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Michael Jackson’s extraordinary musical career started at the age of five as the lead singer of the Jackson Five, alongside four of his brothers. These early days saw the Jacksons play the local clubs and bars near their hometown. They were soon discovered by another artist and got to audition for Motown in 1968.

Immediately after their signing they moved to California and the hits started rolling in. ABC and I’ll be there were among the No.1 hits in the US and they went on to record 14 albums.

In 1976 The Jackson Five became The Jacksons and they signed a deal with Epic with whom they went on to record a further six albums up until 1984. In 1977 Michael teamed up with Quincy Jones who produced his first solo album Off The Wall which became a huge success around the world and realised four No.1 singles in the US. But it was in 1982 that Jackson was to find true stardom as a solo artist with the release of Thriller. Selling 50 million copies worldwide and producing no fewer than seven No.1 singles, Thriller is the world’s largest selling album of all time. In conjunction with this, working with the best film directors and producers, Jackson used state of the art video technology and special effects to create a 14 minute film to accompany the title track of the album. Thriller led to Jackson winning 8 Grammy awards.

An album, Bad and a world tour followed in 1987 and in 1991 Jackson signed to Sony and released his fourth solo album Dangerous. In 1994 Jackson wed the daughter of Elvis Presley, Lisa Marie Presley. The marriage lasted only 19 months and they divorced in 1996. Following the release of his fifth album HIStory, Jackson married for a second time to a nurse, Debbie Rowe. Their first child, Prince Michael Joseph Jackson jr was born in 1997 and daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson was born the following year in 1998.

Recent years have revealed a darker side to Jackson’s life. Rumours of child molestation in 1993, an accusation denied by Jackson, led to an out of court settlement and currently the singer stands accused of a similar act committed at his ranch, Neverland, in Santa Barbara County. Other press stories surrounding his personal life and his obsession with plastic surgery and ever changing appearance, have kept Jackson in the spotlight for completely different reasons.

Career:

Five of the Jackson brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, formed the Jackson 5, an R&B musical act, in the mid 1960s. With Michael as the lead singer, the group built up a following and a buzz by playing at clubs and bars throughout the Midwest, and even winning an Amateur Night competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York. It is alleged that they were beaten and abused by their father if they performed poorly. The Jackson 5 signed their first recording contract with the local Steeltown label in 1967, and had a regional hit with "Big Boy" in 1968.

The Jackson 5 were discovered by both Gladys Knight & the Pips and Bobby Taylor & the Vancouvers, who brought them to Motown Records in 1968. Label head Berry Gordy bought out the Jackson 5's Steeltown contract and signed the group to Motown in March 1969. Gordy then moved the Jackson family to Los Angeles, California, and proceeded to turn them into international stars. In fall 1969, The Jackson 5 were presented to the public by Diana Ross and were officially launched as the next big Motown act. The group's first four singles, "I Want You Back" from 1969, and "ABC", "The Love You Save", and "I'll Be There" from 1970 all became #1 hits in the US. Later hits included "Mama's Pearl" & "Never Can Say Goodbye" (1971), "Lookin' Through the Windows" (1972), "Get It Together" (1973) and "Dancing Machine" (1974). Most of the Jackson 5 hits were produced by The Corporation™, a collective of songwriters and record producers including Gordy, Freddie Perren, Alphonzo Mizell, and Deke Richards.

With Motown Records, the Jackson 5 made 14 albums, and Michael also recorded four albums as a solo artist. Among Michael's early solo hits were "Got to Be There" (1971, his solo debut); and "Rockin' Robin", "I wanna Be Where You Are", and the #1 hit "Ben" (all 1972).

Michael Jackson's Solo career:

Off The Wall to Thriller

Michael Jackson's 1979 album Off the Wall was a worldwide hit and spawned the #1 hit singles and music videos "Rock With You" and "Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough". A ballad, "She's Out Of My Life" reached the top 10 in 1980.

In the 1980s, Jackson released a progression of solo albums of slickly-produced synthesizer-heavy pop. In what was perhaps the "Golden Age" of the video clip, some of Jackson's videos were virtually short films with considerable plots, impressive special effects, and featuring Jackson's distinctive dance style.

His Thriller album was released in 1982, produced 7 Top 10 hit singles, broke records and quickly became the world's best selling album (as of 2003 it has sold over 50 million copies). The "Billie Jean" music video, released to promote Thriller, became the first video by a black artist to be aired on MTV, and the "Thriller" short film, included with The Making of Michael Jackson's Thriller, became the world's best selling home video at the time.

"Billie Jean" and "Thriller", as well as "Beat It", were the three music videos released from the album, and have since become three of MTV's most significant videos in history, placing highly on several MTV and VH1 countdowns, and receiving substantial airplay on MTV2 to this day. The album's other singles were "Human Nature" and "P.Y.T. (Pretty Young Thing)", both of which were also hits, despite neither having music videos.

While performing "Billie Jean" during the Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever special on television on May 16, 1983, Jackson publicly performed the moonwalk (later his signature dance move) for the first time, stunning TV audiences. In January 1984 at the American Music Awards, Jackson was nominated for 9 awards and won a record 8 awards (tied by Whitney Houston's The Bodyguard soundtrack in 1994). In February at the Grammy Awards Jackson was nominated for 12 awards and won a record-breaking 8 awards (now equaled by Carlos Santana's 1999 Supernatural) – 7 for Thriller and 1 for his narrative on The E.T. Storybook. In May, Thriller was certified by the Guinness Book of Records as the biggest selling popular music album of all time. In addition in 1984, he was also awarded the H. Claude Hodson Medal of Freedom at the NAACP Image Awards, feted at the White House by President Ronald Reagan with the Presidential Special Achievement Award and in November was awarded a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

"We are the World" to Dangerous

Inspired by Band Aid, he was instrumental in organizing the single "We Are the World" (co-written with Lionel Richie) in 1985. "We Are the World" was sung by 44 different singers including Harry Belafonte, Cyndi Lauper, Diana Ross, Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder and sold 7 million copies in the United States, becoming the best selling single of all time (eclipsed by Elton John's "Candle In The Wind" in 1997), to raise money for USA for Africa – a charity working to raise awareness about and help starving people in Africa.

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Michael Jackson

Its number of michael jackson's album seling

1. off the wall is 15 million

2. thriller is over 56 million(biggest seling album ever)

3. bad is 25 million

4. dangerous is 37 million

5. histoty is 15 x 2 cd is 30 million

6. blood on the dance floor is 7 million(biggest seling remix album)

7. invincible is 10 million(michael say in reuters)

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