What Is Michael Jackson's Childhood

A baby was born on the evening of February 28, on the year 1983 and was named Michael Joseph Jandog. Michael was born to a middle class family in Dumaguete City, Negros Oriental, Philippines. His mother, with the maiden name Evelyn Hongcuay Candido came from a business related family from a town south of the Negros Island named Santa Catalina. His father, Concordio Jandog hails also from the southern part of the island on a town called Siaton and came from a family who owns many hectares of land. Michael’s family has six members consisting of his parents and three sisters namely Cordilyn, Kathleen, and Jeana. His parents left their native towns when they got married and moved to the capital city of Negros Oriental know as Dumaguete and worked

At an early age, Michael has shown undeviating passion for music, dancing and singing when he first saw and idolized Michael Jackson. He used to go to town held discos known as “bayle” and impersonate Michael Jackson with his dancing styles such as moon walks and struts. He is also an athletic boy. He joined and competed with sports teams, dance competitions either ballroom, modern dancing, ethnic, and more. On his secondary level, he was transferred to another private school called St. Louis School Don Bosco which was just beside his previous school. Since the school was a strict Catholic school, he was introduced to a religious lifestyle and was taught the proper ways of praying the different prayers. He memorized those prayers that in fact he could go through an entire mass and recite all prayers without the prayer books that were handed out by their teachers for them to actively participate. He even joined an organization called the Youth For Christ where he was introduced to the life of being the Lord’s servant. He became a facilitator and conducted youth camps in different places and recruited more youths to join the organization and live a Godly life. During his high school days,he was able to develop his singing skills when he joined the school choir. He was given a tenor position on the choir by his instructor who was a priest and they would sing each school mass. He also joined the school rondalla which is a group of students who played songs with an ensemble of sting instruments. The group was so popular that they were asked to serenade other Don Bosco schools in Cebu,Baguio,other local locations and