Shirlie Holliman
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Shirlie Kemp (née Holliman, born 18 April 1962) is an English singer who rose to prominence with Wham in the 1980s. Pepsi & Shirlie are a team of two female Pepsi and Shirlie.
Early years
Shirlie Holliman was the fourth of five children born to Arthur and Margaret Holliman and raised on a council estate in Bushey, Hertfordshire. Holliman intended to teach horse riding lessons at age 18, but after she developed hay fever and had nothing else to do, her then boyfriend Andrew Ridgeley suggested she attend and dance while his buddy George Michael's band performed in a local pub.
Personal life
Holliman married Spandau Ballet bassist and singer Martin Kemp, and she resigned from steady performance after her daughter's birth. Holliman had met Kemp through a mutual friend George Michael, and the two married in 1988 in St. Lucia. They had two children: daughter Harley Moon Kemp (born August 1989) and son Roman Kemp (born January 1993). In the Spice Girls' "Mama" music video, Holliman and daughter Harley appeared briefly together.
Holliman took time out from work to care for her husband following his brain tumor diagnosis in September 1996, and the family migrated from Hampstead Heath to Muswell Hill to allow Kemp to recover. Holliman then went back to work with Aegean, a music and entertainment company.
Holliman and her husband wrote Shirlie and Martin Kemp's Love Story, an autobiography-relationship guidebook that was published in October 2020. According to the Kemps, the book was released in reaction to "emerging media concern" in the couple's long-term friendship.
Holliman appeared in the film Roman Kemp: Our Silent Emergency in 2021, in which Kemp revealed that he came close to suicide after suffering with depression for 13 years.
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. After Lee left to join the Style Council and later marry its lead singer Paul Weller, she was replaced by "Pepsi" DeMacque, and this duo performed on all the Wham! songs and concerts. As George Michael desired to create music targeted to a more sophisticated audience than Wham!'s primarily teenage fan base, the announcement of Wham!'s break-up was made in the spring of 1986, with a grand finale concert at Wembley Stadium on 28 June 1986, called 'The Final'.
During their Wham! career, Holliman and DeMacque decided to form their own act, named Pepsi & Shirlie. Created immediately after the Wembley concert with an upbeat and more pop genre sound, they had two UK top 10 hits: "Heartache", which was produced by Phil Fearon and Tambi Fernando, reaching #2 on the UK Singles Chart behind the #1 hit of George Michael and Aretha Franklin's "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)", and "Goodbye Stranger", produced by Tambi Fernando and Pete Hammond, which reached #9.
The duo with DeMacque went on hiatus in 1989, but briefly returned in 2000 to record backing vocals on the UK number one Geri Halliwell hit "Bag It Up". The duo also re-united to perform for the 'Here and Now 10th Anniversary tour' which began on 24 June 2011.
On 29 November 2002, Holliman was a back-up vocalist in the Concert for George, a concert celebrating the music of the late George Harrison.
In November 2019, Holliman and her husband released their first album together as Martin & Shirlie, titled In the Swing of It via Sony Music. The album contains duet covers of classic jazz standards plus two original songs written by their daughter Harleymoon Kemp.