Shared from Brad Sundberg @InStudioWithMJ on Twitter 13 years ago today [Jan 9, 2002], Michael Jackson won the Artist of the Century Award at the American Music Awards. The event took place at the Shrine Auditorium, in Los Angeles and MJs friend, comedian Chris Tucker presented him with the award. This gave Michael a grand total of 26 American Music Awards throughout his career. But, as raresoul later reported, the show was controversial, because Dick Clark, who produced the American Music Awards, wanted Michael Jackson to perform. But then Grammy chief Michael Green had insisted that artists who had performed at the American Music Awards would not allow to be performed on the Grammy stage. The dispute led to a $10 million lawsuit against the Grammy’s. Read more at: raresoul/2013/01/09/michael-jackson-named-artist-of-the-century-at-29th-annual-american-music-awards-2/ - Kerry
Posted on: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 09:22:35 +0000
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