MICHAEL JACKSON

Michael Joseph Jackson (Gary, Indiana, August 29, 1958 - Los Angeles, California, June 25, 2009), known in the art world as Michael Jackson, was an American singer, songwriter and dancer of pop music and its variants. Known as the "King of Pop", he achieved nearly 80 records for different reasons and was included in the Guinness Book of Records on numerous occasions, for reasons including, among others, being the most successful musical artist of all. times, with about 750 million discs sold; the most awarded musical artist in history, with hundreds of awards, including 15 Grammy awards.

Michael Jackson announced his return to the stage with a tour that would be titled This Is It, however, almost twenty days before the start of the tour, on June 25, 2009, the singer died of cardiac arrest. The Los Angeles County Coroner's Department stated that his death had been a homicide, and his personal physician declared himself "not guilty" of involuntary manslaughter charges and paid bail for not entering prison, his trial was postponed for January 2011. The sudden death of the artist led to an avalanche of global grief, and even more than two billion people saw his public funeral on live television. In 2010, Sony Music Entertainment signed a contract with its family for 250 million dollars to retain the distribution rights of their albums and publish up to seven posthumous albums until 2017.