Okay, so one more thing that was really funny to be about the music conversation/music stuff is I was asking him if any of these people were also famous in Morocco.
Many of our artists are international and do world tours and everything, so I thought some of them might be. And I was asking about some of our very biggest names – Taylor Swift, Rihanna [not American, but famous there], Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin, Britney Spears, The Backstreet Boys, and on and on. I tried different eras from the 50s to present day.
And with every single artist, he’d never heard of them.
Until.
I was like “What about Michael Jackson?” And he was like “Michael Jackson?! Yes, Michael Jackson is famous here!”
And I thought it was so wild that almost 13 years after his death, Michael Jackson is the only American artist known to my driver in Morocco.
He transcends everything – time, language, space, death even. Michael Jackson. Still maybe the most famous man, over 13 years after his death.
(And then obviously we rocked out to much of MJ’s catalogue.