Years back this happened #2

<b>A R Rahman joins hands with Michael Jackson</b>

He's the king of pop and has worked with some all-time music greats over the years, including britney spears, who will duet with michael jackson on the track the way you make me feel , for his 30th anniversary concert. now, however, it's the whacko jacko's turn to work with our very own, dil se man. yup, you read right, michael jackson has worked on a single with lagaan's a r rahman. titled, ekam satyam, the song is a duet sung by the maestros and is composed by rahman. the track is part sanskrit and part english. the sanskrit portions have been rendered by rahman and the english ones obviously by mj. the english lyrics, however, have been penned by kanika myer bharat and the sanskrit lyrics by a r parthasarathy. initially the song was penned specifically for the 'mj and friends concert' held in munich in june 1999. but since it gained some popularity among mj fans in the west, it appears that the song will be released as a single, sometime towards the end of 2001.

Jackson considered including it on his forthcoming album, invincible, but changed his mind at the last minute for reasons best known to himself. jackson, who will turn 43 on august 29, is hoping that fans will ignore the lurid headlines of the last decade and flock to buy his new album and all kinds of things imprinted with his name and image. but some in the licensing and music industries think it will be a struggle for michael to regain the lustre that had him towering over teen stardom in the '80s. in the short-lived world of pop, you are either hot or not, and insiders say backing jackson to make a big us chart comeback is a gamble, though the payoff could be worth megabucks. the songs for mj's album, invincible, have not yet been finalised. so after alka yagnik shot to fame with chamma chamma in moulin rouge, don't be overly surprised to see rahman on michael's latest album, invincible.