Michael Jackson – Best of all time (The king of pop music) A singer, a song writer and the king of pop music, Michael Joseph Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary, Indiana, to an African-American working-class family. He is also known as Michael Joe Jackson . Michael is the seventh child of his father and mother. During his childhood, he was a lead singer of the Jackson family’s popular Motown group, Jackson5. He started his career from the age of five along with his four brothers. At the very beginning Michael showed a huge talent and he, his brother Jermaine became the main singers of the group. In 1968, when Jackson was ten, Motown records signed the Jackson5.