Los Angeles: Joe Jackson, the patriarch of an American musical dynasty who started his son Michael and his Jackson 5 brothers on the road to stardom but also verbally and physically abused them, has died at the age of 89, US media reported on Wednesday.

Jackson, who lived in Las Vegas, had been suffering from cancer.

"Joe was a strong man who acknowledged his own imperfections and heroically delivered his sons and daughters from the steel mills of Gary, Indiana to worldwide pop superstardom," John Branca and John McClain, the executors of the estate of Michael Jackson, said in a statement confirming the death.

Joe was estranged from Michael before the singer's 2009 death. He was also estranged from his wife, Katherine, and many of his other children, including another singing superstar, Janet.