"The loss of Michael Jackson. he wasn't just an American icon or a pop icon, he was a global icon.

VOA: standard.2009.06.27

The Toyota brand is an icon in Japan. Its global success is a source of national pride.

VOA: standard.2010.02.15

Nancy Dlamini, a 22-year-old student from Swaziland, thought Jackson was an icon who would never die but she is philosophical about his passing.

VOA: standard.2009.07.01

Even though the music icon only visited his hometown once after achieving stardom, Michael Jackson and his musical family are fondly remembered in Gary.

VOA: standard.2009.07.11

"As a Congolese,as an African, or as a citizen of the universe, as a great lover of music, Michael Jackson was simply an icon,"

VOA: standard.2009.06.28

Yellow confetti rained from the buildings onto the street, reminiscent of the color the widow-turned-democracy icon chose for her campaign to unseat then-president Ferdinand Marcos.

VOA: standard.2009.08.03

"Well,I know the family so I would be here anyway, But even if I didn't, it's the fact that Lena Horn is an icon of American history.

VOA: standard.2010.05.15

Jackson was remembered as a pop icon who blazed on the scene as a child in 1969, as part of his family musical group, the Jackson 5.

VOA: standard.2009.07.07

Joseph Lowrey,an icon of the American civil rights movement, was also honored.

VOA: standard.2009.08.12

He soon turned the local phenomenon into a national icon.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

but in Me and Orson Welles McKay says the challenge was to rediscover the brash young man who would become the stage and screen icon: "I felt a tremendous responsibility toward him,especially because of his own mythology his own myth making,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.17