" Michael at a very young age had a lot of “know” to be able to sing a song like that! I wrote the song (Who´s Loving You) and I thought I sang it! 2 years later, here comes this little kid and he’s 10 years old!! I go, "Now wait a minute, he's too young to be riffin like that!" When he did one of Smokey's songs - 'Who's Lovin' You?' - at the end of it he would do this riff, and he did a riff that went off into a little minor bluesy kind of thing. Here's a little boy who could sing his little ass off. When he performed, he did moves that only a seasoned veteran like James Brown could handle.
" What do I Michael remember for most is his laugh, his charisma, his charm. The only musician to whom I can compare him is Mozart."
Because it is not natural for a child to sing that way, with such depth, with so much emotion with such interpretation, intensity, purity and sensitivity. "If he j ust had done only what he did as a child, he would be a genius, for whom he is now considered. Great performance of this James Brown funk classic:īig Boy - first song that Michael Jackson ever recorded in December 1967 when he was 9 years old: I told somebody, 'This kid is weird every time I look at him he's watching me.' We started calling him an old soul in a young body." Even when he was auditioning, he was looking at me all the time. In the studio, producing those records, he was always in the control room, sitting with me. "Smokey had written that from his own pain and creativity, and Michael sang it better than Smokey. He had a depth that was so vast, it was just incredible.” He was the classic example of understanding everything. He was nine years old when the Jacksons auditioned for me. He was just so knowledgeable about life." At 9 years old, when I first started working with him, he seemed to me like he had been here before. "As a kid Michael was always beyond his years, he was an innovator, he was a genius at what he did. We could not believe this old man in this young kid's body." when he did the song "Who's Loving You" the Smoky Robinson song, he sounded like he had been living that song for 50 years. And as the other kids might be playing with each other, hitting each other, doing something, Michael was always focusing on whatever I or anybody else was saying about what they should be doing.
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"Michael was full of fun, but he was a studier. He had talent and creativity, which he fired into the stratosphere together with the level of fun. He raised his bar high and then overcome it. He learned from the best and tried to be even better. Pushed by his hunger for learning, the constant self- overcoming, after being the best. And yet he could dance, sing or play like anyone else - but he wanted to do better. How can a child impress me like that ? I t was such a strong sensation that I immediately forgot my doubts about the business of " child performers ' and rushed to create Michael and his brothers such conditions, which will enrich and expand their talent.Įven then he was very aware himself. Even then he radiated something so captivating that I have with it, frankly, did not board. I was lucky to I met him when he was nine years old. He was an artist who appears only once, period. "Michael Jackson wasn´t an artist who appears once every ten years, once in a generation or once in a lifetime.
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