Leo Messi 2

I have written about Leo Messi in this blog but I would like to write about him again. I like football and like you imagine I like the Barça team. I really enjoy when Messi has one of those days that he makes amazing things with the ball stuck at his feet. People called him the god of football and a commentator in the match where Leo scored 4 goals said that if god was a football player he would be Messi. The headlines in the newspapers all around the world put him like the number one, before Cristiano Ronaldo, who is from the Real Madrid team. He and Messi have been compared those days and people were arguing about who is better. Now, nobody has a doubt.

I read an article in the newspaper "El País" where the author said that Messi makes the other football players feel powerless, and that he make it to the journalists that try to write about him because of a headline that said "Messi exhausts the adjectives", and it is true because in very few days, people have said about him that he is a playstation, the best, similar to Maradona, god, etc. The author of this article, called David Trueba, told an anecdota about a football match where Leo Messi have to make a penalti and the goalkeeper when sees that is him who is going to do it ask a partner where he used to throw the ball. The partner answered that he used to throw the ball into the goal.

When the journalists ask him that if has been proved that he is better than Cristiano Ronaldo because of the football match Real Madrid -Barça (0-2, one of the goals was from Leo Messi) he says that it is the team which is better than the Real Madrid. He is a really meek person and always talks about the team not only about him alone.

As I have said before I think he is the best.

MICHAEL JACKSON PART 2

Today I am going to continue talking about Michael Jackson.

In 1991 Michael Jackson published the album "Dangerous" which sold 32 milions of copies around the world. His first single was "Black or White" that reached an enormous success. Another single that succed specially in Europe was "Heal the World". In 1992 he created the Heal the World Foundation to help the children who were victims of violence, poverty and illnesses. This year was the Dangerous World Tour, which profits were destined to the Heal the World Foundation. In 1993 he won the prize Living Legend for his contribution to the music.

This same year, Michael Jackson was interviewed by Oprah Winfrey. He talked about his childhood, his relation with his parents and brothers and about his carreer. He also denyed that he was making a treatment to be white, he just had en illness. This interview was followed by 90 milions of persons in the United States. But the summer of this year Michael Jackson was accused for child abuses by Jordan Chandler who was 13 years old and his father. He said that it was in Neverland where he used to received children. It was an scandal some children and families accused him of being a pedophile. Although all of this he was declared innocent. He supported that he was innocent all the time and after his death, Jordan Chandler admited that he was liying because his father told him to earn some money because they were poor.

Michael Jackson agreed with the family to give them 22 milions of dolars and he retired the accusation.

In 1994 Jackson got married with Lisa Marie Presley, the daughter of Elvis Presley. They met in 1975 but they got divorced two years after their wedding.

In 1995 he launched the double album "HIStory: Past, Present and Future" which was nominated to a Grammy. It sold more than 20 milions of copies around the world. The first single was "Scream" with his sister Janet Jackson, was nominated to a Grammy. In the end of 1995 Micahel Jackson was hospitalized because of an attack of nervous in a rehearsal. In 1996 he went on the HIStory World Tour which got 85 milions of dolars.

In 1996 he got married again with one of his nurses, Debbie Rowe with who he had two children, Michael Joseph Jr (known as Prince too) and Paris-Michael Katherine. They got divorced in 1999 but they were friends and Debbie Rowe granted the custody of the children to Michael Jackson. In 1997 he launched the album "Blood On The Dancefloor" with five new songs and eight remix. In 1999 he participated in some charitable events like one organizated by Pavarotti to help the children of Guatemala and the refugee of Yugoslavia, and one oraganizated by Michael Jackson called "Michael Jackson and friends" to the Cruz Roja and the UNESCO.

In 2001 he published the album "Invincible" and before this he made a concert in the Madison Square Garden to celebrate his 30 anniversary like singer, with his brothers and other famous artists. After this, he recorded "What more can I give" with some artits to help the victims of the terrorist attack of the 11th September, but it was not sold because Michael Jackson left Sony. He accused the president of Sony, Tommy Mottola, to be a racist and a gangster, which contract was canceled because he did not support the afroamericans artists. After, Sony did not renew the contract of Michael Jackson because he refuse to do a tour due to 2002. In this year was born the third son of him, Prince Michael Jackson II whom Jackson showed to the journalists out of the window with a blanket. He said sorry for this fact.

