The singer Michael Jackson, 50, died Thursday after suffering a cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles, as confirmed by several local media. A call produced at 12.26 minutes in the afternoon hours in California alerted the medical services of the need for an ambulance at the house of the singer.
Apparently, the medical team moved into the home in the exclusive Bel Air neighborhood of Los Angeles, tried to resuscitate the singer before his transfer to hospital. The pop star arrived at UCLA teaching hospital in a state of deep coma and minutes after doctors certified his death.
Jackson had a poor health for much of his life in many episodes that required medical care, four of them when the trial was being held in 2005 in which he was accused of sexually abusing a minor. In 1995 he was admitted to a hospital in New York to fade during a rehearsal at a theater. Furthermore happened several times for the operating room to undergo cosmetic operations, while the white of his skin was due to vitiligo, a disease that causes depigmentation, as alleged.
However, his death has caught everyone by surprise to his followers, because, as he had announced it planned to revive his career again with a new tour that would begin next July 13 in London. Fifty concerts well into next year with tickets had been sold in its entirety.
From child prodigy to ‘king of pop’
Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana. Along with four of his brothers, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, Marlon and Michael, formed the group the Jackson Five. His first performance took place at a fair when Michael was only six years. The Jackson brothers took the first prize and began a successful career.
In 1972, Jackson made his debut solo in 1982 and released his album Thriller, which became a bestseller. Several of his songs slipped into the top of the U.S. music charts. The album sold 21 million copies just in United States and more than 27 million around the world.
A year later, in 1983, Jackson taught the world to the moonwalk, the flagship dance step in which slides backwards with the tip of his feet during a performance on U.S. network NBC.
In 1994, Jackson married Lisa Marie Presley, the only daughter of the king of rock, Elvis Presley, but their marriage ended in divorce after only two years. That same year, Michael was again married, this time with Debbie Rowe, and had two children before separating in 1999. The couple never lived together.
The singer leaves three sons, Michael Joseph Jackson Jr., Paris Michael Katherine Jackson and Prince “Blanket” Michael Jackson II.
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