Michael Jackson Affirmation | Recorded Oct 2003

Original recorded : October 2003 New leak : 2 August 2026 Michael Jackson immediately recorded this spoken word piece to encourage Roy Horn (of Siegfried & Roy) to stay positive while recovering from a severe onstage tiger attack on Oct 3 2003 For years, this spoken word track was kept unreleased, with only a 14-second snippet leaking in 2023. The backing track for this spoken word is a instrumental song called "photographs" which was recorded in 2003 during Michael's intensive studio sessions with Brad Buxer. MJ and Buxer decided to repurpose the track as the melodic bedrock for "Michael's Affirmation," laying Jackson's spoken-word words directly over the instrumental. #michaeljackson #affirmations #original #music #asmr #sleepmusic #mj #jackson #michael