Michael Jackson's tragic death put me in mind of a question that first struck me some years ago: How did Jackson keep that boyish treble voice as he matured? The boy who sang on the Jackson Five's early hits became the grown-up Michael Jackson without apparently going through the vocal changes brought on in boys by puberty. Did his voice ever truly "break"?
I remember dancing wildly to "I want you back," in 1969, the year Jackson turned 11. For him,...
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