The famous George Michael was an English singer and songwriter who was born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963. Michael was raised in East Finchley, Middlesex, and first gained notoriety as a member of the musical group Wham! before starting a solo career. The band’s first two albums, Fantastic in 1983 and Make It Big in 1984, both peaked at number one on the UK Albums Chart and the US Billboard 200 after Andrew Ridgeley and others joined forces to become Wham! in 1981.
“Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Last Christmas” were two of their top singles. To solidify their position as a global phenomenon, Wham! toured China in April 1985. This was the first time a Western popular music artist had ever visited China, and the tour received extensive international media coverage.
“Careless Whisper,” Michael’s debut solo single, peaked at number one in more than 20 nations, including the US and the UK. He rose to the position of 1988’s top-selling musician. Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, his second solo album sold almost eight million copies.
George Michael’s parents: Meet Jack Panos, Lesley Angold Panayiotou
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou was born in East Finchley on June 25, 1963. His father, Kyriacos “Jack” Panayiotou, was a Greek-Cypriot restaurateur who moved to England in the 1950s from Patriki, Cyprus. His mother, Lesley Angold was born Harrison and died in 1997, was a dancer from England.
Michael revealed to the Los Angeles Times in June 2008 that his maternal grandmother was Jewish, but she married a non-Jewish man and raised her children with little awareness of their Jewish heritage owing to her terror during WWII.
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