A performer who kept transcending boundaries

Jackson never let go of the mandate to transform. It became the great source of his art, and his biggest burden. Michael Jackson was not of this world. He always seemed to defy gravity, as a dancer whose signature move was so incomprehensibly graceful that it earned the extraterrestrial title "the Moonwalk," a singer whose tenor was high but strong, a rhythmic instrument that went as sweet and tender as a ...

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