Tribute to Bruce Swedien, by Isabelle Petitjean for MJBackstage magazine
A tribute to Bruce Swedien, Michael Jackson's emblematic sound engineer by Isabelle Petitjean, looking back on a friendship woven of respect
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Mar 23, 20233 min read
Help me to translate my last book "Michael Jackson, black or white ?" in english !
fund dedicated to the translation of I. Petitjean's latest book on Michael Jackson, black or white? outsanding artist vs racialized industry
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 27, 20215 min read
Michael Jackson, signs and synchronicities (2/2)
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #14 “I do not believe in meaningless coincidences. I believe every coincidence is a...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 23, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, signs and synchronicities (1/2)
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #13 "The perfume of the soul is the memory. It is the most delicate, the most suave part...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 13, 20215 min read
Gary, Indiana, and Michael Jackson
From Gary, Indiana, to Michael Jackson, the entrails of a dizzying trajectory I truly believe that you should go to Gary once in your...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 9, 20214 min read
Going back to Indiana, Michael Jackson and Gary
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #12 Gary, Blanket, Katherine and... always, the smart team of mister Randomness Jackson......
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 6, 202110 min read
From Encino to Forest Lawn... So close to Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #11 The day after my visit to Westlake Studios was a spring break Sunday. My hotel was not...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Aug 2, 20217 min read
On Michael Jackson footsteps in Los Angeles
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #10 With Matt Forger (& Michael Jackson) in Westlake studios Eleven years ago, at this...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 30, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, the chaman
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #9 "Keep the Faith" You know, of course, the song "Keep the Faith". You probably know how...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 27, 20216 min read
Michael Jackson, don't trust appearances
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #8 "Appearances are enough to make a world" Jean Anouilh In this summer of 2021, I leave...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 23, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, believe in your dreams
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #7 "You can always dream, and your dreams will come true. But you HAVE TO make them come...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 20, 20215 min read
Michael Jackson, meeting his collaborators
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #6 "Coincidence is God's way of remaining anonymous" Albert Einstein In the fall of 2009,...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 16, 20213 min read
Michael Jackson, one Voice, one Everything
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #5 The most difficult thing, when I had to go to university with my thesis project on...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 13, 20212 min read
When Michael Jackson unites people in a smile...
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #4 I was walking along the Promenade des Anglais in Nice the other night. In the middle of...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 4, 20214 min read
Michael Jackson, a star to believe in?
12 years following your voice #3 I had spent the summer stunned. Everything was spinning in my head to the point that I was afraid, at...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jul 1, 20214 min read
How Michael Jackson became a part of our life ?
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #2 “Proofs weary the truth” Georges Braque There are certitudes, no, evidences, which...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Jun 26, 20212 min read
Michael Jackson didn't die on 25 June...
Michael Jackson, 12 years following your voice #1 Twelve years ago, like many of you, I woke up unaware that I was living the first day...
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Isabelle Petitjean, MJMusicologie
Dec 30, 20117 min read
Michael Jackson. Me, my ears and Him
(If the order of the words in the title does not respect the protocol of politeness, you should know that it at least respects the order...
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