Michael Jackson

Michael Joseph Jackson (Indiana, 1958-Los Angeles, 2009), was a singer, composer and performer of American pop music and its variants. He was known as "The King of the pop" and he was included in the Guinness World Records on many ocasions, because of reasons as, to be the most successful artist of all time with nearly 750 million albums sold, more weeks at number 1 on the list of albums in the United States, with Thriller, during 37 weeks, the most successful video, the animator best paid of all time (125 million in 1989)...
He began his career with his brothers in the band "The Jackson 5" to mid-1960. In 1971, he began his solo career, but he remained himself with the band of his brothers. Because of the extraordinary impact of his album Thriller (1982), the best selling album of the music history, he became the biggest start in pop music at that time.
The 25 of June, in 2009, the singer died of a cardiac arrest. Coroner's Department Los Angeles Country, said that his death was a homicide.
This is one of his most popular videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLIh4ebtUuY