Michael Jackson, Childhood and Adolescence
THE EARLY YEARS OF MICHAEL JACKSON AND JACKSON 5 (1958-1975) Michael Jackson Teenager, Michael Jackson with child actor Jimmy Safechuck and Fans at the Kahala, Hilton Hotel, 1988 Fuente: Wikimedia Commons M ichael Jackson, the eighth son of a family of 8 children Michael Jackson, was born on August 29, 1958, the eighth of ten children in a working-class African American family in Gary, Indiana, an industrial suburb of Chicago. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was an ardent devotee of Jehovah's Witnesses, and his father, Walter Joseph "Joe" Jackson, was a factory worker steel is performed with a band of R & B (Rhythm and Blues) called the Falcons. Michael Jackson, had three sisters Rebbie, La Toya and Janet Jackson, and five brothers: Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon, and Randy Jackson. A sixth brother, Michael Jackson, named Brandon, died shortly after birth. The Difficult relationship between ...