George Michael

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriakos Panagiotou, June 25, 1963, East Finchley, London) is an English-Cypriot pop singer/songwriter and gay sex symbol.

Born Georgios Kyriakos Panagiotou, George began his ca

George Michael (born Georgios Kyriakos Panagiotou, June 25, 1963, East Finchley, London) is an English-Cypriot pop singer/songwriter and gay sex symbol.

Born Georgios Kyriakos Panagiotou, George began his career by forming a band called The Executive together with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley, though it did not survive for long. It wasn't until he formed the duo Wham! together again with Ridgeley in 1981 that the success came for the band. Their first album, Fantastic!, was an instant success and within a year they had released their classic debut single, Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do), while their second single, Young Guns (Go For It) became the first in a string of Top 10 hits in the UK singles chart. They were rapidly followed by titles such as Bad Boys Club Tropicana, Wake Me Up Before You Go Go, Freedom, Last Christmas/Everything She Wants, I'm Your Man and a second album, Make It Big. George also sang on the original Band Aid recording of Do They Know It's Christmas and donated the profits from Last Christmas/Everything She Wants to the charity. With the success of his solo releases Careless Whisper (1984) and A Different Corner (1986) stories of an impending Wham! split intensified, and Wham! duly separated in the summer of 1986 after a farewell single, The Edge Of Heaven and album, plus a sell-out concert at Wembley Stadium.