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Michael Jackson’s career as a performer began incredibly early. Although fellow musicians Stevie Wonder and Donny Osmond had been child stars, Michael was different: he immediately exploded onto the popular music scene and caught the public’s attention in a way that had never been seen before, thanks to his unmatched vocal gifts and performing skills. The intense focus on his career that characterized his childhood and adolescence later took a toll on him, it being at once both the making and—in the view of many—the breaking of him. Deprived of a normal childhood and subject to the exhausting demands of constant practice and the ambitions of his family, Michael was catapulted into the limelight at an age when most kids would be playing in the street or at school.

MICHAEL’S EARLY LIFE AND THE HISTORY OF THE JACKSON FIVE