Michael Jackson suffers cardiac arrest at home in Los Angeles suburb . Singer was dominant in pop music for four decades with Jackson 5 , solo . TL;DR By the time he was 6 , he had joined his brothers in a musical group organized by his father , and by the time he was 10 , the group -- the Jackson 5 -- had been signed to Motown . The singer suffered a heart attack while on tour and died shortly after arriving at UCLA Medical Center.
Michael Jackson suffers cardiac arrest at home in Los Angeles suburb . Singer was dominant in pop music for four decades with Jackson 5 , solo . TL;DR The singer suffered a heart attack while on tour and died shortly after arriving at UCLA Medical Center.