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Navi (impersonator)
Navi is a Trinidadian-born Michael Jackson impersonator, Michael Jackson tribute artist and actor based in England. Navi starred as Jackson in ''Michael Jackson: Searching for Neverland'', a 2017 American television biopic. Early life Navi was born on February 4, 1976, in Trinidad & Tobago. He moved with his family to London where he took a liking to pop music, including Michael Jackson, Elvis Presley, Bob Marley etc. Career In 1992, after seeing him perform, Jackson began hiring the young impersonator on several occasions as a decoy, and for the promotion of world tours and albums such as ''HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I'', ''Invincible (Michael Jackson album), Invincible'' and ''Thriller 25''. 2003 In 2003, Michael Jackson invited Navi to perform at his 45th birthday concert at the Orpheum Theatre (Los Angeles), Orpheum Theatre in Los Angeles, to which Navi agreed. He performed at the venue in front of an audience of 2,000 fans, with Jackson in attendance, performi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pop Music
Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form during the mid-1950s in the United States and the United Kingdom.S. Frith, W. Straw, and J. Street, eds, ''iarchive:cambridgecompani00frit, The Cambridge Companion to Pop and Rock'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), , pp. 95–105. During the 1950s and 1960s, pop music encompassed rock and roll and the youth-oriented styles it influenced. ''Rock music, Rock'' and ''pop'' music remained roughly synonymous until the late 1960s, after which ''pop'' became associated with music that was more commercial, wikt:ephemeral, ephemeral, and accessible. Identifying factors of pop music usually include repeated choruses and Hook (music), hooks, short to medium-length songs written in a basic format (often the verse–chorus form, verse–chorus structure), and rhythms or tempos that can be easily danced to. Much of pop music also borrows elements from other styles such as rock, hip hop, urban contemporary, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thriller (song)
"Thriller" is a song by American singer Michael Jackson. It was released by Epic Records on November 11, 1983 in the United Kingdom and on January 23, 1984, in the United States, as the seventh and final single from his sixth studio album '' Thriller''. "Thriller" is a disco song featuring a repeating synthesizer bassline and lyrics and sound effects evoking horror films. It includes a spoken-word sequence performed by the horror actor Vincent Price which begins at the 6:33 mark on the music video and 4:25 in the album version. It was produced by Quincy Jones and written by Rod Temperton, who wanted to write a theatrical song to suit Jackson's love of film. Jackson decided to release "Thriller" as a single after ''Thriller'' left the top of the ''Billboard'' 200 chart. The "Thriller" music video, directed by John Landis, depicts Jackson turning into a zombie and dancing with a horde of them. It has been named the greatest music video of all time by various publications and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cultural Depictions Of Michael Jackson
Culture ( ) is a concept that encompasses the social behavior, institutions, and norms found in human societies, as well as the knowledge, beliefs, arts, laws, customs, capabilities, attitudes, and habits of the individuals in these groups.Tylor, Edward. (1871). ''Primitive Culture''. Vol 1. New York: J. P. Putnam's Son Culture often originates from or is attributed to a specific region or location. Humans acquire culture through the learning processes of enculturation and socialization, which is shown by the diversity of cultures across societies. A cultural norm codifies acceptable conduct in society; it serves as a guideline for behavior, dress, language, and demeanor in a situation, which serves as a template for expectations in a social group. Accepting only a monoculture in a social group can bear risks, just as a single species can wither in the face of environmental change, for lack of functional responses to the change. Thus in military culture, valor is counted a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Jackson Impersonators
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Living People
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Suzanne De Passe
Suzanna Celeste de Passe (born July 19, 1946, 1947 or 1948) is an American businesswoman, television, music and film producer. De Passe serves as the co-chairwoman of de Passe Jones Entertainment Group. Biography Early life and education De Passe was born in New York City to a Harlem born mother of Jamaican descent and a father of Haitian and French descent. Raised in Harlem, De Passe attended New Lincoln School and graduated from Syracuse University in 1968. Career De Passe began her career in show business at the Cheetah nightclub in New York City. Through her friendship with Cindy Birdsong, who replaced Florence Ballard as a member of The Supremes in 1967, she began working at Motown as creative assistant to company founder Berry Gordy. Early in her career, de Passe developed The Jackson 5's wardrobe and the act they took on the road. She was instrumental in taking the record label to television with a host of notable specials, including ''Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lifetime (TV Network)
