Michael Jackson (1958-2009), known as the "King of Pop", was an American singer and dancer who rose to fame as the lead singer of the Jackson 5. Some of his most popular albums included Thriller, Bad, and Dangerous. Throughout his career, Jackson broke many music industry records and revolutionized music videos. However, he also faced several legal issues related to child sexual abuse allegations. Jackson died in 2009 from a lethal combination of drugs administered by his personal physician. He remains one of the best-selling artists of all time.

1. Michael
Jackson
The King of Pop
1958-2009

2. Michael Joseph Jackson Scruse was born the 29th of
August in 1958 in Gary,Indiana.
His mother is Katherine Esther Scruse,was Jehovah's
Witness.His father,Joseph Jackson,worked in a factory
and sang in ‘’The Falcons’’.
Michael had three sisters (Janet,Rebbie and La Toya)
and five brothers (Jackie,Tito,Jermaine,Brandon and
Randy).

3. During his childhood lived in Gary with his parents and brothers,in
the Jackson street.
From an early age he showed interest in music. In 1964, he and his
brother Marlon joined the band Jackson Brothers, formed by his
brothers Jackie , Tito and Jermaine. Michael stood out from the
rest of his brothers for his hability to sing and dance and he and
Jermaine became in vocalists of group who later called The
Jackson Five.

4. At fourteen years old, began his solo career with albums
Got to Be There and Ben, at the time to combine their
work as lead singer of the group that formed with his
brothers.
In 1982, he contributed the song "Someone In the Dark"
to the audiobook of the film ET the Extra-Terrestrial and
won a Grammy for best album for kids.
That same year, Michael released his second album with
Epic, Thriller, the biggest selling album in history. On the
25th of March(1983) acted in the''special Motown 25:
Yesterday, Today, Forever,''where he played the song
"Billie Jean" and introduced the "moonwalk".

5. • On January 27th, 1984, he filmed a
commercial for Pepsi Cola and other
family members at the Shrine
Auditorium in Los Angeles. During the
filming of it, the singer suffered second
degree burns on her scalp and part of
his face because the fireworks that
were used in a scene, had an explosion
was greater than the expected.
·On May 14, 1984, was invited to
the Whitehouse to receive a special
prize awarded then U.S. President
Ronald Reagan, for his
humanitarian work. Also in
1984, the artist won eight Grammy
Awards.

6. In early 1980, began to make a strict vegetarian
diet because he wanted a "dancer's body."
In 1986, he was diagnosed with vitiligo, so his
skin was missing pigmentation, so it had to
avoid sun exposure .. In order to give more
BAD
consistent tone his skin, resorted to makeup.
Later, he starred in the short film Captain EO
3D, directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
Then released Bad (1987), his first studio
album in five years.
On September 11, 1987 Bad World Tour
began, tour which culminated 14th January
, 1989.
Jackson entered to the Book Guinness of the
Records when it filled completely seven times
Wembley's stadium, congregating to more than
half a million spectators. His tour consisted of
123 concerts and obtained a collection of 125
million dollars, part of which donated to
hospitals, orphanages and to entities of
welfare.

7. • In March, 1988, he bought an estate in Holy
Ynez, California, for seventeen million dollars to construct
there his mess Neverland. At this property was to be built a
theme park, a zoo and a cinema. In 1989, thanks to the sales
of his albums and his concerts, it obtained earnings estimated
in 125 million dollars,became this way into one of the artists
best full of the world. Thanks to the enormous popularity that
he harvested it was nicknamed " the king of pop ".

8. In March 1991, renewed his contract with
Sony for $ 65 million. In this year published
Dangerous, his eighth album of study.
Dangerous sold seven million copies in The
United States and 32 million copies
worldwide. The first single was "Black or
White“and the second was "Remember the
Time“.In 1992, Michael created the Heal
the World Foundation,to help the world's
poorest children, victims of violence and
terminal illness.

9. • In the summer of 1993, the singer was accused of sexually
molesting of Jordan Chandler, one of the many children who he
was receiving in Neverland,by the child and his father, Evan
Chandler. At the request of justice, his Neverland Ranch was
searched and some children and families accused the singer of
being a pedophile. To Avoid to come to Judgment, the court singer
Reached an agreement With The family of Jordan, paying twenty-
two million dollars for the charges were dropped.
• On 30 June 2009, five days after the death of Michael Jackson and
sixteen years after the accusation Jordan Chandler -the
child, already adult - declared publicly that THE SINGER HAD
NEVER TOUCHED HIM AND THAT HE LIED BECAUSE WAS FORCED
BY HIS FATHER TO GO OUT OF THE POVERTY.

10. In 1995 published the double
In May, 1994, Jackson married album HIStory: Past, Present
Lisa Marie Presley in and Future, Book I. It sold
Dominican Republic. They more than twenty million
separated two years later. copies in the world and
turned on the double disc
most sold of all the times.

11. • In November, 1996, he married a nurse
of his habitual dermatologist: Debbie
Rowe. Debbie gave birth the first two
children of the singer, Michael Joseph
Jr (Prince) and Paris-Michael Katherine
(Paris). They were divorced in 1999 but
they remained as friends and Rowe
granted the custody of the children to
the singer.

12. • In October, 2001 published the album Invincible.
Invincible made début in the top of the hit parades
of thirteen countries and sold approximately thirteen
millions of copies in the whole world. In the United
States it was certified by " double platinum ".

13. • In 2002 the third son of Jackson was born, Prince Michael
Jackson II.By Michael, the child was conceived by means
of artificial insemination, using his sperm and an
abdomen of rent. In November of this year the artist
returned to be a news when newborn child showed to his
son across the balcony of the Hotel Adlon, in
Berlin, covering it totally with a blanket, attitude that
turned out to be very criticized in the mass media. Later
he said to the press that this episode was a terrible
mistake of his part and he apologized for the happened.

14. • On March 5, 2009, in an audience in London, before
20,000 spectators, Michael Jackson announced his
return to the scenes with the tour This Is It. Initially, it
would rely on ten concerts that Sand would be
celebrated in the above mentioned city in the O2 in July.
According to what the same one said, these concerts
would be the last ones that it would give in the English
capital. The expectation increased the demand of the
public, for what they added forty more presentations of
the established ones in a beginning.

15. • In the morning of June 25, 2009, the artist suffered a
cardiorespiratory unemployment in his mansion rented of Holmby
Hills
• After realizing his autopsy, the forensic ones of the Department of
the Coroner (court officers) it determines that Jackson's death had
been provoked for " sharp poisoning of propofol " in combination
by " sedative benzodiacepinas ", supplied by Conrad Robert Murray.
From the death of Michael, the accusations his doctor Murray have
not dismissed. On February 8, 2010, the court accused of "
involuntary homicide " Murray, using in proof the official report of
his death (that was announced in Internet the same day of the
judgment) . He declared himself " not culprit ", paid a bail of 75.000
dollars not to join prison. Two days later, the doctor continued
attending to patients, though the restriction was imposed of not
realizing sedations.

16. • The public brief was celebrated on July 7, 2009 in
the Staples Center of the city of Los Angeles. His
funeral celebrated privately on September
3, 2009 in the Great Mausoleum (Holly Terrace)
placed in the cemetery Forest Lawn of Los
Angeles.

17. After his death, Michael Jackson
turned into the artist who more
sold in 2009 in The United States,
where more than 8,2 millions were
sold of álbumes, where as in the
rest of the world more than 35
millions were sold of albums in
twelve months later to his death

18. THE END
Andrea Aldao 2ºC.