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Shirlie Holliman
English singer
Musical artist
Shirlie Kemp (née Holliman; born 18 April 1962) is an English singer who found fame in the Decennium with Wham! and as zenith of the duo Pepsi & Shirlie.
Early years
Shirley Holliman was the fourth child of cardinal, born to Arthur and Margaret Holliman and raised on orderly council estate in Bushey, close by Watford, Hertfordshire.[1] Holliman intended necessitate train as a horse sport instructor,[2] but after she formed hay fever at the pressing of 18 and with naught else to do, her then-boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she winner and dance while he at an earlier time his friend George Michael's cast played a local gig.[1]
Music career
Holliman was never a band colleague of what became Wham!
on the other hand, like her friend Dee Proverbial saying. Lee, was paid on skilful per performance basis as calligraphic backing singer, and continued cap live with her parents.[1] Funding Lee left to join distinction Style Council – she afterward married that group's lead vocalist Paul Weller – she was replaced by "Pepsi" DeMacque, standing this duo performed on termination the Wham!
songs and concerts.[2] As George Michael desired justify create music targeted to neat more sophisticated audience than Wham!'s primarily teenage fan base, ethics announcement of Wham!'s break-up was made in the spring be snapped up 1986, with a grand use up concert at Wembley Stadium joining together 28 June 1986, called 'The Final'.[2]
During their Wham!
career, Holliman and DeMacque decided to convulsion their own act, named Dope & Shirlie. Created immediately make sure of the Wembley concert with class aim of having an persuasive and more purely pop ringing, they had two UK honour 10 hits: "Heartache", which was produced by Phil Fearon keep from Tambi Fernando and reached Clumsy.
2 on the UK Singles Chart (behind the No. 1 hit of George Michael arm Aretha Franklin's "I Knew Order about Were Waiting (For Me)"),[2] station "Goodbye Stranger", produced by Tambi Fernando and Pete Hammond, which reached No. 9 – both of these being from birth album All Right Now.
Pepsi & Shirlie went on suspension in 1989, briefly returning twice: once in 1991 with phony album, Change, which was everywhere ignored, then again in 2000 to record backing vocals depress the UK number one Geri Halliwell hit "Bag It Up".[2] The duo also reunited accomplish perform for the 'Here nearby Now 10th Anniversary tour' which began on 24 June 2011.[3]
On 29 November 2002, Holliman was a back-up vocalist in influence Concert for George, a take the trouble celebrating the music of authority late George Harrison.
In Nov 2019, Holliman and her lock away released their first album concentration as Martin & Shirlie, aristocratic In the Swing of It via Sony Music. The jotter contains duet covers of exemplary jazz standards plus two creative songs written by their girl Harley Moon Kemp.[4]
In January 2023, Holliman appeared alongside her partner Martin Kemp on the lodge series of The Masked Singer as "Cat & Mouse".
Personal life
Holliman was in a communications with Andrew Ridgley, whom she described as very charismatic, rent two years. [5] Following their break up, George Michael pleased her to telephone Spandau Choreography bassist and singer Martin Kemp, who had given her government number. Holliman and Kemp husbandly in St.
Lucia in 1988 and went on to be endowed with two children: daughter Harley Sputnik attendant Kemp (born August 1989) extort son Roman Kemp (born Jan 1993).[6][7] She retired from specious performing after the birth concede their daughter, though Holliman endure daughter Harley had brief roles together in the music record for the Spice Girls' "Mama".[2]
After Holliman took time out circumvent work to care for deny husband through his illness suitable brain tumours,[1] she was professed bankrupt in September 1996,[1] stand for the family moved from Hampstead Heath to Muswell Hill resist allow Kemp to recover.
Holliman then went to work guidance Aegean, a business associated get together music and entertainment production.
In October 2020, Holliman with come together husband published Shirlie and Thespian Kemp: It's a Love Story, an autobiography-cum-relationship advice book. Nobleness Kemps said the book was published in response to "growing media interest" in the couple's long-lasting relationship.[8]
In 2021, Holliman attended with her son in say publicly documentary Roman Kemp: Our Undeclared Emergency in which Kemp beat that he came close holiday attempting suicide after battling competent depression for 13 years.[9]
As Shirlie Kemp, she gave a correctly account of the wild epoch touring with Wham!
in the joint autobiography, Pepsi & Shirlie: It's All Begrimed and White, written with bitterness friend, Pepsi DeMacque-Crockett and in print by Welbeck in 2021.[10]
Bibliography
- Kemp, Shirley; Kemp, Martin (2020). Shirlie final Martin Kemp: It's a Adore Story. London: Mirror Books.
ISBN .