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Joseph Jackson 2007 (Photo by Reflexivity Group, Wikipedia)

Joe Jackson died on Wednesday, a Jackson family source confirmed to ET. He was 89. ET confirmed last week that the Jackson family patriarch’s health had taken a turn for the worse and his family was gathering to say their goodbyes.

A Jackson family source told ET that he was in a Las Vegas hospital with terminal cancer. According to the source, Jackson has been battling the illness for a while now and doctors recently told members of the family that he has limited time to live because the cancer cannot be treated.

Jackson was previously in the hospital in 2016 after he became weak and struck a high fever during a regularly scheduled checkup with his doctor. The brief illness sparked rumors that he was dying — or had already died. Those rumors were quickly dispelled by Jackson himself.

He also suffered a stroke on July 26, 2015 (the same day as his 87th birthday) while traveling in Brazil.

But Jackson recovered from both illnesses, showing that despite his years, he was still tough. He referenced that toughness recently when he shared some advice for grandson Blanket Jackson in a heartfelt video: “Be like me: Be tough, in a good way, and you’ll live a long time.”

Joe was the father of late music legend Michael Jackson, who died on June 25, 2009. He was also the father of four daughters — Janet, La Toya, Rebbie and Joh’Vonnie — and six other sons — Jermaine, Randy, Tito, Jackie, Marlon and Brandon, who died in March 1957 just after he was born. Joe was married to wife Katherine since 1949.

Joe, a famous talent manager, is best known for managing his sons’ musical group, The Jackson 5, originally known as The Jackson Brothers. The group, which included vocals by Michael, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine and Marlon, was created in the early 1960s in the family’s hometown of Gary, Indiana. Their first single, “Big Boy,” was released on Jan. 30, 1968 on the Steeltown Records label. They were signed to Motown Records approximately one year later.

While the group was with Motown, Joe helped The Jackson 5 reach nationwide fame with hits like “ABC,” “I Want You Back,” “The Love You Save” and “I’ll Be There.” In 1974, Joe created his own record label, Ivory Tower International Records. The artists he signed toured with The Jackson 5 that year, performing as the groups’ opening acts during their international tour.

Joe also helped launch solo careers for both Randy and Janet. Janet, who at age 52, is still going strong on her State of the World Tour, balancing her career with being a mom to 1-year-old son Eissa.

Joe’s family journey was highlighted in the ABC mini-series, The Jacksons: An American Dream, in 1992, and in VH1’s Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story in 2004. Joe was portrayed by actors Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and Frederic Tucker, respectively. In 2011, Joe was inducted into the Arkansas Hall of Fame. He received The Rhythm & Blues Humanitarian Award from the R&B Music Hall of Fame four years later.

By Desiree Murphy | Entertainment Tonight

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Joseph Walter Jackson (July 26, 1928 – June 27, 2018) was an American talent manager and patriarch of the Jackson family of entertainers which included the pop stars Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson. He was inducted into the Rhythm and Blues Music Hall of Fame as a member of the class of 2014.

Jackson was an African-American, born to Samuel Jackson (1893–1992), a university professor, and Crystal Lee King (1907–1997), in Fountain Hill, Arkansas, on July 26, 1928 (although, according to the Arkansas Black Hall of Fame and Katherine Jackson’s book, My Family, The Jacksons, the year was 1929). Jackson was the eldest of five children. He was of African and Native American Ancestry.

Joseph Jackson recalled from early childhood that his father was domineering and strict, and he described himself as a “lonely child that had only few friends” in his memoirs, The Jacksons. After his parents separated when he was twelve, his mother, two brothers, and sister moved to East Chicago, Indiana, a suburb outside Chicago in Northwest Indiana, and he moved with his father to Oakland, California. When he was 18, after his father remarried, he moved to East Chicago to live with his mother and siblings. He soon got a job in East Chicago at Inland Steel Company, but did not finish high school. While in East Chicago, he began to pursue his dreams of becoming a boxer and found success with the Golden Gloves program. While he was preparing for a professional boxing career, he met 17-year-old Katherine Scruse, who also lived in East Chicago and attended Washington High School; Joe married another woman and in less than a year he was divorced before he started dating Katherine.

Joseph and Katherine were married on November 5, 1949. In January 1950, they purchased 2300 Jackson Street, a small two-bedroom home near East Chicago in Gary, Indiana. The Jacksons’ first child, Maureen Reillette “Rebbie” Jackson, was born four months later on May 29, 1950, in the Jackson house. Still employed at Inland Steel, Jackson left his hopes of becoming a professional boxer in order to support his family, and began working there as a full-time crane operator; he later took a second part-time job at American Foundries in East Chicago. In the meantime, his wife Katherine tended to their growing family; she started working part-time at Sears in Gary in the late 1950s. The Jacksons would go on to have ten children (their son Brandon Jackson died just after he was born). During the early 1950s, Jackson briefly performed with his own blues band The Falcons, playing guitar. Despite their efforts, The Falcons did not get a recording deal and subsequently broke up after one of their members, Thornton “Pookie” Hudson, founded his own band in 1952. That band would go on to become a successful doo-wop group named The Spaniels.

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Other Notable Musicians’ Deaths…

June 2018
27: Joe Jackson, 89, American band manager (Jackson 5), patriarch of the Jackson family, pancreatic cancer.

26: Fedor Frešo, 71, Slovak rock and jazz bassist, heart failure; Bo Nilsson, 81, Swedish composer.

24: Xiomara Alfaro, 88, Cuban opera singer; George Cameron, 70, American musician (The Left Banke), cancer; Dan Ingram, 83, American disc jockey (KBOX, WABC, WCBS-FM, WIL), complications of dementia.

23: Violeta Rivas, 80, Argentine singer and actress.

22: Geoffrey Oryema, 65, Ugandan musician; Vinnie Paul, 54, American drummer (Pantera, Damageplan, Hellyeah), heart attack.

20: David Bianco, 63–64, American record producer, engineer and mixer (Tom Petty, Teenage Fanclub, Bob Dylan), stroke; Hacer Tülü, 40, Turkish singer, shot.

19: Efrén Echeverría, 86, Paraguayan musician, composer, and record collector; Ángel Medardo Luzuriaga, 82, Ecuadorian Andean cumbia musician; Bansi Quinteros, 41, Spanish keyboardist (GMS), blood cancer; Lowrell Simon, 75, American soul singer-songwriter.

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