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Michael Joseph Jackson was born in Gary, Indiana. He is the seventh of nine children.
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"There will never be another person in life, another singer, another legend like Michael Jackson".
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He debuted as a singer with his brothers with "The Jackson Five".
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While still singing with The Jackson 5, Michael Jackson achieves his first solo album, "Got to Be There, thus launching his solo career.
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Jackson's first adult album is released, "Off the Wall" produced by Quincy Jones, who sold 11 million copies making him the first solo artist to place four singles on the top 10 list.
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He releases the album "Thriller", which wins a record of eight Grammy Awards and becomes the best-selling album of all time, selling 50 million copies worldwide.
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He buys ATV Music - a company with the rights to the songs of John Lennon and Paul McCartney - for $47.5 million and writes with Lionel Richie "We Are The World". The song was produced to raise money for hunger victims in Africa.
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Jackson reveals during a television interview that he inherited a disease that causes his skin pigmentation to disappear. He is also accused of having committed sexual abuse against his 13-year-old son, but they reach a judicial agreement.
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Married to Lisa Marie Presley, daughter of Elvis.
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He married Debbie Rowe, a 37-year-old nurse with whom he had two children, Prince Michael and Paris Michael Katherine.
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Scandal after he swings his third son, then nine months old, Prince Michael II, in the air from the balcony of a hotel in Berlin.
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A judge declare innocent to Jackson of sexually harassing a 13-year-old cancer survivor at his Neverland mansion in 2003.
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Michael Jackson dies days before the start of a tour for heart failure
