{"id":574828,"date":"2026-05-09T14:13:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574828\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T14:13:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T14:13:18","slug":"michael-jackson-six-year-old-goes-viral-for-jackson-5-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/574828\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Jackson: Six-year-old goes viral for Jackson 5 cover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@gabrielgoldsmith19\/video\/7635669814878506262?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Gabriel Goldsmith\u2019s performance<\/a> of the Jackson 5\u2019s 1969 hit \u2018I Want You Back\u2019 has been viewed by more than two million people on TikTok so far after it was posted on the social media platform earlier this week.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The video of the young Barrovian singing his little heart out in true Michael Jackson style has also been liked by nearly 350,000, with more than 4,500 comments too.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Gabriel could apparently sing Queen hits like \u2018We are the champions\u2019 and \u2018Don\u2019t stop me now\u2019 at just 2 years of age, his mum claims (Image: Hannah Goldsmith)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  The young lad\u2019s performance of the Motown classic comes after the motion picture \u2018Michael\u2019, depicting the life of Michael Jackson, hit cinemas at the end of last month.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Gabriel\u2019s mum Hannah Goldsmith said she \u2018never imagined it would reach so many people\u2019 when she posted it on the popular social media platform.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked about whether she thought the performance would ever go viral, Hannah said: \u201cWe honestly didn\u2019t expect it. We thought it might have made a few people smile, but two million views is something we never imagined.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cThe response has been incredible &#8211; more than 4,500 comments, all of them amazingly positive.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Gabriel\u2019s mum said that her son has always been a little performer with him being able to sing songs like \u2018We are the champions\u2019 and \u2018Don\u2019t stop me now\u2019 by Queen when he was just two years old.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  <img   width=\"100%\"\/>Gabriel Goldsmith TikTik, which is run by his mum, Hannah (Image: Gabriel Goldsmith TikTik)\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Hannah said that Gabriel \u2018just loves singing at home\u2019 and she and her husband, Gabriel\u2019s father Antony Goldsmith, \u2018are incredibly proud of him.\u2019\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Asked what Gabriel\u2019s reaction has been to the video, Hannah said: \u201cHe doesn\u2019t really grasp the scale of it all, and I don\u2019t think he realises just how good he is.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cFor him, it is simply about singing and enjoying himself, but knowing that others enjoy it too makes him very happy.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  \u201cI show him the kind comments, which always bring a big smile to his face.\u201d\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Michael Jackson was 11 years old when he sang \u2018I Want You Back\u2019, and perhaps Barrow\u2019s own Gabriel will be the next superstar singer to make waves in the music industry at such a young age.\n<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Gabriel Goldsmith\u2019s performance of the Jackson 5\u2019s 1969 hit \u2018I Want You Back\u2019 has been viewed by more&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-574828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=574828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}