Chieli minucci biography of michael jackson summary

The Jackson family has sold over million records together. The five brothers from Indiana were introduced to music as children by their father Joe Jackson, a former guitarist and now a seasoned manager. The Jackson Five, hired by Motown in , quickly became the hard wing of the label, the funkier one, but their child-voices made it an act for young and old.

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The first single, I Want You Back , a syncopated dance hit, sold two million copies, and began a series of uninterrupted chart hits, continued by ABC , The Love You Save , and from the romantic gospel I'll Be There by Barry Gordy, all three at the top of the charts and all above one million copies sold, the third even above three. These and those that came in the next two years were mostly written by the Perren - Mizell -Richards-Gordy quartet.

With Dancing Machine they adapted to the funky fashion. Loved by the crowds and deserving of moral organizations, they went through a bad time when they resigned from Motown. Reborn as Jacksons for Gamble and Huff, in they also began to write their own material, now less childish and even more danceable: Destiny was in fact their best album.

The growing technical prestige pushed Michael 12 years old at the time of the first hit to pursue a solo career with Got to Be There and Ben The second, Thriller Epic, , again under the supervision of Jones, gave him as many as six, including the title track by Rod Temperton , Billie Jean and Beat It , and became the best-selling album in the history of the music 51 million copies sold in 20 years, 37 weeks at the top of the Billboard charts.

The most revolutionary element of Thriller was the minute video directed by John Landis and choreographed by Michael Peters released in december Jackson's signature dance, the "moonwalk", was invented sometime in the s, and for a long time was identified with French mime Marcel Marceau because it featured in all his skits.

He began music early on, studying classical piano from the age of 5, and eventually switched over to guitar at 8.

In Jackson also provided the narrator for a Christmas album dedicated to the popular alien puppet ET, a task he fulfilled with a sensitivity, candor and innocence that conquered his grandparents, mothers and children. He is even credited with the authorship of We Are The World , a pathetic hymn of rock humanism. Jackson's success relied on the fluid and expansive, "white" vocal qualities, and the disco atmosphere not only the beat, but also the shrewd arrangements of Quincy Jones.