Lin li ying biography of michael jackson

Singer, songwriter, producer

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Artfully clad in an outfit featuring his signature white socks, red leather jacket, and single, sequined white glove, Michael Jackson is widely recognized as one of the world’s top musical entertainers.

In barely two decades he has grown from a five-year-old boy-wonder singing with his brothers to a legendary solo artist who dazzles audiences worldwide with his deftness as songwriter, producer, video pioneer, showman, and vocalist par excellence.

With a knack for translating tunes from almost any genre—rhythm-and-blues, pop, rock, soul—into success, the prodigy defies all labels. Jackson is “a half-mad and extraordinary talent,” marveled Mikal Gilmore in Rolling Stone, with the ability to “combine [his] gifts in an electrifying, stunning way … that has only been equalled in rock history by Elvis