![]() The 29-year-old likens Jackson’s impact on his family - which includes his high-profile musician brothers Zwai and Phelo - to that of former President Nelson Mandela. So recalls leading South African R&B artist Loyiso Bala, whose five South African Music Awards are a testament to the fact that he chose to follow the King of Pop. “Growing up as a young black kid in a township, you either dreamed of being a freedom fighter or being Michael Jackson. But all the attention started with Michael Jackson.” There are no drug dealers anymore, and there’s a massive social project. “This process to make Dona Marta better started with Michael Jackson,” Silva says. In the video, he can be seen dancing to the beat of hundreds of Olodum’s drummers and with cheering fans who reach out to touch him - and at one point burst through security and push him to the floor. Jackson shot scenes in Salvador, alongside throngs of people, accompanied by the Afro-Brazilian cultural group Olodum. “And he was - it sounds strange to say this - a normal guy.” “People were very surprised in the end, because they were expecting an extraterrestrial guy,” Silva says. Jackson arrived by helicopter but walked the streets of Dona Marta shaking hands and distributing candy. People got up early to clean the area, they prepared for him, they took out the trash.” Lee and his staff had banned journalists from the shoot because Dona Marta drug dealers didn’t want the attention, but Silva found a family that let her spend the night at their home and saw the favela residents washing the streets to prepare for Jackson’s arrival. When Jackson shot the video in Rio, Silva was a journalist for the daily newspaper O Globo. “The video is about the people no one cares about,” says Claudia Silva, press liaison for Rio’s office of tourism. In that context, Jackson’s choice of locale for his video made sense. “He displayed great concern for everything in the country, with poverty, with street children,” Sirena says. He’d been to the country twice before, once with the Jackson 5 in the ‘70s and again in 1993, when he played two concerts in Sao Paulo to 100,000 people each night.Īt the time, the concert promoter Dodi Sirena recalls a “sensitive” artist who asked for an amusement park to be reserved for his use, then invited children from the poorest public schools. At the time, Brazilians, like people the world over, saw Jackson as an idol. When Jackson came to Brazil to shoot the video, directed by Spike Lee, Rio’s local government became concerned that the singer would show the world an unflattering picture of poverty. ![]() Jackson shot two videos for “They Don’t Care About Us,” the fourth single from “HIStory: Past, Present and Future, Book I”: one in a prison and another in Dona Marta and Salvador da Bahia, a colonial Brazilian city known for its Afro-Brazilian culture and music. The change was spurred partly by Jackson’s 1996 visit to film the video for “They Don’t Care About Us.” ![]() Less than a day after Michael Jackson’s death, the mayor of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, announced that the city would erect a statue of the singer in Dona Marta, a favela that was once notorious for drug dealing and is now a model for social development. REUTERS/Phil McCartenįollowing is a roundup of international reaction to the pop star’s death and recollections of him. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Visitors watch a video of a performance at the Michael Jackson exhibit in the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles July 3, 2009. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. ![]() Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. ![]() If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice. ![]()
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