December 2008, my brother keeps on telling me, “Watch this please!” It was Michael Jackson’s Live in Bucharest Concert (The dangerous Tour). I really didn’t mind him. My mom and dad were fans of Michael Jackson so they watch it with him. December 30, 2008, we have a dance battle at around 7 in the evening so me and my whole troupe watched the concert at that afternoon. That night, I never stopped repeating how great MJ was on his concert. At that very time, I knew I was his fan already.
The next year came, 2009, I watched the same concert for three months straight so I already got to memorized the steps, where MJ will go, his movements, the song transitions and whatsoever. I also started to have make-belief performances in my bedroom as a Michael Jackson revived as I call. Yeah. So I always imagine that I am in front of many people, millions of people!
When MJ died, I cried. My classmates where laughing at me during those time. I hated it.
November 9, 2009, the school requested me to have an intermission number at our UNESCO celebration. I performed a mix song of If I ain’t got you and Billie Jean. I was in front of many people, literally, the whole school was watching me! That’s it! Many people congratulated me for such a great performance and love my attitude on stage. They say it as “no more stage freight for this girl” As far as I know, that was my biggest number of audience ever. And surprisingly, I don’t know why I did it without being that nervous. I think it’s because of my make belief performances. It boost my confidence on stage, I knew it! It was MJ!
More? Yes! December 12, 2009, the school asked me to compete for vocal solo. So I said yes! But then, the next day, they told me that it was not vocal solo but thus, it was a Doble Cara (definition: two faced, your face has two different sides while you’re performing, the other side is a male and the other is female. You will sing in two different voices also) Since I do not know how to do that, I didn’t come to school to practice that because I don’t want to. The competition is at December 15, 5pm. December 14 came. I thought that somebody else will be competing for that competition but the head in our faculty called me and said that I need to perform. I cried. Then somebody told me to think of a duet song of Michael Jackson. And I did! So Dec. 15 in the morning, I didn’t practice. I just prepared my costume and my song piece, and when the moment came. I won! I sang Michael Jackson and Janet Jackson’s scream. I won! It was really cool! 🙂
I was so blessed. MJ really did a big part in boosting my performance confidence, I’ve had more MJ performances after that day.
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