Michael Jackson's Top Songs and Awards

Michael Jackson (August 29, 1958 — June 25, 2009) was a singer, composer, dancer, and philanthropist from the United States. He is known as the “King of Pop” and is considered as one of the twentieth century’s most prominent cultural leaders.

His contributions to music, dance, and fashion, as well as his publicised personal life, made him a global icon in popular culture during the course of his four-decade career. Jackson impacted musicians from a variety of musical genres. He popularised sophisticated street dance movements such as the moonwalk, which he coined, and the robot through stage and film performances.

Who is Michael Jackson?

Michael Jackson Joseph was born on August 29, 1958, in Gary, Indiana. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family that lived in a two-bedroom Jackson Street house.

Katherine Esther Jackson (née Scruse), his mother, played clarinet and piano, hoped to be a country-and-western musician, and worked part-time at Sears. She belonged to the Jehovah’s Witnesses. His father, former boxer Joseph Walter “Joe” Jackson, worked as a crane operator at US Steel and played guitar with the Falcons, a local rhythm and blues band, to augment the family’s income. Joe’s great-grandfather, July “Jack” Gale, was a US Army scout who was also a Native American medicine man, according to family legend.

Michael was raised by three sisters (Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet) and five brothers (Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy). Brandon, Marlon’s twin brother, died shortly after birth.

Michael and Marlon Jackson joined the Jackson Brothers, a band created by their father that featured Jackie, Tito, and Jermaine, as backing musicians in 1964, playing congas and tambourine. Michael claimed that his father called him a “fat nose” and physically and mentally tortured him during rehearsals. He remembered Joe sitting in a chair with a belt in his hand, ready to punish any faults as he and his siblings rehearsed. Joe admitted to whipping Michael on a regular basis. Although whipping began to be considered abuse, Katherine stated that it was a typical practice to discipline children when Michael was growing up.

Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon denied that their father was violent and said that the whippings kept them disciplined and out of trouble, which had a greater influence on Michael because he was younger. Michael stated that he was lonely and secluded in his adolescence.

What are some of Michael Jackson’s Top songs?

Some of the popular songs of the late legend is as follows:

Billie Jean, Beat It, Who’s Lovin’ You, Goin’ Back to Indiana, State of Shock, Off the Wall, Enjoy Yourself, The Girl is Mine, Burn This Disco Out, Outside, I just Can’t Stop Loving You, The Edge of Heaven, One More Try, Rock With You, Careless Whisper, Morphine, I Knew You Were Waiting, The Way You Make Me Feel