Lifetime is an American basic cable channel that is part of Lifetime Entertainment Services, a subsidiary of A&E Networks, which is jointly owned by Hearst Communications and The Walt Disney Company. It features programming that is geared toward women or features women in lead roles. , Lifetime is available to approximately 63,000,000 pay television households in the United States, down from its 2011 peak of 100,000,000 households. As of November 2023, Lifetime has garnered nominations for 63 Emmy Awards, eight Golden Globe Awards and 20 Critics' Choice Movie Awards. History Predecessors There were two television channels that preceded Lifetime in its current incarnation. Daytime, originally called BETA, was launched in March 1982 by Hearst-ABC Video Services.(June 15, 1983Hearst-ABC, Viacom in Pact. New York Times. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Super Bowl XXVII Halftime Show
The Super Bowl XXVII halftime show took place on January 31, 1993, at the Rose Bowl (stadium), Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, as part of Super Bowl XXVII. The show was televised nationally in the U.S. by NFL on NBC, NBC. In an effort to increase its profile after being Counterprogramming (television), counterprogrammed by an ''In Living Color'' special the previous year, the show featured a performance by Michael Jackson. The performance was successful in its goals, causing viewership of the Super Bowl to increase between halves for the first time in the game's history, with an audience of 133.4 million viewers in the United States. It is the most viewed half-time performance in the United States before Nielsen Holdings , Nielsen started to include out-of-home viewers in their totals in 2020; Kendrick Lamar's performance during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show in 2025 had 133.5 million viewers counted domestically, including out-of-home viewers in 48 states. The show, along wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HIStory World Tour
The ''HIS''tory World Tour was the third and final worldwide solo concert tour by American singer and songwriter Michael Jackson, covering Europe, Asia, Oceania, Africa and North America. The tour included a total of 82 concerts spanning the globe with stops in 57 cities, 35 countries on five continents. The tour promoted Jackson's 1995 album '' HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I''. The second leg also promoted the remix album '' Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix''. The tour was attended by over 4.5 million fans and grossed over US $165 million making it the highest-grossing tour of the 1990s by a solo artist. Overview The tour was announced on May 29, 1996, and marked Jackson's first concert tour since the Dangerous World Tour ended in November 1993. Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania (1996) Jackson's debut concert for the tour, performed at Letná Park in Prague, was one of the largest single attended concerts in his career, with over 125,000 people. On Oc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dangerous World Tour
The ''Dangerous'' World Tour was the second world concert tour by American singer Michael Jackson and was staged to promote his eighth studio album '' Dangerous.'' The tour was sponsored by Pepsi-Cola. All profits were donated to various charities including Jackson's own Heal the World Foundation. The tour began in Munich, Germany, on June 27, 1992, and concluded in Mexico City, Mexico, on November 11, 1993, playing 69 concerts in Europe, Asia and Latin America. Jackson performed in stadiums across the world with all his concerts being sold out in countries in Asia, Latin America, and Europe. The tour grossed over $100 million (equivalent to $ in ) and was attended by up to 3.5 million people. The October 1, 1992, concert in Bucharest was filmed for broadcast on the HBO network on October 10. Jackson sold the film rights for the concert for $20 million (equivalent to $ in ), then the highest amount for a concert performer to appear on television. The special, '' Live in Buchar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bad (tour)
Bad was the first solo concert tour by the American singer Michael Jackson, launched in support of his seventh studio album ''Bad (album), Bad'' (1987). The 123-show world tour began on September 12, 1987 in Japan, and concluded on January 27, 1989 in the United States, and sponsored by soft drink manufacturer Pepsi. It grossed a total of $125 million, making it the second List of highest-grossing concert tours#Tours (1981–1990), highest-grossing tour of the 1980s after Pink Floyd's A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, and earning two new entries in the ''Guinness World Records'' for the largest grossing tour in history and the tour with the largest attended audience. It was nominated for "Tour of the Year 1988" at the inaugural International Rock Awards. At the end of the Bad tour, Jackson made a public statement that he intended for it to be his last as a touring artist, as he had plans to transition to filmmaking; however, it was followed by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jennifer Batten
Jennifer Batten (born November 29, 1957) is an American guitarist who has worked as a session musician and solo artist. From 1987 to 1997, she played on all three of Michael Jackson's world tours, and from 1999 to 2001, she toured and recorded with Jeff Beck. Batten has released three studio albums: her 1992 debut, '' Above Below and Beyond'' (produced by former Stevie Wonder guitarist Michael Sembello), the worldbeat-influenced '' Jennifer Batten's Tribal Rage: Momentum'' in 1997, and '' Whatever'', which was released on CD and DVD in Japan in 2007 and worldwide in 2008. Early years Batten began to play guitar at the age of eight when her father bought her a "killer red and blue electric". Her early influences were the Beatles, B.B. King, Lightnin' Hopkins, and Jeff Beck. Batten started to experiment with the two-handed tapping technique in 1978, having been inspired by Guitar Institute of Technology classmate Steve Lynch (who ended up playing for the band Autograph) while at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
