Add to My Profile | More VideosSy entertained family and friends with celebrity impressions as a child in Chicago. He was a hit in high school talent shows and went professional as a comedian/impressionist. He's performed on cruise ships, worked comedy clubs and toured with Diana Ross, James Brown and B.B. King. Jackson was in his repertoire of characters when he joined "Legends." "In 'Legends' I'm doing a serious impression - although how serious can you be with that much makeup on? I can do a dead-on Bill Cosby (voice), but I don't look anything like Cosby. With Michael Jackson it's the total package."Soft-spoken, with a quick wit and sharp sense of humor, the 35-year old entertainer emphatically leaves his King of Pop persona at the showroom door."I could be like the guys who wear makeup all the time and try to have all the mannerisms, but they're trying to use his stage image as an alter ego. I'm perfectly fine with who I am."Sy enjoys being ignored by people who raved over him an hour or two before. He lives quietly, a fan of old musicals, Fred Astaire, Sammy Davis Jr. and James Brown. He shares his home here with a Siamese cat and a parrot. He also enjoys bike riding and working out."You have to stay aerobically charged to do the set, but the hardest part (of the job) is putting on the makeup and being in character afterward. People will ask me (personal) things about his life, like I'm supposed to know. I met him through family friends, traveled in his entourage and talked with him many times, but I never asked him about personal things or tried to get anything from him."If and when he decides to stop portraying Michael, Sy plans to diversify - "sing, dance, impressions" - and maybe parlay his acting skills into a sitcom. At the moment he's working on updating and improving his set."Everything you see me do was already set when I came here - songs, choreography, everything - but I've been on tour with Michael so I think I know a little more about what he'd be doing. Some things you have to keep, but I'd like to add what I call the 'Fred Astaire-style Side' of his dancing, and 'Man in the Mirror.'"People come back (now) and still like it, but when they see what it's going to be they'll say, 'This is the real thing!' "
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