In 2003 Jackson granted some interviews to the journalist Martin Bashir that were recopilated in the documental "Living with Michael Jackson". In one of these interviews he appeared with a child of 13 years old called Gavin Arvizo who accused him of child abuses. Again, Michael Jackson said that he was innocent and was declared like that. In 2006 the authorities closed Neverland.

In 2009 he announced his return to the stages with new songs with the tour This Is It, but the 25th June he died because of a heart attack. The medical report said that the death was provoked by the combination of painkillers. The principal suspect is his personal doctor Conrad Murray. His burial was celebrated in the cemetery Forest Lawn in Los Ángeles.

Michael Jackson part 1

Today my sister is going to Madrid to see the musical of Michael Jackson with her boyfriend. She loves the musicals so she has seen a lot of them. This time my father wanted to go with her because he really likes Michael Jackson and when we were little he put us the clips of him in the tv and told us that he learned to dance with him. For his birthday, which was last March, we gave him the last Cd he recorded.

The musical, called "Forever King of Pop", in the preview was full of technical mistakes. Some microphones were off when the artists had to sing and on in very bad moments and a lot of shots very bad reflected in the screen at the stage. Despite these technical mistakes the show was saved by the dancers and singers that made an excellent work. The musical reviews the musical career of Michael Jackson with songs like "Bad", "Billie Jean" and "Black and White".

Michael Jackson, whose real name was Michael Joseph Jackson, was borned in Indiana in 1958. His mother, Katherine Esther Scruse, was a Jehovah's witness and his father, Joseph Walter "Joe" Jackson, worked in a factory and sang in a musical group called The Falcons. Michael Jackson had three sisters and six brothers. In 1964, he and his brother Marlon joined the band of their oldest brothers and Michael Jackson became the vocalist of the group. The band, called The Jackson Five acted in different clubs and in places like the famous theatre Apollo in New York. In 1968 Berry Gordy boss of the record company Motown Records decided to hire them after seeing a video of Michael Jackson with his brothers singing songs of James Brown. They launch their first single called "I want you back" which reached the first position in the list of Billboard Hot 100.

In 1972, when Michael Jackson was only 14 years old, he started his career alone with the album "Got to be there" but he did not leave the group with his brothers. But despite the success of Michael Jackson, The Jackson Five's sales fall. They wanted to write their songs but Gordy did not let them do that so they left Motown Records. In 1975 The Jackson Five signed a contract with Epic Records and changed their name for The Jacksons. Among 1976 and 1984 they launched six Cd and Michael Jackson wrote some of their songs.

In 1978 he play the rol of The Scarecrow in the film "El mago, remake" from the musical "El mago de Oz". There he met the producer Quincy Jones and Michael Jackson worked with him the next years. In 1979 he had to do a rhynoplasty because he had problems to breath and he hurted his nose dancing. He published the album "Off the Wall" this year with some songs written by Rod Temperton, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney. In 1980 he won a Grammy and three prizes AMA, one of them for the song "Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough".

In 1982 he launched his second album with Epic, "Thriller", which became the best seller in the world. It remained 80 weeks in the list of Billboard 2oo. The success of this Cd was also for the clip of "Thriller" which last 13 minutes and was directed by John Landis. In 1983 he acted in the special tv program "Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever" where he played "Billie Jean" and made his famous moonwalk leaving people amazed.

In 1984 Michael Jackson shoot a commercial for Pepsi but at the shooting he suffered burns because of an accident with the fireworks to simulate a concert. Pepsi gave him 1.500.000 dolars that he donated to the Brotman Medical Center of Culver, California, where he was assisted. This year, Michael Jackson was invited to the White House by the president Ronald Reagan to give him a special prize for his humanitary work. Also in this year he won eight Grammys and although he did not do a tour with this album, he did it with The Jackson, with which he earned five milions of dolars. He gave them to a different acts of charity.In 1985 he published an album with other famous artists like Stevie Wonder, Diana Ross, Tina Turner, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen among other singers, called "USA for Africa" with the song "We are the world" and won milions of dolars to help Africa.

