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He was born on August 29, 1958 in Los Angeles (California), and was the seventh of nine children.
Is known as the king of Pop because he was singer, songwriter and dancer -
After several years of training, five of the brothers start acting in public
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their first album "Diana Ross Presents the Jackson 5, with the successes "I Want You Back" and "I'll Be There," become number one
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Michael Jackson achieves his first solo album "Got to be there"
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His first album as an adult comes up "Off the wall" and four of his songs appear in the top ten list
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His album "Thriller" wins a record eight Grammy Awards and becomes the highest selling album of all time.
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Jackson and Lionel Richie write "We are the world", The song was produced to raise money for famine victims in Ethiopia. Then he has to pay $ 47.5 million for the rights to more than 250 songs written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney.
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Jackson tells during a television interview that he inherited a disease that causes his skin pigmentation disappear. Also is accused of rape
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He marries with Lisa Marie Presley and two years later they get divorced
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Launch onto the market "HIStory: Past, Present, and Future Book I" and on August the song "You are not alone" becomes the first pop music single to access the Billboard chart as a number
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Jackson shows his first son, Prince Michael II, when he is just a baby, on the balcony of a Berlin hotel and thousands of admirers watch him from the street
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A judge accused innocent Jackson of sexually harassing a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland mansion in 2003.He had been accused of getting him drunk and rubbing him.
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Jackson has a lot of financial problems since his trial so he close the house of Neverland and fires most of its employees after paying thousands of dollars in back wages to avoid a lawsuit by Labor department officials.
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Jackson dies with 50 years apparently from heart failure.
