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  2. George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou; 25 June 196325 December 2016) was an English singer-songwriter and record producer.

  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. Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, popularly known as George Michael, was an English singer, songwriter, and record producer. One of the leading pop stars of the 1980s and 1990s, he won a Grammy for best album of the year in 1987.

  6. Dec 19, 2022 · His singing style was a major part of his success as a performer and helped to establish him as one of the most respected and influential singers of his time. George Michael's singing technique was characterised by his powerful and emotive voice, his control of vibrato and falsetto.

  7. Mar 6, 2023 · George Michael was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou in East Finchley, London. His father, Kyriacos Panayiotou (nicknamed 'Jack'), was a Greek Cypriot restaurateur, who moved to England in the 1950s. Heartbreaking poetry George Michael wrote at 11-years-old proves the star's early talent.

  8. He re-defined popular music with ‘Faith’, his debut solo album of 1987 and he subsequently crafted a substantial, enormously popular body of work. Perhaps, though, the real starting point is Radlett, a commuter town of 60,000 souls, north-west of London, where some scenes of Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange were filmed.