February 24, 2014

Michael Jackson who is?

Michael Joseph Jackson (Gary , Indiana, August 29, 1958 -Los Angeles , California, June 25, 2009 ) known simply as Michael Jackson was a singer, songwriter, and dancer pop music and its variants. Known as the " King of Pop ", achieved about 80 records for different reasons [citation needed] and was included in the Guinness Book of Records on numerous occasions , including: being the musician 's award-winning story , with hundreds of awards, including 15 Grammy awards , the youngest to lead the singles chart in the United States , with 11 -year-old singer , the first vocalist to enter the singles chart at number 1, " You are not alone '; most weeks at number 1 on the list of albums (excluding noise band) in the United States, with Thriller, for 37 weeks, most successful music video , Michael Jackson's Thriller , with around 1 million units sold, first entertainer to win more than $ 100 million in one year; highest paid entertainer of all time (125 million in the 1989 Forbes list ), and most successful entertainer of all time .




He has been the first and only artist who has managed to start and finish the year with an album at # 1 ( Thriller ) and the first and only artist in history to achieve number 1 in the 1960 , 1970, 1980 and 1990 . (See " Awards and honors " section for more information ) .
His contribution to music , dance and fashion , along with his publicized personal life, made ​​him a figure of popular culture. He began his career with his brothers in the band The Jackson 5 in the mid- 1960s, in which he published ten albums with them until 1975. In 1971 he began his solo career, although he continued to belong to the band of brothers . Due to the extraordinary impact of his album Thriller (1982 ) , the biggest selling album in the history of music (even in 2013) , became the biggest star in pop music at the time. Some of his published albums like Off the Wall (1979 ) , Bad (1987 ) , Dangerous (1991) and HIStory : Past , Present and Future , Book I ( 1995) , are among the best-selling albums of all time , what that helped him get into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Furthermore, thirteen of the 98 singles Jackson reached the top of the Billboard 100. It is estimated that Michael Jackson has sold between 350 to over 400 million of its musical productions , making it one of the best-selling musicians of recent times .


He was recognized for his career with the nickname "King of Pop " , with the music superstar pop17 most successful worldwide, but also their music included a broad understanding of sub-genres such as rhythm & blues ( soul and funk ) disco and dance . Also during his life served as a musical influence on dozens of artists . Michael Jackson throughout his career has won multiple awards, has been included twice in the Hall of Fame Rock, has broken multiple records in the Guinness World Records and has received twenty-six American Music Awards and fifteen Grammy awards in various categories music , two of which are posthumous . He holds the record for the most awarded artist in music history with over 400 awards. It has also been recognized for his acts of philanthropy, holds the record that the artist has donated more money to charity , with hundreds of millions of dollars donated to 39 institutions of this type .
Later , he became involved in two controversial chapters: the first in 1993 and later in 2003. In both cases, the singer was accused of child abuse, through allegations of sexual abuse of two children of thirteen years in each case. However, the charges were withdrawn after paying a sum of more than twenty million dollars to avoid a trial in the first case and in the second , to be acquitted at trial for lack of evidence . These events had global impact and affected the final years of his life and career.
Almost a decade later , was released Invincible ( 2001) , whose launch was recognized as a total failure , since sales were lower than the costs and the artist was involved in a dispute with his record . After more than ten years since their last tour, Michael Jackson announced his comeback with a tour that would be titled This Is It , however , almost twenty days before the start of the tour, June 25, 2009 , the singer died of cardiac arrest .


The Forensic Department of the County of Los Angeles said his death was a homicide, and his personal physician pleaded "not guilty" to charges of involuntary manslaughter in court and paid a deposit for not entering prison, his trial was postponed by January 2011 . The sudden death of the artist led to an avalanche of global shame, and to more than two billion people watched his public funeral live on television . In 2010 , Sony Music Entertainment signed a contract with his family for $ 250 million to retain distribution rights to his records and publish seven posthumous albums until 2017.