Facts

• He won 13 Grammy Awards.
• He was four years old when he began singing with his brothers Marlon, Jermaine, Jakie, and Tito in The Jackson 5.
• The largest television audience in U.S history watched him perform at half time during the 1993 Super Bowl.
• He has sold more than 300 million records worldwide.
• Jackson fathered two children with Deborah Jeanne Rowe -Michael Joseph Jackson Junior(also known as "Prince") and a daughter, Paris Michael Katherine Jackson. 
• His third child, Prince Michael Jackson II (nicknamed "Blanket"), was born the same year his father won his 22nd American Music Award For Artist of the Century. The mother's identity is unknown, but Jackson said the child was the result of artificial insemination.
• At the time of his death Jackson was rehearsing for his greatest comeback with 50 shows scheduled in London.