quot; was performed at the Hunterdon Hills Playhouse in Hampton, NJ.

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