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Back to Indiana for the Jacksons - MJVibe
On Saturday 11th May 2024, Marlon, Tito and Jackie performed at the brand new Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana in Gary.
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On Saturday 11th May 2024, Marlon, Tito and Jackie performed at the brand new Hard Rock Casino Northern Indiana in Gary. They haven’t been there since 2022.
But before their performance, the brothers were celebrated and honored with a new musical arts wing unveiled at Lake Ridge New Tech Middle School.
The new classroom also include a massive portrait paintings of Michael Jackson.
Marlon and Tito went to the school for the unveiling, among VIPs and fans, Evelyn LaHaie was present.
LaHaie is the one who named the boy band “Jackson 5”. Her “naming claim-to-fame” has been acknowledged by Michael in his published autobiography, as well as in numerous interviews father Joe Jackson did over the decades.
“Joe had been calling his performing sons ‘the Jackson Brothers,’ and I just thought it sounded a little too old-fashioned,” LaHaie recalled.
“So when I had them performing for me at a fashion show at the old Big Top department store in Gary, I suggested to Joe that he change their group’s name to ‘the Jackson Five’ because it sounded so much better.”
Also present, Anita Hill, Michael Jackson’s first music teacher at Garnett Elementary School and she said “I taught him “Climb Every Mountain” from “The Sound Of Music” and later he did. That’s what started it. I was his first music teacher. It was unbelievable how one song did all of this.”
Congratulations to the Jackson 5!