- Title: Singer Jermaine Jackson turns 70 on Wednesday December 11
- Date: 10th December 2024
- Summary: NEW YORK CITY, NEW YORK, UNITED STATES (FILE - JUNE 26, 2012) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) ***WARNING: CONTAINS FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY*** BAND THE JACKSONS PREPARING TO BE INTERVIEWED (L to R, JERMAINE, MARLON, JACKIE, TITO) VARIOUS OF THE JACKSONS SEATED (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: "The whole thing was to give a bit of yesterday today and just mix it. The challenge was to - how we were going to come on and what music we were going to do, what songs, because there is so much music and we have to fit it into 90 minutes, but we - we're very confident that we're going to - we know we're going to kill it." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, MARLON JACKSON, SAYING: "He's going to - Jermaine is going to throw down." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: "Exactly Marlon." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER,JACKIE JACKSON, SAYING: "He moonwalks so good, you got to watch him." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: "Jackie, don't start those rumours, come on. See, he's starting another rumor now. The hologram thing came from Jackie, now the moonwalk. Listen, I am a bass player, but I'm dancing with these guys." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, JACKIE JACKSON, SAYING: "But he can moonwalk." (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: ''I leave the moonwalking to Michael.'' JACKSON'S SEATED FOR INTERVIEW VIENNA, AUSTRIA (FILE - SEPTEMBER 8, 2009) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) JERMAINE JACKSON, WORLD MEDIA AWARDS CHIEF GEORG KINDEL AND DEPUTY MAYOR OF VIENNA, RENATE BRAUNER, ARRIVING FOR NEWS CONFERENCE LAUNCHING A TRIBUTE CONCERT FOR THE LATE MICHAEL JACKSON (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: "Michael didn't do things in a normal way. He always did things over the top and so we want to make this an incredible event and I'm very honoured to be here and to have just Vienna as the backdrop of this wonderful event because it could not have been a better place, I feel." ZWENTENDORF, AUSTRIA (FILE - JULY 24, 2009) (ORIGINALLY 4:3) (REUTERS) JERMAINE JACKSON LEAVING FOR SAVE THE WORLD AWARD AWARD CEREMONY WITH FAMILY JERMAINE JACKSON WITH CHILDREN AND AWARD POSING FOR MEDIA (SOUNDBITE) (English) SINGER, JERMAINE JACKSON, SAYING: "I feel very complete, very … I am satisfied, I'm very honoured… It is definitely a moment in time, what I mean by that is it is a moment that will never be forgotten. It will stay in our hearts and our mind as the Jackson family and I am pretty sure Michael was with us this evening, because it is very much of what he has been preaching from day one. And regardless of what the ridicule has been, the sensationalism, he is a human being, and I will say it again - he is a greater humanitarian. He is an incredible performer, but he is a greater humanitarian. That is what his legacy is going to be and that is what we are going to continue to do in a dignified fashion. To continue the legacy of Michael Jackson and the Jackson Five and the Jackson family. Period." JERMAINE JACKSON HOLDING THE AWARD BOTTOM OF AWARD READING 'JERMAINE JACKSON - ON BEHALF OF MICHAEL JACKSON’ JERMAINE JACKSON WITH CHILDREN POSING FOR MEDIA
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- Keywords: Jackson 5 Jermaine Jackson Michael Jackson
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U.S. musician Jermaine Jackson turns 70 on Wednesday (December 11).
Jackson is an original member of the Jackson 5, later known as "The Jacksons", and a brother of the late singer Michael Jackson.
He is the fourth child born to Joseph and Katherine Jackson and is part of the famed Jackson family, with his other siblings including Janet Jackson and the late Tito Jackson.
As well as performing with his brothers, Jackson has released his own music, with is fourteenth studio album, ‘I Wish You L.O.V.E’ coming out in 2012.
Jackson is known to TV fans too, he took part in ''Celebrity Big Brother 5'' in the UK in 2007. Other reality endeavors include when he and his then wife, Halima, also took part in '‘Celebrity Wife Swap'’ in 2014.
In his private life, Jackson has been married three times, and has seven children.
Jackson also supported his late brother Michael during Michael’s 2005 trial, which saw him acquitted on charges of molesting a 13 year-old boy at his Neverland ranch in California. Michael Jackson died of a cardiac arrest in 2009.
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