{"id":13855,"date":"2012-04-09T15:52:54","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13855"},"modified":"2012-04-09T15:52:54","modified_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:52:54","slug":"the-jackson-brothers-hit-the-road-for-unity-tour-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=13855","title":{"rendered":"The Jackson Brothers Hit The Road For Unity Tour 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the <strong>Jackson<\/strong> brothers \u2014 <strong>Marlon<\/strong>, <strong>Tito<\/strong>, <strong>Jackie<\/strong>, and <strong>Jermaine<\/strong> \u2014 plan on hitting 27 cities this summer on their \u201cUnity Tour 2012.\u201d\u00a0 The trek will kick off June 18th in Louisville, Ky., and wrap up July 29 in Snoqualmie, Wash., reports the Chicago Sun-Times.<\/p>\n<p>The tour will mark the first time the brothers have toured together since their 1984 famed \u201c<em>Victory Tour<\/em>,\u201d which included <strong>Michael<\/strong> and youngest brother, <strong>Randy<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The brothers, who were formally known as the <strong>Jackson 5<\/strong> when <strong>Michael<\/strong> was onboard, were a musical R&amp;B force to be reckoned with. They were one of the first Black teen idols to appeal to both Black and white audiences equally.\u00a0 The group cranked out hit after hit during a heyday that lasted more than three decades, starting in the mid-sixties.\u00a0 The <strong>Jackson 5<\/strong> also launched solo careers for <strong>Jermaine<\/strong> and <strong>Michael<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Now that the opportunity has presented itself again, the <strong>Jacksons<\/strong> plan on giving their audiences some of their greatest<strong> Jackson 5<\/strong> hits, as well as doing a tribute to Michael.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four of the Jackson brothers \u2014 Marlon, Tito, Jackie, and Jermaine \u2014 plan on hitting 27 cities this summer on their \u201cUnity Tour 2012.\u201d\u00a0 The trek will kick off June 18th in Louisville, Ky., and wrap up July 29 in Snoqualmie, Wash., reports the Chicago Sun-Times. The tour will mark the first time the brothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13855"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13855\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}