The ability to make decisions is precisely what led him outside his “school”, Motown Records, the company that had given birth as precocious talent and a member of the family band The Jackson 5.
“What do you do?” asked one day Ron Alexenburg, CEO of Epic Records, when he and his brothers were still bound by Berry Gordy company with a contract that bound them creatively. “Making my own music one day,” said Jackson, eager for freedom.
Thus came “more tense the moment” of his life, leaving Motown, and the conversion of The Jackson 5 in The Jacksons (a problem of rights prevented to continue using the previous name in another record).
that was also how they learned to produce their own songs hand the pioneering equipment of sound “Philadelphia soul” made up Leon Huff and Kenneth Gamble, and as Michael Jackson, a real sponge, he continued enriching their musical heritage.
All this knowledge, the innate talent and an obsessive passion for work, or rather, for perfection , crystallized in “Off the Wall”, an album that was hard to get into the radiofórmula and ended by placing four singles in the “top 10″ Billboard in a time when music was still very segregated by color.
in the first year sold six million copies. Today, it has certified 10 million albums sold only in the United States, 30 worldwide.
It was the album that “became black music in music for everyone,” recalls Pharrell Williams, and, most important of all: There would be “Thriller” without “Off the wall”
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