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Don't know what kind of Spanish speaker you spoke to, but no Spaniard/Latin-American I know would pronounce a famouse people name lke Michael Jackson "wrong".

• lou1306 5y ago
  Not the original commenter, but I'll try to explain because something similar happens in Italy as well It's not a "wrong" pronunciation, but it's clearly influenced by how Spanish/Italian stresses individual letters way more than English. Let's take Hillary Clinton as another example: Italians pronounce it "Heel-lah-ree Clean-tone" (/ˈilari ˈklinton/), which is way different from the actual pronunciation.
  • oblio 5y ago
    I don't think they pronounce it "Clean-tone", though. Knowing Italian, it's more likely to be Clean-tohn.
    • lou1306 5y ago
      Indeed, it's more like "tohn" (is there any common English word with that sound?)
• robocat 5y ago
  It was in Spain, say 20 years ago, and they pronounced it as though it was Spanish words. I suspect you know a different demographic from that I knew.