New York celebrates Michael Jackson: A Tribute

During the “blackout” of 2003, in New York came on the road and stayed there the whole night. This phenomenon was seen again today, as Michael Jackson fans stayed the night to his memory alive. They were not mourning, but to celebrate his life. Masses, under the flashing lights of the world famous Apollo marquee in Harlem, where their heroes, often with the Jackson 5th

Afro-Americans were in full force at the legendary Music City, where artists such as James Brown and Aretha Franklin have to honor the first African-American artists cross reached incredible heights, for the success.

Within hours of Jackson’s death, T-shirts with vintage photos of the music legend sold for $ 20. A T-shirt vendor said that people were buying its goods, because “Mike is an icon to see here. Everyone wants one of them (T-shirts) or to remind him to give to their children.”

In the city that never sleeps, fans stayed the whole night, dancing and singing along Jackson hits. A young fan said: “We dance like it, we dance for him and in a way that we dance with him. We are here because of Michael. We love him. We want to show the world that we respect him very much. Despite all that he is still the King of Pop “.

For die-hard fans, it was a night to celebrate his life not to mourn his loss. For them, it did not matter that the singer had been in trouble, like a recluse in recent years, more frequently in the news in some controversy or scandal, as for his music. It is time that the inconvenient question of why and how the 50-year-old died, but the night was for celebrating his life and his contribution to the world of music.