Died at the age of 53 years, the singer George Michael’s – Diário de Notícias – Lisbon

Singer died at home “in a peaceful manner”, reported the press release issued by the agent

he Died at 53 years of age, the singer George Michael.

A statement from the agent of the singer informs that the George Michael “died peacefully at home in the Christmas period”.

“The family asks that their privacy be respected at this difficult time”, added the same note. The Billboard, Michael Lippman, the agent of the singer, revealed that George Michael was found lifeless in bed, due to a heart failure whose reason is still unclear.

According to the BBC, an ambulance will have been called on to intervene in the early afternoon on a property in Goring, Oxfordshire, in the Uk, allegedly the property of the singer. The police says that there were no “suspicious circumstances”.

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, a Greek cypriot, born in London, the 25 of June of 1963, he founded the Wham! with Andrew Ridgeley, who met in high school.

In the early 80′s, they got the record deal that would lead up to the first places of the charts. “Funtastic” was the first disk.

The first album from Wham!

On November 4, 1982 , George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley made their first appearance in the Top of the Pops. The song was Young Guns (Go For It), according to an extensive chronology of the artist’s life in his official page.

The Wham! they reached the first places of the tops in the U.S. with the song Wake me up Before you Go Go.

The time was also Careless Whisperer (co-written with Ridgeley, but in that George Michael was the main character), Everything she Wants, and Last Christmas.

In 1986, George Michael officially began a solo career. The album “Faith”, of 1987, earned him a grammy for best album of the year. This day came the topics like Father Figure I Want Your Sex, which quickly became more than a commercial success.

radio Stations in north american have refused to pass the song, due to its explicit content. Despite this, George Michael has sold 7 million copies of this single.

Sold 80 million records throughout his career, according to the british press.

A single concert in Portugal

The musician, who arrived in the news by problems with drug use, he worked the soil only once in Portugal in 2007 at the Municipal Stadium in Coimbra, on the occasion of the 25 years of career.

he was Preparing a documentary about their nearly four decades of his career, called Freedom, as one of their songs.

solo, George Michael he released six albums, the latest of which is “Symphonica”, 2014, and that is a record live. The singer announced in September that the recovery of the disk Listen Without Prejudice, 25 years after its launch. A landmark of the new idol of teenage singer with a place in pop music history.

The music was not the only subject that brought him the news. In 1998, detained by Los Angeles police accused of soliciting sex in a public bathroom, George Michael, always reserved as to the personal life, has made public his homosexuality.

Elton John “in shock”

This night, Elton John said he was “in shock” at the news of the death of George Michael, who sang Don t Let the Sun Go Down. “I Lost a dear friend – the most kind, the most generous soul and a brilliant artist”. As he, Mark Ronson, and and other artists reacted to the death of the musician on social networks.

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