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Birth Name:
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou
Birth Place:
East Finchley, North London, England
Ethnicity:
Greek Cypriot, English
The pop singer was born to a Greek Cypriot Father and an English Mother.
Many sites state that his maternal grandmother was Jewish but raised her children not knowing about their Jewish heritage. Apparently she did this during World War II to protect her family from being persecuted. George’s maternal grandfather was English.
However blamegrandma.blogspot.com disproves the Jewish claims.
Source:
- http://blamegrandma.blogspot.com/2010/09/george-michael-north-london-jew.html
- http://www.jewtastic.com/posts/5056
- http://www.latimes.com/
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I forgot to mention. Both Greeks and Cypriots are Greek orthodox Christians, nothing to do with Jews
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Cypriots are Greek. Different constitutions but same people, same language, same religion, same traditions. Like mother and kid.
History (source: Wikipedia so some bits may be a bit innacurate): ‘Settled by Mycenean Greeks in the 2nd millennium BC, the island also experienced long periods of Greek rule under the Ptolemies and the Byzantines (Greeks). In 333 B.C., Alexander of Macedon conquered the island from the Persians. The Ottoman Empire conquered the island in 1571 and it remained under Ottoman control for over three centuries. It was placed under British administration in 1878 until it was granted independence in 1960, becoming a member of the Commonwealth the following year. In 1974, following 11 years of intercommunal violence and an attempted coup d’état by Greek Cypriot nationalists,Turkey invaded and occupied the northern portion of the island. The intercommunal violence and subsequent Turkish invasion led to the displacement of hundreds of thousands of Cypriots and the establishment of a separate Turkish Cypriot political entity in the north. The Turkish-controlled area in the north,called itself the ‘Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus’which is NOT recognised by any country worldwide apart from Turkey.
It worths mentioning that famous singers (e.g. Jennifer Lopez) cancelled their shows in the Turkish-invaded part as soon as they got informed that this part is not recognised by any country in the world (except Turkey of course). So, yes George Michael is Cypriot (Greek Cypriot)
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True, but even by your own accounts, Greeks and Greek Cypriots are separated by thousands of years, long enough to develop their own unique genetic patterns etc.
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“Georgios” and “Kypriakos Hadjioannou”: Guys, you are confusing geographical denominations with ethnic ones and ethnicity with nationality. Tricky differences those.
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George Michael is CYPRIOT not Greek. Being Cypriot, that means he is MIDDLE EASTERN. Cyprus is geographically found in the Middle East. And he looks far more Middle Eastern than anything else…
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i love his music and i really don’t care is he jewish or not …
for me he looks greek … more exotic than typical british man
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According to this, his mother wasn’t Jewish after all
http://blamegrandma.blogspot.com/2010/09/george-michael-north-london-jew.html
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As a Cypriot, George Michael is of Middle Eastern extraction.
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On the show aressted development there is a kid named george michael also very off handedly there is a kid i make fun of in school named Chris Michael thats why i started making fun of him
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Was his maternal grandma a Ash. Jew or a Seph. Jew? If she was a Ash. Jew she really isn’t Semitic.
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