GREATN PEOPLE FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY PROJEC

1. Michael
Jackson
The King of Pop
1958-2009

2. Michael Joseph Jackson Scruse borns 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 1997, he threw Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the
Mix. Throughout the world it sold six million copies and
turned into the album of remixtures most sold of the history.
In June, 1999, Jackson took part in several charitable events.
It took part in a charitable concert organized by Luciano
Pavarotti in Modena, Italy, which collection was destined to
help the refugees of Yugoslavia and the children most
needed from Guatemala. At the end of this month it realized
two charitable qualified concerts "Michael Jackson and
Friends" in Germany and Korea.

13. • 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 ".

14. • 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.

16. • On November 15, 2006 received the price
Diamond in the World Music Awards, in London,
where he interpreted the song " We are the
World " close to a group of young people . Later
it took part in the honoring and James Brown's
public funeral, in The United States, celebrated
on December 30, 2006. At the end of this year,
the singer agreed to share the custody of his first
two children with his ex-wife Debbie Rowe.

17. • 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.

18. • In the morning of June 25, 2009, the artist suffered a cardiorespiratory
unemployment in his mansion rented of Holmby Hills. The members of the
service called to the hot line 911 to request aid them 12:The
paramedics, who came nine minutes later, found it without pulse or
breathing, for what they applied resuscitation to him cardiopulmonar and
they it moved the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center located in Los
Angeles to her 1:14 pm, but in spite of the efforts of the doctors he was
declared a dead man at 2:26 pm. 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.

19. • 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.

20. POSTHUMOUS WORKS
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. Meanwhile, the magazine Forbes qualified it in the
annual list of 2010 as the third one of the deceased celebrities that gain more
money, with 90 million dollars. Epic Records (of Sony Music Entertainment)
published on October 12 simply qualified " This Is It "; the same month there
threw a new double posthumous album of the artist on October
26, called, again This Is It, which assembles the musical tests for the tour. Added
to it, Kenny Ortega released throughout the world the movie called Michael
Jackson's This Is It two days after the premiere of the album, October 28, 2009.
Which treats on last musical tests for the homonymous tour before his death.
The album and the movie had together a collection of more than 250 million
dollars. During the sales of the artist. On March 16, 2010 a movement headed
by the Columbia/Epic Label Group (of Sony Music Entertainment) signed the
major contract in the musical industry with the inheritors of the singer for 250
million dollars for the rights of exploitation of ten musical projects at least until
2017, which would be the release date of the last posthumous album

22. A great person. A great artist. The king.
You have worked hard, but the project is a bit
scrambled.
I hope you could understand everything because you
have to
translate it into Spanish
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Andrea Aldao 2ºC.