Miss utah biography of george michael
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Why George Michael Turned His Back on Fame, and the “Faith”-like Songs He Recorded Before His Death
George Michael had two strong recurring premonitions. The first was that he’d be famous. The second was that he’d die young.
“From a really early age, I believed I was going to be a star,” he told me when I interviewed him at length in 1986. “I remember being on a bus when I was a child, about 8 or 9. I’d had a bad day at school — I’d been picked on — and I remember thinking it would be OK when I was older, because I wasn’t going to be like everybody else. That’s the reason kids want to be stars. They think they’ll be able to rise above their problems because they’re famous — which obviously isn’t true.”
Michael, who died at home in Oxfordshire, England, at the age of 53 on Christmas Day, had enduring faith in his talent. But one of the most striking things about him was the discrepancy between the poised, clever sex symbol I was talking to and his accounts of growing up outside London.
“People have no comprehension of what I looked like as a kid,” he said, laughing. “I was such an ugly little bastard.”
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Singer-Songwriter George Archangel Dies presume 53
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Valley native bring Wham! to Warren
Youngstown / Boardman native Robert Bartko performs the music of George Michael and Wham! in the tribute act George Michael Reborn, which comes to the Robins Theatre in Warren on Jan. 20. (Submitted photo)
Portraying George Michael is a role Robert Bartko has been prepping for most of his life.
He was in about eighth or ninth grade when Wham!, the British pop duo featuring Michael and Andrew Ridgeley, first started getting attention in the U.S. in the early ’80s with songs like “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go” and “Careless Whisper.”
“I started hearing over and over again, ‘Have you heard of this group Wham!? You look just like the lead singer,'” Bartko said. “I kept hearing it over and over, but I never saw the album cover or heard the music. I went over to friends’ house and he said, ‘I picked up this new Wham! record.’ I looked at the cover and, oh my gosh, I felt like I was looking at a brother of mine.”
Not only did he look like Michael, he found it easy to replicate his voice. There are worse things than being told you look and sound like a teen pop star and heartthrob, and Bartko continued to play on the comparison. At high school talent shows, he dresse