Before he won 12 Grammy Awards, before he dazzled billions of fans around the world with his amazing talent as a performer, before he impacted on millions of lives with his ongoing humanitarian efforts, before all of that, he was one other thing, he was my brother. Hi! I’m Janet Jackson, and I am pleased to be here tonight to honor the man I love and admire as an artist and a person, my brother Michael Jackson. The Grammy Legend Award is given for ongoing contributions and influence in the recording field but nowhere does it tell you what to do to become a legend. If I were to write a book of instructions, using my brother’s as a guide, it would read something like this.

How to Become a Legend:

Let’s start with the present and work our way backwards. Take a big chance with a live 90-minutes prime-time interview with Oprah Winfrey. “Join me for the worldwide television event of the year.” Put on a spectacular Super Bowl halftime show before the largest audience in TV history. Use your extraordinary popularity, influence, time, energy, money and heart to help children heal the world.

Create a two-a-half-hour standing-room-only concert event from Bucharest Romania that gives HBO the largest audience rating in cable history.

Release “Dangerous” and watch it enter the charts at number one and become the world’s biggest selling album of 1992.

Record “Bad” and watch it become the second largest selling album ever. Stun the Motown 25^th anniversary audience with a legendary performance that leaves everyone moonstruck.

Record “Thriller” and watch it become the number-one largest selling album of all time. Bring your enormous talent to the creation of new-style videos that one really mini-movies with imaginative stories and mind-blowing effects.

Capture and armful of eight Grammys the most ever won in a single year. Tour the world over making new friends everywhere you go. Break all exciting attendance records while visiting over 30 countries, many of them more than once and bring the best in contemporary concert entertainment to over 10 million loving fans.

Create an international anthem with a superstar cast that become the top-selling single of all time. Make a serious effort to have four consecutive number-one hits before graduating from grade school.

It helps to have brothers who are very musical. And it doesn’t hurt to have a little sister who loves you very much. But first and foremost if you’re going to be a true legend try to be born with a lot of talent and the willingness to take the plunge. So to sum it up……

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