8 lesser-known facts about the “King of Pop” Michael Jackson
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Today marks iconic singer Michael Jackson’s 62nd birth anniversary. The legend, who passed away eleven years ago, will always be remembered as the irreplaceable ‘King of Pop’.
The huge fan-following Jackson still commands across the globe and his stardom is incomparable.
Here are lesser-known facts about MJ that you probably didn’t know:
1. Born in Gary, Indiana, near Chicago, on August 29, 1958, Michael Joseph Jackson was the eighth of ten children in the Jackson family living in a two-bedroom house.
2. His mother used to play clarinet and piano, while his father was a crane operator and played guitar with a local band in order to supplement the family’sh income.
3. Jackson is one of the best-selling music artists of all time, with estimated sales of more than 350 million records worldwide, making him the best-selling pop act of all time as well as the third-best-selling music artist in history.
4. In 1988, Jackson received an Honorary Doctorate of Humane Letters from Fisk University.
5. In 1992, he was invested as a titular king of Sanwi, a traditional kingdom located in the south-east of the Ivory Coast.
6. In 2009, the Lunar Republic Society named a crater on the Moon after Jackson.
7. In 2019, Forbes recognized Jackson as the top-earning dead celebrity each year since his death except 2012.
8. The star left his fans heartbroken on June 25, 2009, after he passed away due to cardiac arrest.
