Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated dance techniques such as the moonwalk, to which he gave the name, and the robot. He died from an overdose of propofol administered by his personal physician, Conrad Murray. In 2016, his estate earned USD 825 million, the highest yearly amount for a celebrity ever recorded by Forbes.
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Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, and dancer. He is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century. Through stage and video performances, he popularized complicated dance techniques such as the moonwalk, to which he gave the name, and the robot. His sound and style have influenced artists of various genres, and his contributions to music, dance, and fashion, along with his publicized personal life, made him a global figure in popular culture for over four decades. In 2016, his estate earned USD 825 million, the highest yearly amount for a celebrity ever recorded by Forbes. Jackson is the most awarded artist in the history of popular music. He received 13 Grammy Awards, the Grammy Legend and Grammy Lifetime Achievement awards, six Brit Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and 39 Guinness World Records, including the \”Most Successful Entertainer of All Time\”. He died from an overdose of propofol administered by his personal physician, Conrad Murray. In August 2009, the Los Angeles County Coroner ruled that Jackson’s death was a homicide, and Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in November 2011. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street. His father, Joseph Walter Walter, was a former boxer, a crane operator at U.S. Steel, and played guitar with a local rhythm and blues band, the Falcons. Michael grew up with three sisters and five brothers, a sixth brother, Marlon, and a sixth nephew, Brandon.
Michael said his father told him that he regularly whipped his nose; family lore held that he was also a Native American medicine man. Michael’s mother, Katherine Esther Jackson, played clarinet and piano, and worked at Sears’s. She was a Jehovah Witness and worked as a country-and-western performer, part-time performer, and lived in a Sears-Sears store in Gary, Indiana. Jackson had 13 Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles, more than any other male artist. In 1993, he was accused of sexually abusing the child of a family friend. The lawsuit was settled out of court, and Jackson was not indicted. Jackson continued to innovate with videos on the global best-seller albums Bad, Dangerous and HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I. He had a top ten single in the Billboard Hot100 in five different decades. Jackson was also the first artist to have a top 10 single in four different decades, including five in the 1980s and 1990s. His music videos are credited with breaking racial barriers and transforming the medium into an art form and promotional tool. In the late 1980s, Jackson became a figure of controversy and speculation due to his changing appearance, relationships, behavior and lifestyle. He won a record-breaking eight Grammy awards, including Album of the Year, for Thriller. His remix album Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix is the best-selling remix album of all time.
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