Michael Jackson’s father Joseph Jackson took his last breath at 89. 

Confirming the death of Joseph, Raymone Bain, Michale Jackson’s former spokesperson, said she spoke to Randy Jackson, Joseph Jackson's son and the cause was reportedly pancreatic cancer.

All nine of his children would have a hand in producing major hit records, and Michael Jackson would become the most popular recording artist of the 1980s.

He found work in a steel mill and gradually shifted his show business dreams toward his children. As the family grew to nine children - an infant son died in 1957 - they all occupied a tiny house on, as fate would have it, Jackson Street.

Jackson recognized that his sons had talent, and he soon began to groom them into a musical act.

Jackson told a leading daily in 1984, "When I found out that my kids were interested in becoming entertainers, I really went to work with them.”

Well, those words spoken at that time turned out to be true for his kids. What do you say?

May his soul rest in peace.