This is my daughter Heather & friends with Michael. Hawaii 1997. Heather had been supporting MJ on various news programs in Hawaii and when we were waiting outside MJ's hotel, Michael saw her. He then had his security go and get Heather & her friends so he could meet them! si ea e mama fetei
This is Heather, Brian and myself with Katherine Jackson. After this picture was taken, Mrs. Jackson invited us in for dinner & we also played UNO in the backyard for several hours. This is one of my most cherished memories. I LOVE Katherine very, very much!!!
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People magazine said that those pictures were from a Jane Fonda charity event in 1979:
Because We Care, a benefit concert combined with dramatic and comedic sketches designed to "aid the needy in Southeast Asia. Among the many celebrity performers and Pavilion were Julie Andrews, Jane Fonda, Michael Jackson, Walter Matthau, The Muppets, John Ritter, Frank Sinatra, John Travolta, Muppets, John Ritter, Frank Sinatra, John Travolta and Danny Kaye, the latter serving as the opening emcee informing the audience about the plight of innocent Cambodian war victims.
In 1980, Michael Jackson performs song “Rock With You” at “Because We Care”, a UNICEF Charity Gala. "Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you very much, not only for your applause, but thank you for caring; and I’m very happy to be here. I love you all. Thank you”, he says to the audience after performing his song.
Suzee Ikeda Motown Thank You party 1973
According to the listing in the article Recording Vocals the "Motown Way," with David Issac & Reggie Dozier. The guy in the back isn't known but that's Reggie Dozier sitting (brother of Lamont Dozier of Holland Dozier Holland, the famed writing team at Motown), Lionel, Brenda, Mike, and the lady is listed as Susie Akita.</</u>b>
Born Suzee Wendy Ikeda on August 25, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of a Japanese father and an American mother.
Initially assigned to Mowest, Motown's subsidiary label, her first single was a cover version of "Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah" from the Disney film, "Song of the South." The single failed to chart.
In April 1973, Suzee released her first single on the Motown label, a ballad written by Charles Fox and Norman Gimbell called, "Time For Me to Go." Unfortunately, the single and her solo career went nowhere.
During her tenure at Motown she was described as a "creative confidant" of Michael Jackson. “Michael Jackson could make you forget he was so young,” writes Suzee Ikeda, in her introductory essay to Hello World: The Complete Motown Solo Collection.[1]
Ikeda's rapport with artists, soon led to a new role behind the scenes as a production executive for the company. One of her early projects was the A song for you album by The Temptations, released in 1975.
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