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  2. Michael became the best-selling music artist of 1988, and Faith was awarded Album of the Year at the 1989 Grammy Awards. Michael's second solo album, Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1 (1990), was also a number one in the UK and yielded the Billboard Hot 100 number one "Praying for Time" and the worldwide hit "Freedom! '90". [16]

  3. Nov 2, 2023 · One of the leading artists in popular music in the 1980s and 1990s, he grew up in and around London, where he developed his passion for music at an early age. While in high school, Michael...

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  4. Oct 25, 2024 · George Michael (born June 25, 1963, London, England—died December 25, 2016, Goring) was a British singer and songwriter who rose from teen idol status with the Britpop band Wham! to global superstardom as a solo pop music artist in the 1980s and ’90s, with such hit songs as “Faith” and “Freedom! ’90.”

  5. Dec 25, 2016 · Singer George Michael has died aged 53. He shot to fame in the 1980s pop duo Wham! and became one of the most successful and beloved pop stars of his era.

  6. Sep 8, 2020 · After forming the exuberant duo Wham! in 1981, he and school friend Andrew Ridgeley scored a string of global hits that made them pin-ups and even pioneers: in 1985, Wham! made history by...

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  7. Sep 14, 2010 · George Michael - whose real name is Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou - was born in north London in 1963 to a Greek Cypriot father and English mother. While at secondary school in Bushey,...

  8. Dec 26, 2016 · George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley shot to fame as pop duo Wham! George Michael, who died on Christmas Day aged 53, had ravenously devoured pop history as a child, and you can tell from the...