Michael Jackson Presentation

~I was born to Katherine and Joe Jackson on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana ~I was the 7th born of all 9 kids ~I lived in a poor neighborhood for african-american people when I was a child ~My father was very strict and beat me and my brothers whenever we did something wrong ~I wasn't allowed to play with other kids outside of school, so I was bored often ~Both my parents were musically talented so I had music in my blood ~My mom played the piano, clarinet, and could sing, but that stopped after she got polio in her childhood ~My father was in a Rythem & Blues band (R&B) ~I would listen to them play whenever they practiced at home

5 of the kids with their father

~My first band, the Jackson 5, started when I was only 7! ~The back story behind the start of this band is quite interesting, so I'm going to tell it to you ~Well, it all started when my brother Tito secretly used my father's guitar ~At that time we didn't know my mother listened to him play, so we thought that we had a secret from our parents ~My father finally found out that Tito used his guitar, when he came home to the strings broken ~My dad was about to punish him, but my mother came in and said he had great talent ~Tito played for our father and he also saw talent ~Soon my dad formed a band with me, my brothers Tito, Marlon, Jermaine, and Jackie ~We entered many talent competitions and won most of them ~Soon we started doing shows at resterants ~Gladys Knight and the Pips introduced us to Motown ~We also got to be on t.v ~The Jackson 5 got so famous that we couldn't attend public school

Jackson 5

~Well some might say that my adult life was a little odd, well I agree, somewhat ~I did own a house in California called Neverland Valley Ranch ~On the property of that house I had a zoo and amusement park ~In the zoo I kept my pets ~My pets were no mere dog, cat, or fish; my pets were a monkey named Bubbles, and boa constrictor named muscles, a giraffe named Jabar, and llamas, peacocks, and many other exotic birds ~I had this1 of a kind house to experience the childhood I never had ~In 1994 I married Elvis Presley's daughter, Lisa Marie Presley, but we got divorced in 1996 ~I soon remarried. Later in 1996 I married Debbie Rowe ~Together we had two kids; Prince Michael Joseph Jackson and Paris Michael Katherine Jackson ~In 1999 Debbie and I divorced ~I did have another son named Prince Michael Joseph Jackson II, but his mother is not publicly known ~I did have a lot of plastic surgery ~I also had boys over at my house for sleepovers and I watched cartoons ~I can't believe I just told you that

Michael looking at who knows what

~After Jackson 5 I wanted to go solo ~I produced a few albums at first, but they weren't that successful ~I officially left the Jackson 5 in 1978 ~In my solo days I played the scarecrow in the film "The WIz" ~My album "Off the Wall" was what took me to stardom ~I had always had a dream of producing the best selling album ever ~Well, my dream came true in 1987 when I produced "Thriller" ~Everything just kept getting better and better ~One year even I won 8 grammies in 1 night ~I also got in the book of world records for the 8 grammies that I achieved ~ I also got into the Rock N' Roll Hall of Fame for the Jackson 5 and my solo self ~My trademark was a sequined glove I wore on my right hand, which is what I am wearing now ~As I continued to make music, my fame grew

Michael with his signature sequin glove