​Traits that Lead to MJ's Success in His Career

Jackson was a very talented person who paved his way as the icon that we all know today “King of Pops”. But despite the fact he is known for pops, he also contributed in a great different genres of music. He is of course widely known for his originality of pops, but never could one have guessed that he also sang R&B, Funk, Hard Rock; Dirty Diana, Rock, Gospel and Soul; Man in the Mirror, and even in Opera; Earth Song.

In the early 1973, he adopted a "vocal hiccup" in several of his songs we could deliberately hear Michael gulping and gasping for air in "It's Too Late to Change the Time" and "Shake Your Body". This vocal style promoted a certain emotion of excitement mingled with fear and sadness. But after the release of his album, "Bad" his vocal tone was interpreted to more of a lighter tone that resembled to the sound of the chorus.
Mainly, his career and fame as a King of ALL KINGS was due to the way he danced. He danced with the rhythm of the beat. His career as a musician was revolutionary; each dance steps were very modern and the complexity held within it was incredible. Its influenced have impacted all the music we listen today.

Here are some of the dance moves MJ had created during his life

​​​​The Tough Guy With Flair
"Beat It" and "Bad" videos are pretty similar. There are of graceful guys, acting tough and trying to take the whole "West Side Story" gang vibe into the modern age. And they're both showcases for Jackson's signature moves.

​The Synchronized Group Dance
No doubt about it, the "Thriller" dance is Michael's biggest and most enduring legacy. MJ wasn't the first to do a synchronized group number, but he made it a whole new art form.

​​The Anti-Gravity Lean
The "Smooth Criminal" video, originally part of Jackson's film "Moonwalker," gives us a more sophisticated, Gene Kelly-esque Michael. And while we once again see the requisite leg lift and Moonwalk, Michael made our jaws drop again with a new move. Not to burst any bubbles, but Michael's famous anti-gravity lean was done with the aid of special effects and wires in the video, but when he decided to take the trick on the road, big harness rigs just weren't going to cut it.  So Michael and his team created a (now patented) trick in which pegs would rise up from the stage, click into the heels of the dancers' specially designed shoes, and support them as they leaned forward a gravity-defying distance. Still, Michael did show off another move that was done without smoke and mirrors: the circle slide, a Moonwalk-style movement, with him pivoting and sliding supernaturally in a box shape. Totally smooth.

​The Moonwalk
It's not often a person can pinpoint the exact moment he became a superstar, but for Michael Jackson it was his performance on "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever." He performed "Billie Jean" and was propelled from being just another great singer to becoming one of the best entertainers of all time with one innovative new dance step: the Moonwalk. It was the first time he ever performed the move (inspired by great French mime Marcel Marceau's "Walking Against the Wind" skit). Michael was no longer human — he was legend.

​The Egyptian Flare
The nine-minute, star-studded (Eddie Murphy, Magic Johnson, and Iman) time-travel extravaganza "Remember the Time" was set in ancient Egypt and took the Bangles fluffy "Walk Like an Egyptian" move to new heights. Jackson incorporated his signature shoulder pops and spins with angular Egyptian hand and arm moves to amazing effect.

His creativity and uniqueness along with flamboyant apparel made it possible for Jackson to world-known throughout the globe.

However, even if Michael Jackson was born a genius he could have, by all mean, never earned the title as the “King of all Times” if he tried his outmost in the music industry where competition thrives to exist, making it possible for fame to last for only a quick second. But MJ’s fame as a celebrity lasted for more than decades because he tried his best in all of his performances. He endeavored to win all of his fan’s trust because he loved his fans and wanted to do his best by showing all of his efforts. If you see in the video that I posted in the other section, he was sweating from the top to the bottom. If he was a genius he didn’t need to work that hard up to the point where he was ‘sweating’. Yet, he did, a sign saying that even though he was brilliant, he was just like everybody else. In order to both preserve and conserve his body fit for dancing; he even made him unique and invincible to the rest of the musician’s population.

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Jackson's Success of His Musical Career

Anti-Gravity Lean