"I've always wanted to be able to tell stories, 당신 know, stories that came from my soul. I'd like to sit 의해 a 불, 화재 and tell people stories make them see pictures, make them cry and laugh, take them anywhere emotionally with something as deceptively simple as words. I'd like to tell tales to 옮기기 their souls and transform them. I've always wanted to be able to do that. Imagine that power. I sometimes feel I could do it. It's something I'd like to develop. In a way, songwriting uses the same skills, creates the emotional highs and lows, but the story is a sketch. It's quicksilver. There are very few 책 written on the art of storytelling, how to grip listeners, how to get a group of people together and amuse them. No costumes, no makeup, no nothing, just 당신 and your voice, and your powerful ability to take them anywhere, to transform their lives, if only for minutes. As I begin to tell my story, I want to repeat what I usually say to people when they ask me about my earliest days with the Jackson 5: I was so little when we began to work on our 음악 that I really don't remember much about it. Most people have the luxury of careers that start when they're old enough to know exactly what they're doing and why, but, of course, thats wasn't true of me. They remember everything that happened to them, but I was only five years old. When you're a show business child, 당신 really don't have the maturity to understand a great deal of what is going on around you. People make a lot of decisions concerning your life when you're out of the room. So here's what I remember. I remember 노래 at the 상단, 맨 위로 of my voice and dancing with real joy and working too hard for a child. Of course, there are many details I don't remember at all. I do remember the Jackson 5 really taking off when I was only eight 또는 mine. I was born in Gary, Indiana, on a late summer night in 1958, the seventh of my parents' nine children. My father, Joe Jackson, was born in Arkansas, and in 1949 he married my mother, katherine scruse, whose people came from Alabama. My sister Maureen was born the following 년 and had the tough job of being the oldest. Jackie, Tito, Jermaine. Latoya, and Marlon were all 다음 in line. Randy and Janet came after me. A part of my earliest memories is my father's job working in the steel mill. It was tough, mind-numbering work and he played 음악 for escape. At the same time, my mother was working in a department store. Because of my father, and because of my mother's own 사랑 of music, we heard it all the time at home. My father and his brother had a group called the Falcons who were the local R&B band. My father played the guitar, as did his brother. They would do some of the great early rock 'n' roll and blues songs 의해 Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Otis Redding, 당신 name it. All those styles were amazing and each had an influence on Joe and on us, although we were too young to know it at the time. The Falcons practiced in the living room of our house in Gary, So I was raised on R&B. Since we were nine kids and my father's brother had eight of his own, our combined numbers made for a huge family. 음악 was what we did for entertainment and those times helped keep us together and kind of encouraged my father to be a family-oriented man. The Jackson 5 were born out of this tradition we later became the Jacksons-and because of this training and musical tradition. I moved out on my own and established a sound that is mine."
