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\n\t\"GeorgeGeorge Michael was an English singer, songwriter and producer who sold more than 115 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling music artists of all time.  His solo album Faith<\/em> sold 20 million copies.  In 2004, the British Radio Academy named him the most-played artist in the period 1984-2004.   On Christmas  morning in 2016, at the young age of 53, he was found dead in his bed with a fatty liver and a huge ballooned heart, called dilated cardiomyopathy, that was too weak to pump blood through his body.<\/div>\n
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\n\tHis Meteoric Music Career<\/strong><\/div>\n
\n\tGeorgios Kyriacos Panayiotou was born in England on June 25, 1963.  His father was a Greek Cypriot who immigrated to Britain and owned a restaurant, and his mother was a British dancer.  In 1981 at age 18, calling himself George Michael, he formed the duo Wham<\/em> with a high school friend, Andrew Ridgeley.  In 1983 their first album, Fantastic<\/em>, became the best-selling album in England and they became one of the top acts in the world.  Their second album,  Make it Big<\/em>, reached number one on the U.S. charts. <\/div>\n
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\n\tIn 1987, at age 24, he sang a duet with Aretha Franklin, "I Knew You Were Waiting," which became one of the top hits in the world. He next released his first solo album, Faith<\/em>, which contained the video and song, “I Want Your Sex."  After it was banned by many radio stations in the US and England as too provocative, he stated that the song was moral because it was "about monogamy, not about casual sex." In the video he used lipstick to write "explore monogamy" on his partner's back.  <\/div>\n
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\n\tIn the video of "Faith" he played a guitar and wore dark sunglasses, a leather jacket, cowboy boots and Levi jeans. It became the top hit in the U.S. and England, sold more than 25 million copies worldwide and 10 million copies in the U.S. alone. From then on, every album he made turned into gold. In 1988, Michael went on a world tour and sang in an event with Aretha Franklin that grossed almost 20 million dollars.  After that, just about everything he did sold records and filled concert halls as he became one of the most famous pop singers in the world. <\/div>\n
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