Jackson and biography

Latest news biography Michael Jackson is a legendary American musician, the most successful pop singer in world history, dancer, actor, songwriter. The artist during his lifetime became an idol of pop music and the recognized king of this genre. Unlike the stage image, in life the idol of millions was closed, and the reckoning for success was undermined physical and mental health.

According to the zodiac sign - Virgin. The boy became the seventh child out of nine. The childhood of the future star cannot be called happy. Later, Jackson has repeatedly mentioned that his father was a real tyrant, oppressing children morally and physically. About some atrocities of the head of the family, who worked as a crane operator at a steel factory, the singer spoke to the Winfrey Opherian show in the Winfrey show.

Once in the middle of the night, his father, putting on a terrible mask and publishing piercing screams, climbed out the window to the sleeping Michael. So he wanted to teach children to close the windows before bedtime. After this incident, the child was tormented by nightmares, as if he was abducted from his own bedroom. In the year, Joseph Jackson himself admitted that he really assumed to children.

Cruel upbringing played an angry joke with Michael, on the one hand, accustoming to iron discipline, which was positively spoken at his achievements, and on the other hand, crippling the psyche for life. Embed from getty images Michael Jackson as a child, a father who played an electric guitar in the amateur ensemble of Falcons, led to the stage and his own children. Joseph united five offspring into the musical team The Jackson 5.

Michael was the youngest member of the group, but this did not stop him from attracting attention. He possessed a unique manner of performance and unusual choreography. In the year, the group signed a contract with the Motown Records sound recording studio. It was with this company that the artists released their hits, which became popular in subsequent years.

This success also had the opposite side: the children employed in the show did not have time to communicate with peers and even a regular visit to the school, their parents transferred them to home schooling. In the year, the musical family managed to reach a nationwide level - several of their singles were noted on the highest lines of the American chart Billboard Hot since the year the team’s success began to go to naught, and the ensemble signed a contract with another company, calling The Jacksons.

All the group released albums and traveled with performances around the country. At the end of the GO at the final concert of the Victory tour, Michael announced the decision to leave the team and focus on a solo career. The beginning of a career simultaneously with work in the family team The Jacksons Michael Jackson released four solo albums and several singles that gained popularity.

Ben's composition became the soundtrack for the picture of the same name, received the Golden Globe and the nomination for the Oscar’s gold figurine - the summer Michael performed a hit on the award ceremony. It was this musical director that later acted as the producer of the most famous albums of the star. The first of them was Off the Wall album presented to the world Michael Jackson as a bright, original young performer and dancer.

The record was sold in a million circulation. The Thriller album in November was released by the Thriller disc, which went down in history as the best -selling album in the world and gave America and all other countries such immortal hits as The Girl is Mine, Beat It and others. This disc was held at the tops of the hit parades for 37 weeks and brought Jackson eight Grammy Awards.

In the year, the musician released the track Billie Jean. Almost immediately, Michael shot a musical video on this composition, in which he combined dances, special effects, a complex plot and star cameras. The singer tried to get to MTV, but to no avail. Musical critics of this period admitted that such a rejection of Michael Jackson's work was most likely associated with racial stereotypes, but MTV employees denied any manifestation of racism.

Nevertheless, Billy Jin was the first clip of the African American performer to fall into the hot rotation of the canal. By the spring of the year, under the pressure of CBS Records, the channel surrendered and launched the video on the air. Then, a clip for the song Beat it appeared on the screens, and long -term cooperation was established between the musician and the channel.

According to critics, a minute “thriller” is rather a full -fledged short film than a video for a song. Until the moment the loss of the composition began to sound in the video, 4 minutes of the plot passed, in which Jackson managed to reincarnate into a werewolf. Against the background of Michael’s song, a sunbeam is heard, characteristic of classic horror films, and the action in the video unfolds according to the canons of horror, ending in the legendary dance of the artist surrounded by a zombie.

Similar musical videos that were more like short films have become a unique Jackson chip. And for other artists thereby Michael raised the bar high.The famous “lunar” gait of the idol of millions for the first time demonstrated on March 25 of the year on the show Motown Yesterday, Today, Forever during the performance of the Billie Jean song. In addition to the completely new choreography, Michael brought synchronous dance performing in live concerts, opening the era of pop performances, during which artists recreating musical clips on the stage.

