Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958 the eighth of ten children of a working class African American family in Gary, Indiana, an industrial suburb of Chicago. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a devout Jehovah's Witness, and his father, Walter Joseph "Joe" Jackson was a steel mill worker who performed with R & B group, The Falcons. Jackson has three sisters Rebbie, La Toya and Janet, and his five brothers: Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Randy. A sixth brother, Brandon, died immediately after birth.
Jackson has a difficult relationship with his father, Joe. Joseph admitted in 2003 that Jackson was regularly beaten as a child. Jackson said he was abused physically and emotionally during exercise relentlessly, although he also credited his father with a strict discipline plays a major role in its success. Jackson first spoke publicly about the abuse of his childhood in an interview with Oprah Winfrey, which aired in February 1993. He admits that he often cried from loneliness and he vomited into the side of his father. Jackson's father also testified that he insulted Jackson, says he has a big nose several times. In fact, Michael Jackson's dissatisfaction with his performance, nightmares and sleep disturbance, a chronic tendency to remain hyper-compliant, especially with his father, and remained like a child throughout his adult life many ways consistent with the effects of chronic abuse he experienced as a young child.
In an interview with Martin Bashir, and then included in the show's 2003 Living with Michael Jackson, Jackson admitted that the illness of her father when she was little, but remains a "genius" because he demanded a strict discipline his father played a major role in its success. When Bashir has rejected the statement positive and kept asking about the beatings, Jackson put his hand to his face and object questions. He recalled that Joseph sat in a chair with a belt in his hand when he and his brothers to practice, and that "if you do not do it the right way, he'll rip you, really you."
In 1964, Michael Jackson and Marlon joined the Brotherhood, a group formed by brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and as backup musicians playing congas and tambourine. Jackson began to run later, choirs and dance. When he was eight years, Jackson has begun to share the song with his brother Jermaine, and the group's name was changed to the extent Jackson Band tour of the Midwest 1966-1968, which often appear in a string of black clubs known as name Chitlin 'circuit ", where they often opened stripteases and measurements of other adults. In 1966 they won a local talent contest with renditions of hits from the Motown and James Brown "I Got You (I Feel Good)", directed by Michael.
The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including "Big Boy" at the local Steeltown label in 1967 before signing with Motown Records in 1968. Rolling Stone magazine later described the young Michael as "magic" with "extraordinary musical gift," writes that he "has quickly become the main switchboard and singer." graphic recording of the group when the first four singles ("I Want You Back," "ABC," "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There") peaked at a number of BillboardHot 100. Between 1972 and 1975, Jackson made four solo studio albums with Motown, among them Got to Be There and Ben, was released as part of the Jackson 5 franchise and produced hit singles such as "Got to Be There "" Ben "and the remake of Bobby Day's" Rockin 'Robin. " This turnover of the group began to decline in 1973, and the band members under strict Motown angry refusal to allow them creative control or input. Although they scored several top 40 hits, including discosingle Top 5 "Dancing Machine" and 20 hits "My Love", the Jackson left Motown in 1975.