The tragic deaths of Michael Jackson y Farah Fawcett monopolized the news and the first pages.

The things would not have to happen like that. The holders for June 25 should have been on such an awaited meeting in the White House between the President Barack Obama and leaders of the Congress on the migratory topic. Finally they sat down after discussed how to design a project of law of migratory reform that all the interested parties were liking. Finally our cracked health system might straighten up and million undocumented persons would have the opportunity to legalize his status. But immigration stayed again in the background, this time for two tragic deaths.

The death of Farrah Fawcet filled us with sadness. To see before our eyes to one of the beauties of all the times succumbing before the claws of the cancer was a bitter but not surprising gulp. After all she had shared with the world across a television program his long struggle against the mortal illness showing us what means to be a fighter. His elegance and charisma accompanied it until the end.

"Who is Farrah Fawcett?", me asked my daughters. "One of the Angels of Charlie", I said to them. A woman who took us to so many women to change our hairstyle style, and whose smile and optimism brings to us inspiration.

What happened a few hours later yes was really unexpected. I could not believe it when I saw in the news that the heart had trumped Michael Jackson and that it was in comma. The journalists were bringing from the place of the facts and expert ones were speaking about his trajectory. His death had not been confirmed but it was obvious that the inevitable thing was still to come. The king of pop dead at the age of 50 of age.

I did not have to say to my daughters who it was he who was, but yes I had to tell to them why his death had caused so many stir. My 12-year-old daughter saw it only like a singer who had done too many surgeries to himself and who in some moment was accused of abusing a child. That of 14 described it as a famous singer, who in spite of showing target was black. Why then so many sadness?

Michael Jackson was undoubtedly, a controversial figure. His contributions to the world of the music are unvaluable, although they turned out to be to a certain extent darkened by the constant changes in his appearance and the accusations of abuse against minors. Nevertheless, he keeps on being venerated by million fanatics, which have been still his musician throughout the years, which have been inspired by his singular style, and those who appreciate his charitable works.

I remember very well child Michael Jackson. I was always one of his most fervent admirers. I continued closely his career, when I was singing with his brothers, then like soloist, his physical transformation and his introverted character. To a certain extent I was feeling sorry for. He was looking like a mentally disturbed young man that there had fallen down victim of her own success. It lost his youth and could not fight with it. Ironically it created in his ranch "Neverland" a fantasy world later to get lost in the same one.

The duel expressions have been impressive. But although it is always difficult to see someone to die so suddenly and clearly at the wrong time, his death also touches us to the nostalgia. Figures as Michael Jackson y Farrah Fawcett remember us to another age. For through those that we live during these years, it is like re-living through our youth, transporting us to an epoch in which the world was less convulsed and the musical icons were done of an innate talent.

What a way of finishing a strong day of news! That in peace rest Michael Jackson y Farrah Fawcett. And that the migratory reform does promptly a reality to itself.

(c) 2008 by Maria Helen Salinas.