Pepsi and shirley biography
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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 1980s with Wham!
Pepsi and shirley biography
and as part of the duo Pepsi & Shirlie.
Early years
Shirley Holliman was the fourth child of five, born to Arthur and Margaret Holliman and raised on a council estate in Bushey, near Watford, Hertfordshire.[1] Holliman intended to train as a horse riding instructor,[2] but after she developed hay fever at the age of 18 and with nothing else to do, her then-boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she come and dance while he and his friend George Michael's band played a local gig.[1]
Music career
Holliman was never a band member of what became Wham!
but, like her friend Dee C. Lee, was paid on a per performance basis as a backing singer, and continued to live with her parents.[1] After Lee left to join the Style Council – she later married that group's lead singer Paul Well