The performance, which marked the 12-year-old's first trip to America, was applauded by both Janet and Jermaine Jackson.
"These people are thanking me, you know, I should be thanking them for this wonderful opportunity they’ve given me…" Shaheen says of his performance of "Who's Loving You" on Tuesday. "I can't describe it."
"If it wasn't for Michael Jackson, I wouldn't be who I am today," he went on to say.
Watch the video to hear the vocal powerhouse describe his thoughts just as stepped out on stage to sing in celebration of the King of Pop's life, and find out what it meant to Shaheen to hear that Jackson was a fan of his and wanted to tour with him!
Published 7/8/09 by
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Michael Joseph Jackson has only evolved LIFE by simply not being here anymore. I would think anyone would prefer LIVING instead of DYING while consciously in competent thought about his or her choice of immediate or hesitated freedom. Michael’s death by now should have already protectively opened millions of minds wisely. His death should have opened eyes by now to view life to be extremely vulnerably priceless no matter what’s of our destine fortunes. He among others of various unusual deaths have symbolized living actively appropriate is pricelessly very important.
Michael Jackson’s dad Joseph Jackson is currently a close friend of mine dearly who I‘ve known for over 20 years, and to hear various strange worlds of people inappropriately and inaccurately gossiping about Joseph’s character as for him to have been an inappropriate father to his children and scorn or inappropriately mock his oral comments on national media and worldwide is unjustifiably wrong by the people. Most of these estrange people recognize televised medias as their systematized gods subconsciously, and consciously they fear their own inner insecurities and sincerity of true will to be able to think appropriately about an opinionated situation. Until you have actually spent time with an individual character how can you possibly agree with others who haven’t even met the person they’re gossiping or have heard about once?!
I know about Joseph Jackson on a personal friendly and unfriendly associate level and also on a professional business structured level, and on a respectful family oriented level too. But the pop quiz question is “Do that gives me the GOSSIP right to chat unfavorably or favorably about Mr. Joseph Jackson?” Only if I am accurate about something I may be revealing or conveying, and appropriately submitting that may possibly save his or someone else’s life. Want to know anything about the golden living legend Mr. Joseph Jackson, simply locate him if you’re privilege somehow or another, and questioned or interview him yourself personally. I know this because I’m also a golden living legend myself by birthright alone and by my father’s title Philip “Phil Phillips” Baptiste. My dad is a retired golden musical living legend who has originally written, composed, and musically produced and performed the golden legendary love ballad Rock & Roll 1959 #2 on the pop and rock chart song title “Sea of Love” as also in the movie title “SEA OF LOVE” acted by actors Al Pacino & Ellen Barklin, and in the movie “JUNO” his music sung by Cat Power, and also Sea Of Love was re-recorded by Robert Plant in 1983. My father was also recently inducted into the Rock & Roll Music Hall Of Fame in two years back-to-back. Many have interviewed and chatted with my father on a personal level in person and with me too and others of our wonderful very super musically and poetically talented caring family, and have finally gotten their questions answered in first class by contacting us personally.
So don’t take what you hear of gossip or on the televised media or magazines or etc to be accurate ever. Ask the persons themselves in person on a one and one basis, OK? You might just learn something appropriately interesting and different of ever before than of your usual daily findings. Michael Jackson was an ingenuous vulnerable endangered nonfiction talented male person caught in manmade modern fairytale spider webs fatally, and as many I’m sadden deeply by his sudden death wondrously.
This planet Earth has been taken a beaten from humans for years now, and currently weeping to return to its originality permanently. The female and male morals have been distant for decades now, and both entities have gone psychotically wildest as to have lost original principals of keeping dignified logically.
There is no more kindness anymore, and appropriate standards have been shattered into pieces of unusual wonder mysteriously. Humans have even often degraded and shamed the titles “monster” and “monstrous” indisputably and victoriously without even feeling shame about that even! I’m always trying to calculate time with radical chaos toward discovering an immediate appropriate solution to return humans back to intellectual normality protectively. But envisioning that goal mind and goal mine presently, I wonder sadly if there has ever been such a state of appropriate class of minds originally. It truly causes questioning on historic morals disturbingly, you think?!
Most humans modernly wander after the mysterious cash flow of their random popular opulent neighbors. They are willing to be or do practically anything inappropriate for financial protection including losing their MIND. It is chaos and chaotic unusual behavior at its most boundless worst ever known to humankind modernly and historically, and who’s going to take the blame for it all, huh?! Well so far it’s been only the planet Earth alone with its animal like spheres that have been transformed by the inappropriate evolving humans themselves, you think?! I just wish all the psychological chaos could end immediately right this very wise golden moment. -by Jason Baptiste a.k.a. “Golden/Golden Poet/Golden Prince/Golden Viceroy/”
You really got to the point.. and what you say is that I 've thinking for long ..and now with this recent event about Michael. I am more asure that things are going the wrong way with humans... For me its clear that Michael Jackson wastn a common 21th century soul.. I think he shouldnt live in these time where evil, envy and other things are sorounding us..the lies.. the ways to get someone destroyed just by simpliy tell it on media or press and many times just based on lies.. its so disgusting for me..
and I think MJ being him the kind person he was.. , he was the target for many .. to get profit or attention..This made me so sad.. I worst if I think that Michael passed away with his memories of those terrible and turbulent days. and false statements and acussations..it wasnt fair to let a human being, who for years delighted us giving joy with his music, go away with those sad feelings...at least Michael could have some happines the later years with his kids.. the only happiness he could really enjoy during his last period of life..
"Michael Joseph Jackson has only evolved LIFE by simply not being here anymore"....
He just evolved.... I want to think that.. its the only way I could be less sad...
I never saw him .. never went to a concert.(I live in Venezuela) and since I was a child (I am his age).. allways listened and followed from the distances.. his carreer.. I must say . with his death he took a part of my life...
I wish many people.. and if they could open their hearts for a minute.. research a little more before talking bad about someone.. perhaps the world would be better..
Sorry for my english..(Gisela /Valencia/Venezuela)
It means Michael wanted to stick it in Shaheen's butt.