Boy George is a popular British singer and songwriter. It is a pioneer of the New Romantic movement. The fight is a rather controversial personality. He is a rebel, gay, style icon, former drug addict and an "active" Buddhist.
New Romance is a musical movement that emerged in the UK in the early 1980s. The musical direction arose as an alternative to the ascetic punk culture in many of its manifestations. The music celebrated glamour, flamboyant fashion and hedonism.
It seems that George wanted to succeed and try his hand at all areas. Fans of creativity say that Boy wrote the track "Karma Chameleon" about himself.
Childhood and youth of Boy George
George Allan (real name of the celebrity) was born in southeast London. The boy was raised by Catholics, who had a long rebellious tradition. Boy's great-uncle George was executed for fighting for Irish independence.
George was brought up in a large family. He recalls his childhood with a touch of sadness. The head of the family died at a young age. Dad never raised his son, raised his hand to mom and drank.
The artist's mother in her memoirs mentioned that her husband beat her, including at the moment when she was carrying a second child, Boy George, under her heart.
In the mid-1990s, the singer's younger brother Gerald, who suffered from schizophrenia, was accused of killing his wife. In a word, this family can hardly be called ideal.
George differed from his peers in that he wore women's clothes, put on makeup and did hair. He was hated by society, and he responded to him in return. At school, Boy was a rare guest. He treated his teachers with disrespect. The guy called the teachers by invented nicknames. At 15, he was expelled from school.
At 17 Boy left home. He worked part-time in a supermarket, and spent his evenings in gay clubs, with a glass of cheap alcohol in his hands. Often he came to such nightclubs, accompanied by Peter Anthony Robinson, who made Marilyn his pseudonym. The guys composed tracks and "dragged" from the works of David Bowie and Marc Bolan.
The creative path of Boy George
The debut of Boy George as a performer took place in the Bow Wow Wow team. The soloists of the group created a dance punk with a combination of "burundi beats", where he was invited by the former manager of the famous Sex Pistols group Malcolm McLaren. Boy took the place of the backing vocalist. He was known to the public under the creative pseudonym Lieutenant Lush.
Despite the fact that fans accepted Boy George's non-standard appearance, the band members were very worried that it was the backing vocalist who was always in the spotlight. George was soon asked to leave Bow Wow Wow.
In the early 1980s, 20-year-old O'Dowd created a project that was originally called Sex Gang Children. Then Praise of Lemmings and finally Culture Club. In addition to Boy George, the team included Roy Hay, Jew Jon Moss and Jamaican native Mickey Craig. By the way, then the singer took the pseudonym Boy George.
In 1982, the group's discography was replenished with a debut disc. We are talking about the LP Kissing to Be Clever. Several tracks on the compilation reached the top 10 of the US charts. The single Do You Really Want To Hurt Me took the 1st position in the charts of 12 countries. Boy George for several years was at the peak of popularity. He became an icon of beauty and style.
Color By Numbers is the second studio album to top the charts on both sides of the Atlantic. Soon a video clip appeared for the song "Karma Chameleon". The clip surprised the audience with its tolerance - to the tune of "white" and black Americans of both sexes in costumes of the early XNUMXth century, they are sailing on a steamboat along the Mississippi. Boy George at that time was dressed in a woman's suit with pigtails on his head.
The celebrity's discography includes dozens of albums. Unfortunately, Boy George has not been able to replicate the success he achieved as part of the Culture Club project. After the breakup of the group, the musician's popularity decreased. The most popular "independent" work was Jesus Loves You. The most harmonious songs are the Krishna hymn Bow Down Mister and the single Everything I Own.
Personal life of Boy George
Boy George's personal life has always been under the spotlight of the attention of journalists and fans. Everything was aggravated after the musician openly said in 2006 that he prefers men. Interestingly, in the last century, Boy publicly denounced the homophobic policies of Margaret Thatcher. But tastes are changing.
Boy George met with the lead singer of the band Culture Club John Moss. To date, the musician is married and has 3 children. The fight admitted that the relationship with Moss is one of the brightest. The singer dedicated many songs to the man.
Jon Moss turned out to be unfaithful to Boy. He cheated on celebrities. Boy George used drugs. He tried almost all illegal drugs, except for intravenous ones. George got rid of his harmful addiction thanks to Buddhism and treatment at the clinic.
In 2009, the singer went to prison for 1,5 years. George was imprisoned for assaulting Carlsen, an escort agency employee. Four months later, Boy was released for good behavior. He spent the rest of his term under house arrest.
A few years later, the celebrity gave Cyprus an Orthodox icon, which he acquired in the 1980s. The icon was stolen 11 years before it was bought by George from the Church of St. Harlampy during the Turkish invasion of Cyprus.
In 2015, Boy Johnson was a mentor for the music project The Voice. Around the same period of time, the singer turned out to be careless. He spoke about the fact that he had an intimate relationship with famous singer Roy Nelson Prince. Boy later retracted his words.
Fans who want to get into George's biography should definitely watch the movie Worrying About Boy. The film is dedicated to the biography of a popular singer. George Boy was entrusted to play the young 18-year-old actor Douglas Booth. Boy George was pleased with how the actor managed to convey his image.
Boy George today
Boy George currently lives in London. He owns real estate in Ibiza and an apartment in New York. Boy George is registered in social networks. The singer looks young and fit. The celebrity says that the secret of his beauty is in a healthy diet. And envious people are sure that the secret of his youth is liposuction and “beauty injections”.
In June 2019, it became known that a documentary would be made about George. The release date is still unknown.
In 2020, the presentation of the artist's new album took place. The collection was called Clouds. The video for the song of the same name was filmed by the performer on the iPhone.
