{"name":"George Michael","title":"George Michael","id":1688,"slug":"george-michael","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/api/v3/core/authors/1688/?format=json","bio_short":"George Michael (born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou on June 25, 1963) is of English Greek ancestry. Michael began his career by forming a band called The Executive together with his best friend Andrew Ridgeley, a fellow pupil at Bushey Meads School, though it did not survive for long.  It wasn't until he formed the duo <a href=\"http://www.last.fm/music/Wham%21\" class=\"bbcode_artist\">Wham!</a> together again with Ridgeley in 1981 that the success came for the band. Their first album, Fantastic!, was an instant success...","artist_img":"//guitarparty.overcastcdn.com/images/GeorgeMichaelgeo.2e16d0ba.fill-1200x675-c100.format-jpeg.jpg","songs":[{"id":1860,"title":"Careless Whisper","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/careless-whisper/"},{"id":28448,"title":"Enn jólin","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/enn-jolin/"},{"id":2772,"title":"Faith","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/faith/"},{"id":23218,"title":"Freedom","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/freedom-2/"},{"id":9902,"title":"Last Christmas","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/last-christmas/"},{"id":28136,"title":"Wake me up before you go-go","url":"https://www.guitarparty.com/songs/wake-me-up-before-you-go-go/"}]}