Michael Jackson

biography
By: Aracely Leos, Lidia
Hernandez, Lupita Matamoros

Childhood
Michael Jackson was
born in 1958 in Gary,
Indiana.
He had nine brothers
When he turn five he
join the band of his
brothers and it was
called Jackson five. It
was discovered that
he could imitate the
dance steps of James
Brown and had a
distinct singing voice.

Michael Jackson in the

70s

Jackson did a solo

for the movie, Ben,
and it became a
number-one hit.
But the next few
years for the
Jackson 5 were
stagnant and by
1975 the group left
Motown, changed
the group name to
the Jackson's, and
signed to Epic.

Michael Jackson in the

80s

In 1982 Quincy Jones produced

another Jackson album,
Thriller, which became the
biggest hit in history with sales
reaching 53 million copies and
spawned many hit singles
In May 1982, during the
televised 25th anniversary of
Motown, Michael Jackson
performed his version of the
"moonwalk" dance which
quickly became his signature
along side his one whitesequined glove
By 1983 Michael Jackson was
the hottest pop star around.
He was hired as a spokesman
by Pepsi and did a sequence of
elaborate commercials

The accident

During 1984 he went on

tour with his brothers to
promote the Jackson
album, Victory. During
the tour he suffered an
accident on stage that
resulted in third degree
burns. Plastic surgery
was required to help
restore his appearance.

The rumors

Tabloid rumors became rampant as Jackson's fame

grew. It was rumored that Jackson had paid top dollar
for the bones of John Merrick, the Elephant Man; that
to maintain his high-pitched voice he was taking
hormone treatments; and to keep his youthful
appearance he slept in a hyperbaric chamber.
When rumors came out that he bleached his skin to
make him look whiter and altered his nose for the
album "Thriller" some felt Jackson was denying his
ancestral past.
Jackson later said he suffered from vitiligo, a skin
disorder which effects the skin's pigmentation,
causing large white blotches to appear.

New look

In 1987 the album "Bad" was

released and along with came
a significantly different looking
Michael Jackson.
Soon to turn 30, Michael
appeared to have gone
through dramatic facial
surgeries, changing not just his
facial features, but his jaw line
and skin color which by now
was almost a pale white.
His nose seemed to vanish into
the paleness of his skin, and
his eyes looked almost onedimensional, and void of the
normal surrounding skin.

His Autobiography

In 1988 Michael wrote

his first autobiography
and disclosed episodes
during his childhood and
in his relationship with
his unyielding father
that was abusive in
nature. By the end of
the 1980s, Michael was
crowned, "Artist of the
Decade," for his 'Thriller'
and 'Bad' albums.

His death

Michael Jackson died of

a lethal dose of a
powerful anesthetic and
the Los Angeles coroner
has ruled his death a
homicide, according to
court papers filed in
Texas.
He died at the age of 50
And he died at the
afternoon June 25,2009.