Michael Joseph Jackson was an American singer, songwriter, dancer, and philanthropist. Dubbed the “King of Pop”, he is regarded as one of the most significant cultural figures of the 20th century.
Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana, on August 29, 1958. He was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family, a working-class African-American family living in a two-bedroom house on Jackson Street. His mother, Katherine Esther Jackson, played clarinet and piano, had aspired to be a country-and-western performer and worked part-time at Sears. She was a Jehovah’s Witness.
Jackson’s father, Joseph Walter “Joe” Jackson, a former boxer, was a crane operator at U.S. Steel and played guitar with a local rhythm and blues band, the Falcons, to supplement the family’s income. Joe’s great-grandfather, July “Jack” Gale, was a US Army scout; family lore held that he was also a Native American medicine man. Michael grew up with his three sisters namely Rebbie, La Toya, and Janet, and his five brothers called Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy. A sixth brother, Marlon’s twin Brandon, died shortly after birth.
Was Michael Jackson’s last words?
The alleged last words that Michael Jackson said, according to his doctor were “I can’t function if I don’t sleep. They’ll have to cancel it. And I don’t want them to cancel it, but they will have to cancel it.”
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