Now it seems ordinary to the viewer, but then it produced a real splash, if not a revolution. World glory is not all the clips of the stars were successful with critics and the public. In the year, a minute video for the song BAD came out, his director was Martin Scorsese. Also, in the film, at that time, the unknown actor Wesley Snipes participated at that time.

A shortened 4-minute version fell into the rotation. Time magazine called the musical video to this song “shameful”, and all because of the overly sexy and causing movements of Jackson. And here was already meant by his branded touch of the crotch. Subsequently, in an interview with Winfrey, the musician admitted that these movements came out involuntarily, the music demanded such emancipation.

It is noteworthy that the scandalous fame of the track was not used to be used for advertising purposes - with this composition with an altered text, the artist appeared in the Pepsi video. In the year, the musician presented his new Smooth Criminal work to the audience. Here Jackson first performed movement, called "anti -gravity inclination." The complex element demanded from the musician to lean forward almost to the floor, and then straighten up, without bending his legs, - hidden belts were used on the set for this.

At the end of the same year, a controversial video for the song Black or White was presented. The clip was watched by a million people, which was a record at that time. The composition called for racial tolerance and rejection of violence. People of different nationalities starred in the video, Makole Kalkin, Peggy Lipton and George Wendt took part in its creation. But in the original version of the clip there were scandalous elements, which the public regarded as a call for violence.

The musician apologized and was forced to edit the video. At the Soul Train Music Award award ceremony, actress Elizabeth Taylor called Michael Jackson in the year “the real king of pop, and rock music,” after which the title of the king of pop music still entrenched in the musician. When releasing his 8th album Dangerous, the artist acted not only as the author and performer, but also as a producer-cooperation with Cuincy Jones was stopped by that time.

To support the collection, the singer went to Dangerous World Tour - he gave almost seven dozen concerts and donated the income received to charitable organizations. After that, the musician, impressed by the trip, promised to release a song about the country that became a new point in his tour schedule. Special attention is deserved by the composition in the Closet from the Dangerous album.

It was originally planned that the song will be recorded in a duet with Madonna. However, already at the initial stage of cooperation, everything went wrong. Jackson was an author, and he did not like the ideas of the text she proposed. As a result, a certain “mysterious girl” Mystery Girl was indicated on the record as a performer of female vocals. Later it became known that she became the princess of Monaco Stefania.

In the video, the British supermodel Naomi Campbell acted as a seducer. By the way, for a video version, the female party was overwritten - Naomi itself sings in the video. In the year, the composition of Give in to Me, which critics called the most gloomy, sinister and make -up songs in the career of the musician, came out. In this track, Jackson retreated from the genre of pop music, in which fans are used to seeing the performer-according to critics, the track became the best hard-rock performance of Michael in his career.

Prior to the premiere of the single, rumors and scandals already went around him, the singer was accused of anti -Semitism. In America, the track did not rise in the ratings above the lines, but in Europe he headed the hit parades and received a gold certification. But even greater problems at the song began with the release of the clip. The first shooting of the video took place in Brazil, but the musician remained dissatisfied with the result.

The video was shifted, frames from prisons, genocide scenes, bullying and beatings were added. After that, American television channels refused to show the clip, and the premiere of the video in the USA in the new version did not pass. The collection combined 15 new songs and a disk with the most popular hits. The first on a double album, which was originally planned as part of the trilogy, was the composition of Scream, which Michael wrote together with his sister Junet Jackson.

The singer also fulfilled this promise and presented a song about Moscow - Stranger in Moscow in the year, which entered the new album.

It turns out that he wrote this ballad about loneliness, while still in Russia, in his Moscow hotel room. Environmental Song's environmental song about the problems of environmental protection and unpunished poaching has published in the same collection. The video clip for the "song of the Earth" was shot on four continents.Jackson again arrived in Moscow with a concert in m. In the year, the Invincible album was presented, his release was preceded by a conflict between Jackson and the sound recording of Sony label regarding the albums of the performer.

The case came to public insults, courts and termination of cooperation. The king of pop music intended to release a new disc in the year, but, unfortunately, did not manage to do this. Also in the summer of this year, the musician planned the concert tour of the is it tour. Initially, it was about ten concerts, but the demand for tickets was so high that the organizers provided an additional 40 performances.

In addition to music and dancing, films also fascinated the movie. In M, the Moon Gait, dedicated to the famous choreographic movement of Jackson, was released in the rental. It is noteworthy that the film was released in Europe and Japan, spectators in the United States saw it only in the year on video cassettes - they were sold out.