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Performers and celebrity speakers so far: Smokey Robinson, Mariah Carey, Queen Latifah, Lionel Richie, Berry Gordy on behalf of "the Motown family...: simply the greatest entertainer that ever lived," Stevie Wonder, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson ("my idol"), Jennifer Hudson, Rev. Al Sharpton, John Mayer, Brooke Shields, Jermaine Jackson, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, Usher, Smokey again, Shaheen Jafargholi, Kenny Ortega.
Jackson family on stage after finale, addressing crowd: Jermaine, Marlon, Michael's daughter Paris, 12.
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