Michael Joseph Jackson.
Alias: Michael Jackson, Michael Jason Dixon.
Nationality: USA
Place of birth: Gary, Indiana, USA
Date of birth:1958 Aug. 29th 00: 13.
Date of death: June 25, 2009 14:26.
Occupation: singer, actor, artist, philanthropist
Masterpieces: Billie Jean, Beat It, Black or White.
Major achievements: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
American Music Awards Special Contribution Award
The greatest pop singer in the world.
Major achievements: Thriller, the best-selling album in the history of the world.
The most successful artist in the history of the world
Artists who donate the most to charity in their own name.
Forbes topped the list of deceased celebrities' income.
100 One of the greatest foreigners.
One of the 60 foreigners who influenced New China.
One of the most important 100 blacks in the 20th century.
Nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize twice.
Personal height: 5 feet 1 1 inch (180 cm).
Personal weight: 130 lbs (120 kg)
Blood type: O type
Date of burial: September 3, 2009
Best friends: diana ross, Elizabeth Taylor, etc.
Michael joseph jackson1958.8.29 —— June 25th, 2009, Pop Music, Rock Music, R&; Music singer, dancer, actor, choreographer, philanthropist and record producer. Called the greatest artist in history by Guinness World Records. Known as the king of pop, he is a representative figure of pop music and culture, and has created a legendary era for the whole history of modern pop music since the 1980s. As an excellent artist, he is an excellent music generalist. He has made outstanding achievements in lyrics, composition, scene making, arrangement, singing and musical instrument performance. It also has a unique contribution and extraordinary influence in dance, stage performance and fashion. He is recognized as the greatest artist in history and the most popular and supported artist in the world. As the lead singer and the youngest member, he made his debut in Jackson 5 in 1964, and later successfully started his solo career in 197 1. 1979 The album "Off The Wall" released by adults 1 is considered as a classic of disco music, and the album "Thriller" released by 1982 is the only album with a sales volume of over 100 million in the world, which combines the medicines of different fans, covering pop, funk, rock, Disco, R& etc. B's multi-element genius works not only broke through the racial boundaries and broke the situation that white people monopolized the pop music industry, but also pushed the black music in the subculture into the mainstream, paving a bright way for the black artists in later generations. He and Lionel Richie co-wrote the most famous commonweal single "One World" in history. He initiated modern music TV, and transformed music video from a propaganda tool into an artistic expression with music stories. As the founder and milestone of modern MTV music, his thriller truly marks the birth of MV. The music video of "Thriller", a single with great cultural, historical and artistic value, is the first modern MV in the world and is regarded as "the greatest music video in history". Becoming the first MV collected by the Library of Congress in the United States has promoted MTV's position in the modern music world, and Billie Jean music video has made Michael the first black singer to appear on MTV TV in history, destroying the business.
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Style is widely used, almost all over modern pop music. Michael Jackson also promotes complex modern dances, such as mechanical dances and spacewalks.
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His unique timbre, voice, singing and dancing spread all over the world, breaking the barriers of culture, R& economy and times, and inspiring and influencing countless pop, rock and roll, R & hip-hop artists. Michael won the Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award. As one of the few outstanding artists, he has been elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for three times. He also won several Guinness World Records, including "the most successful artist in world history", "the most profitable pop singer in a year" and "the most successful pop family". It has 65,438+05 Grammy Awards, 26 American Music Awards (the artists who won the most awards in the history of American Music Awards, including "One of the Artists of the Century") and 65,438+07 American billboard charts (including 4 jackson 5-era songs).
Thriller is the best-selling album in the world, with total record sales of 1. 1 1 billion (by the end of 2006). Other albums, Off the Wall (1979), Bad (1987), Danger (199 1 year) and History (1995), are also among the top in the world. In the "Global Record Sales Ranking" published by international federation of the phonographic industry in 2006, Michael Jackson ranked first, with global record sales exceeding 750 million and certified global album sales of 2,654,380,500, becoming the best-selling pop singer in music history. In 20 12, it was officially announced that the total record sales in Michael Jackson was close to 10 billion.
Jackson changed the art of pop music and music videos and created his own kingdom in modern pop music. Jackson's unique music, singing and dancing influenced pop music, R&; B. Many artists of rock and hip-hop music mainly influenced Mariah Carey, britney spears, Beyonce, Arthur, Justin Timberlake, Chris Brown, Neo, john mayer, bobby brown, NSYNC, Ludacris and 50 cents. Game, Turn Against Boys, Miley Cyrus, lenny kravitz, Lady Gaga, Justin Bieber and R kelly, christina aguilera.
He is a singer with the most fans in the world, an outstanding philanthropist and humanitarian. He has donated $300 million to charity, making him the world's largest individual donor to charity (only supporting 39 charitable relief foundations around the world). Unfortunately, Michael Jackson, as a once-in-a-century artist, a philanthropist who did countless good deeds, was also vilified by the media and deeply misunderstood by the world. His skin color turned white (skin melanin was unstable due to vitiligo and lupus erythematosus), which was reported by the media and caused controversy. He has been married twice, in 1994 and 1996 respectively, and has three children. On June 25th, 2009, local time in the United States, Michael Jackson fell into a deep coma due to overdose of propofol and other drugs, and was declared dead that afternoon at the age of 50. In his lifetime, the 10 comeback concert originally scheduled to start on July 3rd of the same year was sold out within a few hours, and then 50 concerts were added, with a total of1150,000 tickets. All the 40 additional concerts were sold out within four hours of ticket sales, but due to Michael Jackson's unexpected departure, the concert failed to start as scheduled. His death shocked the whole world and made hundreds of millions of fans cry. His on-site memorial service attracted more than 3 billion viewers around the world, and the ratings set a Guinness record.
201010/On October 25th, Forbes magazine published the latest issue of "Income List of Dead Celebrities", and Michael Jackson topped the list with $275 million. With the sales of records, the global screening of the concert documentary "This is it", the licensing of music copyright and the release of new music albums, Jackson earned a lot of money behind the scenes. In 2009, it ranked third in the ranking with US$ 90 million, and first in 20 10. According to Forbes magazine, the income of Jackson alone exceeds the combined income of other 12 celebrities on the list.