BIOGRAPHICAL DETAILS
Full Name: Kylie Ann Minogue
Description: Vocalist, Actress, Australia
Known For: Single – “Cant Get You out of My Head” – 2001
Instruments: Voice
Music Styles: Easy Listening, Rock
Location: VIC, Australia
Date Born: 28th May 1968
Location Born: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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BIOGRAPHICAL PROFILE
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE. born 28 May 1968), often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer-songwriter and actress, working and living in London. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before beginning her career as a recording artist in 1987.
Minogue has achieved worldwide record sales of more than 70 million, and has received notable music awards, including multiple ARIA and Brit Awards and a Grammy Award. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and received a Mo Award for “Australian Entertainer of the Year” for her live performances. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 “for services to music”. In the same year she was appointed by the French Government as a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the junior grade of France’s highest cultural honour, for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. In 2011 her hit single “I Should Be So Lucky” was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Sounds of Australia registry. The same year, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) degree by Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, Minogue was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
Her first single, “The Loco-Motion”, spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest-selling single of the decade in Australia. This led to a contract with the British songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single “I Should Be So Lucky”, both performed well on international charts, particularly in Australia and the United Kingdom. Initially presented as a “girl next door”, Minogue attempted to convey a more mature style in her music and public image. Her singles were well received, but after four albums her sales were declining, and she left Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992 to establish herself as an independent performer. Her next single, “Confide in Me”, reached number one in Australia and was a hit in several European countries in 1994, and a duet with Nick Cave, “Where the Wild Roses Grow”, brought Minogue a greater degree of artistic credibility. Drawing inspiration from a range of musical styles and artists, Minogue took creative control over the songwriting for her next album, Impossible Princess (1997).
Minogue returned to prominence in 2000 with the single “Spinning Around” and the dance-oriented album Light Years, and she performed during the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Her music videos showed a more sexually provocative and flirtatious personality and several hit singles followed. “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” reached number one in more than 40 countries, and the album Fever (2001) was a hit in many countries, including the US, a market in which Minogue had previously received little recognition. In 2005, in the middle of a concert tour, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, forcing her to cancel the tour. After treatment, she resumed her career in 2006 with the Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. In 2009, she embarked upon her For You, For Me tour, her first concert tour of the US and Canada.
In 2014, Minogue released her 12th album Kiss Me Once, while also appearing as a judge on the third series of The Voice UK and the third series of The Voice Australia. Minogue later confirmed that she would not be returning to The Voice UK for the fourth series due to the dates clashing with her tour.
Kylie Ann Minogue was born 28 May 1968 in Melbourne, Australia, the oldest child of Ronald Charles Minogue, an accountant of Irish ancestry and a Welsh mother, Carol Ann (née Jones), a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales. Through her maternal line, Kylie has an English grandmother. She is the oldest of three children, born between 1968 and 1971; middle brother Brendan is a news cameraman in Australia, while youngest sibling Dannii Minogue is also a pop singer and television host. The Minogue children were raised in Surrey Hills, Melbourne, and educated at Camberwell High School.
At the 2000 Sydney Olympics closing ceremony, Minogue performed ABBA’s “Dancing Queen” and her single “On a Night Like This”. She then embarked on the On a Night Like This Tour, which played to sell-out crowds in Australia and the United Kingdom. The tour incorporated Burlesque and theatre and cited the style of Broadway shows such as 42nd Street, films such as Anchors Aweigh, South Pacific, the Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers musicals of the 1930s and the live performances of Bette Midler. She was praised for her new material and her reinterpretations of some of her greatest successes. She won a “Mo Award” for Australian live entertainment as “Performer of the Year”. She also appeared in the 2001 film, Moulin Rouge! as “The Green Fairy”.
In October 2001, she released her eighth studio album Fever. The album contained disco elements combined with 1980s electropop and synthpop. It reached number one in Australia, United Kingdom, and throughout Europe, eventually achieving worldwide sales in excess of eight million.[66] The album’s lead single “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” became the biggest success of her career, reaching number one in more than forty countries and sold over 5 million copies. She won four ARIA Awards including a “Most Outstanding Achievement” award, and two Brit Awards, for “Best international female solo artist” and “Best international album”. Following extensive airplay by American radio, Capitol Records released the song and the album Fever in the US in 2002. The album debuted on the Billboard 200 albums chart at number three, and “Can’t Get You out of My Head” reached number seven on the Hot 100. The subsequent singles “In Your Eyes”, “Love at First Sight” and “Come into My World” were successful throughout the world, and Minogue established a presence in the mainstream North American market, particularly in the club scene. She followed the success of the album by touring the United States with the Jingle Ball festival. In April 2002, Minogue embarked on the KylieFever2002 tour which became her biggest production she had put on to date. Later that year, she worked in a voice role on the animated film The Magic Roundabout, which was released in 2005 in Europe. In 2003, she received a Grammy Award nomination for “Best Dance Recording” for “Love at First Sight”, and the following year won the same award for “Come into My World”.
In November 2003, Minogue released her ninth studio album Body Language following an invitation-only concert, titled Money Can’t Buy, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The album downplayed the disco style and was inspired by 1980s artists such as Scritti Politti, The Human League, Adam and the Ants and Prince, blending their styles with elements of hip hop. The sales of the album were lower than anticipated after the success of Fever, though the first single, “Slow”, was a number-one hit in the United Kingdom and Australia. The album released two more singles, “Red Blooded Woman” and “Chocolate”. In the US, “Slow” reached number-one on the club chart and it received a Grammy Award nomination in the Best Dance Recording category. While Body Language achieved first week sales of 43,000 and declined significantly in the second week.
In January 2013, Minogue and her manager Terry Blamey, whom she had worked with since the start of her singing career, parted ways. The following month, she was signed to Roc Nation for a management deal. In September, she was featured on Italian singer-songwriter Laura Pausini’s single “Limpido”, which was a number-one hit in Italy and has received a nomination for “World’s Best Song” at the 2013 World Music Awards. In the same month, she was hired as a coach in the third series of BBC One’s talent competition The Voice UK, alongside record producer and Black Eyed Peas member, will.i.am, Kaiser Chiefs’ lead singer Ricky Wilson and pop singer Sir Tom Jones. Minogue’s first episode on the show aired on 11 January 2014. Minogue will not return for the second series of the show, citing tour commitments as the reason for her departure. In November, she was hired as one of the new coaches for the third season of The Voice Australia.
In March 2014, Minogue released her 12th studio album, Kiss Me Once. The album featured contributions from Sia Furler, Mike Del Rio, Cutfather, Pharell Williams, MNEK and Ariel Rechtshaid. It peaked at number one in Australia and number two in the United Kingdom. The singles from the album, “Into the Blue” and “I Was Gonna Cancel”, did not chart inside the top ten of the UK Singles Chart, peaking at number 12 and number 59. The album and Minogue’s further musical releases will be distributed by Warner Bros. Records, following the acquisition within Warner Music Group and the purchase of Parlophone from EMI Music.
In September 2014, Minogue will embark on the Kiss Me Once Tour.
In November 2004, she released her second official greatest hits album entitled Ultimate Kylie. The album yielded two singles “I Believe in You” and “Giving You Up”. “I Believe in You” was later nominated for a Grammy Award in the category of “Best Dance Recording”.
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