George Michael Height, Weight, Age, Wife, Biography, Family & More

George Michael (born 25 June 1963) was a popular singer, producer, songwriter, Philanthropist, and music director from East Finchley, London, England. He was best known for his songs like Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Last Christmas, Faith, and Careless Whisper. George was the famous singer of the 1980s and ’90s.  He was also a member of duo music named “Wham”. Michael made his name in the best-selling music artist because he sold more than 80 million albums and records.

On 25 December 2019, his sister Melanie Panayiotou died at the same house where her brother George died. After the investigation, the police said that it was a sudden death and the reason for death was not found.

Biography, Education & Family

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou took birth on 25 June 1963 in East Finchley, London, England. On 25 December 2016, the famous singer died at the age of 53. The cause of death was heart failure. His father “Kyriacos Panayiotou” was the owner of a restaurant in England. His mother “Lesley Angold Panayiotou” was a famous dancer. He called his dad as Jack.

He had two sisters in his family, Yioda Panayiotou and Melanie Panayiotou. He takes admission to Kingsbury High School, Kingsbury, London for completes his education. After that, he joined Bushey Meads School, Bushey, and Hertfordshire, England. He was interested in music from childhood. In Bushey, he makes a friend named “Andrew Ridgeley”. Andrew is also a good musician. Both of them make a group named “Wham” in 1981.

Physical Stats, Height, Weight & More

George was a popular singer and stage performer. He had a great personality. The height of Michael was 6 feet (in meters 1.83 m). He gained the weight of 82 kilograms (in pounds 181 lbs). He looks like a rockstar. There is no tattoo on his body.

His hair color was blonde and he generally used to keeps short hair. Michael had a fair skin tone with brown color eyes. He always wears a christ earring in his ear and keeps salt and pepper beard style.

Personal Life, Affairs, Children & Philanthropy

George was very opened about his personal life. He holds a bi-sexual personality. After the year 1998, he turned gay. When LGBT rights are active in the country. Before becoming gay he had affairs with so many beautiful actresses and models. Firstly in the year 1983, he dates with a professional dancer named “Pat Fernandez”. He loves her so much. But after some one year due to some reason, he broke up with her in 1984.

After that, he was in a relationship with “Kathy Jeung” who is a Chinese Make-up artist. He gives 4 years to this relationship and after that, he left Kathy in 1989. There are some rumors are created that, he was dating the famous actress named “Brooke Shields” in the year 1985. But it was not true; she was only his best friend.

In 1998, when LGBT rights are active, he turned gay. He falls in love with the famous fashion designer of Brazil named “Anselmo Feleppa”. After two years, Anselmo died due to some heart problems. In 1993, he feels so lonely without his lover. After that, in 1996 he gets in a relationship with “Kenneth Goss”. Goss is a multitalented person who works as a cheerleader coach, flight attendant, and the executive of sportswear of Dallas. He breaks up with him in 2009.

He focusing on his career and makes so many hits back to back. In the year 2012, Michael starts dating “Fadi Fawaz” who is a freelance photographer and celebrity hairstylist. He dates with him until his death in 2016. He doesn’t marry anyone and has no children.

In his personal life, he works so many good works as a philanthropist. He did so many social welfare works. Michael joined the “Ban Aid” campaign with some British pop starts and starts charity works. He also sang the song “Do They Know It’s Christmas?” for the children. In the year 1986, he joined the Prince’s Trust charity. In this, he performed with  “Every time You Go Away”.

After that, he participated in the HIV/AIDS charity fundraiser and LGBT rights campaign. He gives donations to the children for the education of AIDS. He was also a member of the Elton John AIDS Foundation. He joined so many charity works like Macmillan Cancer Support, Rainbow Trust Children’s Charity, Terrence Higgins Trust, and many more…

Career, Controversies & Net worth

George was a great singer and best performer. He starts his music career with his best friend “Andrew” in high school. They formed a music group and named it “Wham”. In this, he works duo and launched their first album named “Fantastic”. This album became a famous album in the country. This album includes hits songs like Young Guns, Club Tropicana and Wham Rap.

They reached huge success through Wham. after that, they released so many new albums and songs like Make It Big, Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Freedom, Everything She Wants, Careless Whisper, Do They Know It’s Christmas?, Nikita, Wrap Her Up, A Different Corner, etc. He works in Wham for five years and decided to make his solo career in the field of music. So he left the group Wham in 1986.

In the year 1987, he starts his single debut with the song I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me). this is the song which he sang a duet with the famous American singer Aretha Franklin. This song was so much loved by the public and becomes the award-winning song. George and Franklin were awarded Grammy Award for this song in the year 1988.

After that, he launched his first solo album named “Faith” in which he sang his first singles “I Want Your Sex”. This song also becomes the record-breaking song and comes in America’s top 40 songs. After that, he makes so many singles and albums like Father Figure, One More Try, Monkey, Listen without Prejudice Vol. 1, waiting for That Day, Freedom! ’90, Heal the Pain, Cowboys, Angels, Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael, Twenty Five If I Told You That, Amazing and many more… George also performed in so many live concerts and stage programs.

The Net worth of George Michael is around $175 million (as of 2019).

The celebrity also becomes part of controversies. He was arrested for lewd behavior with the under-covered police officer in California. After that, he becomes the part of a controversy when he launched his dingle song “Shoot the dog” in this song he showed a cartoon of US president George Bush with UK Prime Minister Tony Blair were in bed. This makes a bad effect on the public and he was asked to leave the country.

He was also arrested for the crashing of his car into the branch of Snappy Snaps in Hampstead, North London in 2010.

Trivia

• His zodiac sign was Cancer.
• George holds a British Nationality.
• He owned a Ferrari 599 GTB Fiorano car.
• He formed his first band “The Executive” in the year 1979. but he runs this band only for one year and closed in 1980.
• He loves to play Piano and bought a John Lennon’s Steinway Model Z piano. The price of the piano is worth $ 1.67 million.
• He returned his piano to Liverpool’s Beatles Story Museum.
• Michael loves to donate money in charity so he launched his “December Song” he gives a free download for this song as a hope of that, people will donate money.
• Symphonica was the last album of George which was released in 2014.
• He was an alcoholic.
• Michael loves smoking.
• He loves salads and chocolate.
• His favorite perfume was Le Male by Jean-Paul.
• Queen: The Rock Band, The Beatles, and Tom Jones were his favorite musicians and bands.
• There is an official Instagram account of George Michael, which is run by his team.