Jackson's song Billie Jean (1983) is the first music by a black artist to air on MTV
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In 1993, at Oprah Winfrey's show he revealed that he suffered from Vitiligo and his skin started to change after the release of his song Thriller in 1982
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He was the first International pop star to perform in post-soviet Russia in 1993. He visited Moscow, two years after the fall of the Soviet Union
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He was so fond of animals that he took his pet chimpanzee Bubbles on a tour with him to Japan
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He has won 13 Grammy Awards and received 26 nominations during his career
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He holds a patent for a special shoe designed to allow dancers to lean forward beyond their center of gravity without falling
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