In 1986 he was diagnosed an illness so his skin lose pigmentation and he had to avoid the light of the sun. He began to go on a vegetarian diet and suffered anorexia. Rumors went around him about everything. He stared in the film 3D Captain EO, directed by Francis Ford Coppola. After this, in 1987, he launched the album "Bad" but although it was a successful album, it did not reach the success of "Thriller". He started the tour called "Bad World Tour" and appeared in the Record Guinness when he fill up the Wembley Stadium. Part of the money he earned with this tour was for hospitals and orphanages.

In 1988 he published his first autobiography called "Moonlight", which was one of the best sellers of this year according to The New York Times. Also this year he published the film with the same title "Moonlight". Jackson bought a building in California where he put a theme park, a zoo and a cinema. His nickname was "The king of pop" because of his popularity, and George H.W. Bush appointed him artist of the decade. In the birthday of the comedian and singer Sammy Davis, Jr he sang "You were there" and was nominated to an Emmy.

RICKY MARTIN

Ricky Martin is a singer from Puerto Rico. He was born in 1971 and his real name is Enrique Martín Morales. He started his career like an artist when he was a child, but he became famous because of the music group Menudo. After five years of work with this group he left it and went to New York and then to Mexico where he started his career like actor in the soap opera "Alcanzar una estrella II". It succed so much that Ricky Martin launched a Cd called "Muñecos de papel" where he was one of the principle figures, and he started a tour with Sasha Sokol. The first time he appeared in the cinema was with the film "Más que alcanzar una estrella" where he met his ex girlfriend Paloma, with whom he was two years.

He recorded his first album alone in 1991 for Sony Music Entertainment, and he became famous in Ámerica Latina. In 1993 he recorded his second album "Me amarás" and he took a breath with the music. He came back to the series of the tv in the popular serie General Hospital. In 1995, with his third album "A medio vivir" Ricky Martin sold more than 600.000 copies in 6 months. With this album he became famous around the world with the song "Maria". Since then he was requiered in a lot of international events. He was one of the latin singers who sang in the Cd of The Olympic Games of Atlanta in 1996. He sang for the film of Disney Hércules too.

In 1998 he launched his album "Vuelve" where appears the popular song "La copa de la vida", which is the oficial song of the Football Champion of France in 1998. The next year, Ricky Martin won a Grammy with the song "Vuelve". After this success he records a new album with songs in English and Spanish and he appeared in the Billboard magazine in the number one of the list of the 200 albums.

In 2001 he launched his album in Spanish "La historia" which was number one of the Latin Chart during five weeks. This same year he published in English "The Best of Ricky Martin" that sold a milion of copies. In 2006 he recorded the Cd "Ricky Martin: Unplugged" with a DVD whose first single was "Tu recuerdo" which he sang with La Mari of the group Chambao. This year he sang "Bambú" with Miguel Bosé for the Cd of this last one "Papito". In 2007 he won the prizes "Antorcha de plata", "Antorcha de oro" y doble "Gaviota de plata". This year Ricky Martin started his Tour Blanco y Negro in the United States but he had to cancel some concerts because of some healthy problems. He reboot the tour in Europe.

At the end of this year he recorded the song "No estamos solos" with the italian singer Eros Ramazzotti. To Ricky it is a dream make real. After this he recorded his first live album in Puerto Rico called "Ricky Martin Live- Black and White Tour". In the DVD were unpublished images in the backstage and the full concerts of the year 2007. He won two Grammys for this album.

Ricky Martin was appointed person of the year 2006 for the Latin Academy of recording. He was chosen for being an acclaimed artist, a passionate humanitarian and a mundial figure of entertainment. The ceremony was in New York and he received a tribute where artists like Miguel Bosé, Sin Bandera and Juanes among other artists sang songs of him.

Apart from his prizes for his music, he is ambassador of Unicef and he has won two Grammys for the Ricky Martin Foundation of Puerto Rico, which was created to protect the children.

Now Ricky Martin has declared that he is homosexual. He hid it because he was afraid of losing fans and his advisorys told him that it was the best he could do. He has explained that in Twitter where he has received the support of the people and artists like Juanes who has told him "Todo mi respeto y cariño para ti, Ricky, sos un caballero". His ex girlfriends has show him their support too and one of them says that she wishes that people respect him. In my opinion it is a good thing that he said that because now the next singers won't be so afraid to say it like was Ricky Martin.