INTRODUCTION:

This blog will talk about the career of Michael Jackson "King of Pop" and "King of Entertainment" also talk a bit about his personal life.
Michael Joseph Jackson (Gary, USA, August 29, 1958 - Los Angeles, USA, June 25, 2009), known in the art world as Michael Jackson, was a singer, songwriter and dancer of American pop music in a broad sense that includes the sub rhythm and blues (soul and funk), disk and dance.

DEVELOPMENT:

After forming in the sixties, while still a child, a highly successful group with his brothers, The Jackson Five, in the early eighties became the most successful pop superstar worldwide, "the new king of pop "due to the extraordinary impact of his album Thriller (1982), the biggest selling album in the history of music.

Michael Jackson was known worldwide as the king of pop and "king of entertainment", the latter title suggested by the popular TV host Oprah Winfrey during an interview that it made him in February 1993. In addition, the Encyclopedia Britannica includes Michael Jackson, as remarkable rock star, in its "Rock music", with Madonna and Prince.

Throughout his career as soloist, the music of Michael Jackson was modernized and evolved, especially since the early 80's. This is manifested in the soul and funk musical styles he played, specifically in the fusion of soul and funk to disk ("Billie Jean" or "Thriller", 1982), then the soul and funk to dance, or hard dance ( "Bad" or "Smooth Criminal" in 1987) and that of soul and funk to hip hop ("Remember the time" or "Jam", 1991), the latter fusion is called new jack swing.

But Michael Jackson, like many pop stars of the 80, also entered the rock through innovative songs like "Beat It" "Dirty Diana" (1987), "Black or White" (1991), "Give in to I "(1991)," DS " (1995), "Morphine" (1997) and "Privacy" (2001), in which they played, among others, featured hard rock guitarists like Eddie Van Halen, Steve Stevens and Slash.

Jackson was listed as a musical and artistic genius, which proved from its beginnings as a child prodigy with a truly remarkable level of interpretation. But it was also a controversial, with advocates and detractors, whom many legends and rumors surrounding (often fueled by himself) and became embroiled in accusations of pedophilia with two children, who had a worldwide impact and kept him away in the last years of the first row of popularity. Shortly after his death, and 16 years after the alleged criminal events, one of the children involved has stated publicly that the singer was innocent and that he lied because his father made him do it to get out of poverty with the money, indeed The artist gave in exchange for avoiding trial. The charges with the other child had finished another trial, of which Jackson was acquitted in his day.

On the morning of June 25, 2009, the artist suffered a cardiac arrest at his rented mansion in Holmby Hills. [122] service members called the emergency telephone 911 for help at 12:21 pm PDT (UTC-7 .). Paramedics, who arrived nine minutes later, they found no pulse or breathing, so he was given CPR and taken to the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles at 1:14 pm. But despite the efforts of the doctors was pronounced dead at 2:26 pm.

CONCLUSION:

Michael Jackson was a figure of dazzling career peaked as commercial and fame before the age of 30 years of age. But he mixed success and sad circumstances. The demands of his profession, his desire for perfection and improvement, and harassment of the press, were factors which, together with his shyness and extreme sensitivity, caused him stress and other health problems that were aggravated in the 1990's by problems court. All these problems are added to the trauma that Jackson drew a childhood too geared at work, and help explain his strange behavior and elusive, eccentric tastes, his obsessions and his final physical deterioration. In any case, his artistic genius is indisputable as global success, reflected in hundreds of millions of records sold. Supported by its spectacular promotion, music videos and concerts, in them he displayed his enormous talent as a singer and dancer, and pioneered many new choreography and visuals that have set the trend in the world of pop.