Biography: George Michael, George Thomas, Georges Delerue, Geri Halliwell, Gilbert & Sullivan, Gilbert White, Gino Marinuzzi, Jr., Giuseppe Becce, Glen Sansone, Gloria Estefan,

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George Michael Biography, Photos, Pictures

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (George Michael) achieved fame in the duo Wham! in his native UK in 1982 Through 1986, he and his partner, Andrew Ridgeley, scored hit after hit in a variety of styles from rap to up-tempo pop to slow ballads

George Thomas Biography, Photos, Pictures

Bluegrass and country blues picker George Thomas — based out of Powhaten, VA — has backed up Mitch Harrell as both an instrumentalist and recording engineer Thomas released a solo CD in 2000; obviously grateful for the experience, he entitled the effort I’m Thankful

Georges Delerue Biography, Photos, Pictures

French film composer Georges Delerue studied his craft under prestigious movie musician Darius Milhaud More interested in establishing mood than churning out hit theme songs, Delerue contributed the scores to over 150 motion pictures

Geri Halliwell Biography, Photos, Pictures

The former Ginger Spice, pop singer Geri Halliwell was born August 6, 1972 in London; a onetime topless model and Turkish game show hostess, in March of 1994 she answered an advertisement for an all-girl vocal group, and with fellow applicants Victoria Adams, Melanie Brown and Melanie Chisholm formed the nucleus of what later (with the addition of fifth member Emma Bunton) became the Spice Girls

Gilbert & Sullivan Biography, Photos, Pictures

The songwriting team of William S Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan was among the most successful and enduring of the 19th century; their comic operas remain immensely popular over a century after the duo’s final work, and are viewed today as forerunners of contemporary musical theater

Gilbert White Biography, Photos, Pictures

Violinist Gilbert White has performed and recorded with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra since the ’90s, appearing on a series of soundtrack and classical pop releases with which the mighty symphony has expanded its core audience

Gino Marinuzzi, Jr. Biography, Photos, Pictures

Gino Marinuzzi Jr has enjoyed a half-century as one of Italy’s top movie composers and one of the great innovators in electronic and experimental music The son of Gino Marinuzzi (1882-1945), one of Italy’s most renowned conductors (and a composer of some significance as well), he was born in New York in 1920, and studied in Milan

Giuseppe Becce Biography, Photos, Pictures

Italian by birth, Giuseppe Becce was the first German film composer of significance and one of the first major figures in European film music Becce took minor instrumental studies at the conservatory of the University of Padua before relocating to Berlin in 1900, taking composition with Leopold Schmidt

Glen Sansone Biography, Photos, Pictures

Native New Yorker Glen Sansone is currently the Managing Director of CMJ, which publishes the leading alternative trade magazine CMJ New Music Report In his ten years at the company, Sansone has written columns for CMJ New Music Report and its consumer-oriented sister publication, CMJ New Music Monthly, covering genres such as hip-hop, R&B, soul, acid jazz and adult-alternative, as well as enough rock to build a house

Gloria Estefan Biography, Photos, Pictures

As one of the biggest new stars to emerge during the mid-’80s, singer Gloria Estefan predated the coming Latin pop explosion by a decade, scoring a series of propulsive dance hits rooted in the rhythms of her native Cuba before shifting her focus to softer, more ballad-oriented fare

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