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Michael Jackson, the “King of Pop” was an American born artist who is one of the greatest entertainers of the contemporary era. With is unique style of music and dance he lived and living in thousands of hearts all over the world.

His feet made feats that owed him Guinness records, 13 Grammy awards for the “Most Successful Entertainer of All Times, and the sales of his music albums over 750 millions records etc. He is the man of style with his black fedora always; his glove, shoes and his sole performance over the stage fascinated the people and made him well-liked all over the world.

In the year 1970, Michael Jackson focused on his solo career and won his first Grammy award at the age of 11 for the best R&B male vocal performance. Later in the year 1982, he released his album “Thriller” which made him to be a successful performer of all the time. Thriller remains the best endorsed album and it reached high selling record among all the music albums in the world. In the year 1983, Jackson pioneered his unique styles and one among them is the Moon-walk in the song “Billie Jean”. The chic Moon-walk became more popular and was made as an obligatory movement by the performers who try to impersonate Jackson.

The year 1984 showered the rewards and accolades to Michael Jackson. He received seven awards for the albums and shared in the record of the year award for “Beat It”. He broke Roger Miller’s record over night on winning eight Grammy awards who won six for his album “King of the Road” in the year 1965. In the year 1985, again his album Thriller won him another Grammy award in the category of best video film.

“We are the world” is the next release of Jackson in his hand with Lionel Richie in the year 1986. This album won him Grammy award for the song of the year category. This album is next to “Thriller” for best selling out all over the world. Two years later in 1989, Jackson and his team worked on a new release “Leave Me Alone” which follows up with another new album “Bad”.

These albums won him the short form video award. In the year 1995, Michael Jackson released the double album – HIStory. The first release from the album is “Scream”. “Scream” is the duet performance of Michael Jackson with his younger sister Janet Jackson. The second release of HIStory is “You Are Not Alone” which packed up a Guinness world record. “Earth Song” is the third release from HIStory and the song made him winning sole of UK.

Jackson in the year 1996 started his HIStory world tour and he rocked for about 14 months all over the world. He performed 82 concerts, in 58 cities in front of millions of people. He became the rock star of the year and unbeaten protagonist among the audience. Unfortunately Jackson got in to many controversies in later years which caused a little drop to his career. But “Michael did with music what they did in sport, television shows and politics. No controversy will erase his impact,” said civil rights leader Rev.

Al Sharpton. Now the “King of Pop” is no more but he still lives in form of his dance, his moon-walks, his style of singing in every kid trying to mimic his signature dance.