I came across an interesting article on www.billboard.com that discussed his popularity and sales across the globe. For avid MJ FAN’s I thought I should share it. BofMJ readers tell me what you think?

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SOUTH AFRICA

“Growing up as a young black kid in a township, you either dreamed of being a freedom fighter or being Michael Jackson. It was as simple as that.”

So recalls the leading South African R&B artist Loyiso Bala, whose five South African Music Awards are a testament to the fact that he chose to follow the King of Pop.

The 29-year-old likens Jackson’s impact on his family—which includes his high-profile musician brothers Zwai and Phelo—to that of former President Nelson Mandela.

“The whole family would drop what they were doing and watch, mesmerized whenever Michael or [Mandela] came on,” he says of life in his Kwa-Nobuhle township home, located outside the Eastern Cape town of Uitenhage.

Lupi Ngcayisa, a DJ on Metro FM, South Africa’s biggest national urban commercial station, says Jackson’s “rich lyrics changed the complexion of black radio.”

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