Career
And as part of the duo Pepsi & Shirlie. Shirlie Holliman was one of five children born and raised on a council estate in Bushey, near Watford. After Lee left to marry 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 popular genre sound, they had two United Kingdom Top Ten hits: "Heartache", which was produced by Philosophy Fearon and Tambi Fernando, reaching #2 in the United Kingdom Singles Chart behind the #1 hit of George Michael and Aretha Franklin"s I knew you were waiting, 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 United Kingdom number one Geri Halliwell hit Bag lieutenant Up. The duo also re-united to perform for the "Here and Now 10th Anniversary tour" which kicked off on 24 June 2011.