Born August 29, 1958 in Indiana (USA).
His parents were Joe and Katherine Jackson, a crane operator at a factory that was in financial difficulties to maintain their large family, completed by the brothers and sisters Michael: 5 higher than him, Rebbie Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, La Toya Jackson (also a singer) and Marlon Jackson, and 2 younger: Randy Jackson and Janet Jackson popular.
Joe, who was an amateur musician decided to create the group The Jackson Five with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael (years later he joined Randy). After a somewhat difficult start this young band won a resounding success by becoming one of the precursors of the phenomenon of teen-themed genres like R & B, soul funk and disco. Among his extensive discography albums and compilations included as "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" (1969), "ABC" (1970), "Third Album" (1970), "Christmas Album" (1970), "Goin 'Back To Indiana "(1971)," Greatest Hits "(1970)," Maybe Tomorrow "(1971)," Lookin 'Through The Windows "(1972)," Skywriter "(1973)," Get It Together "(1973)," Dancing Machine "(1974)," Moving Violation "(1975) and" Joyful Jukebox Music "(1976), all edited by the legendary Motown.
Later came a more mature stage in which it began to be called "The Jacksons" and where they recorded the albums "The Jacksons" (1976), "Goin 'Places" (1977), "Destiny" (1978), "Triumph" (1980 ), "Live" (1981) and "Victory" (1984), which was the last collaboration with his brother Michael.
His parents were Joe and Katherine Jackson, a crane operator at a factory that was in financial difficulties to maintain their large family, completed by the brothers and sisters Michael: 5 higher than him, Rebbie Jackson, Jackie Jackson, Tito Jackson, Jermaine Jackson, La Toya Jackson (also a singer) and Marlon Jackson, and 2 younger: Randy Jackson and Janet Jackson popular.
Joe, who was an amateur musician decided to create the group The Jackson Five with Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael (years later he joined Randy). After a somewhat difficult start this young band won a resounding success by becoming one of the precursors of the phenomenon of teen-themed genres like R & B, soul funk and disco. Among his extensive discography albums and compilations included as "Diana Ross Presents The Jackson 5" (1969), "ABC" (1970), "Third Album" (1970), "Christmas Album" (1970), "Goin 'Back To Indiana "(1971)," Greatest Hits "(1970)," Maybe Tomorrow "(1971)," Lookin 'Through The Windows "(1972)," Skywriter "(1973)," Get It Together "(1973)," Dancing Machine "(1974)," Moving Violation "(1975) and" Joyful Jukebox Music "(1976), all edited by the legendary Motown.
Later came a more mature stage in which it began to be called "The Jacksons" and where they recorded the albums "The Jacksons" (1976), "Goin 'Places" (1977), "Destiny" (1978), "Triumph" (1980 ), "Live" (1981) and "Victory" (1984), which was the last collaboration with his brother Michael.
Although Michael had already done some solo albums such as "Got To Be There" (1971), the soundtrack of the movie "Ben" (1972), "Music And Me" (1973) and "Forever, Michael" (1975) his consecration alone failed to cooperate with the record producer Quincy Jones, for which he recorded the hit album "Off The Wall."
Both returned to work in 1982 at the legendary and monumental "Thriller", to date the best selling album in history (with 32 million copies) and it finally became the king of pop worldwide.
His good run continued with the flagship charity single "We Are the World" (which worked with many stars of the music) and albums such as "Bad" (1987) and "Dangerous" (1991), the latter no longer Quincy Jones collaboration.
In the late 90 and early twenty-first century came following his work "HIStory: Past, Present and Future - Book I" (1995), "Blood On The Dance Floor" (1997), "Invincible" (2001), the which the last two results were quite discreet. His discography is completed with the compilations "Number Ones" (2003), "The Ultimate Collection" (2004), "The Essential Michael Jackson" (2005), "Visionary - The Video Singles" (2006), "Thriller: 25th Anniversary Edition "(2007) and" King of Pop "(2008).
We also made some inroads as an actor in the movie "The Wizard" (1978) or the strange "Moonwalker" (1987), a film that mixes documentary material with video clips and some pieces of fiction in which they played themselves. His life was fraught with great concerts, revolutionary choreography, great and historic video clips and many eccentricities (strange statements, controversial operations that damaged their physical or their marriages with Lisa Marie Presley and Debie Roe (with whom he had two children through insemination articificial) gave plenty to talk about). In recent years the pedophile allegations damaged her image almost irreparable. At an early date was scheduled to begin a new concert tour. He died on June 25, 2009 at the age of 50 years as a result of a heart attack. All those who enjoy their music with us to stay with his musical legacy and his enormous talent. With his death, the music lost one of its most important and influential figures of the past 30 years. On this occasion our In Memoriam has been shorter and more concise than usual, because we have seen its history, and there still remain in force in the retinas and ears of a whole generation of artists and their size on over words.
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