With his single sequined glove, sparkly jacket and sharp moonwalk dance moves, the man on stage could be no one else. Or could he?
¡°The good thing about being a Michael Jackson impersonator is that I play a global superstar,¡± says Kazushi Yabe, who has made his living impersonating the late King of Pop for the past 13 years under the stage name Maiko Ryo.
¡°When I do it well, I get to experience the feeling of what it must be like to be a superstar,¡± he says. ¡°It¡¯s very exciting to be able to bask in the same kind of adulation that Michael Jackson got.¡±

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