- Born
- Birth nameKylie Ann Minogue
- Nicknames
- The Princess of Pop
- The Goddess of Pop
- The Pint-Sized Pop Princess
- The Queen of the Manchester Arena
- Height5′ 1″ (1.55 m)
- Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May, 1968. The eldest of three children, Kylie's acting career began early, but it was her role as "Charlene" in the Australian soap, Neighbours (1985), which established Kylie as an international star. Her singing career began, purely by accident, when a record company executive heard Kylie's rendition of Little Eva's 1962 hit, "The Loco-Motion". She signed with PWL Records and hit-makers Stock/Aitken/Waterman in 1987. Five albums and a greatest hits compilation followed, and she made history by having more than 20 consecutive top ten hits in the UK. Her motion picture debut came with the starring role of "Lola" in The Delinquents (1989). She left PWL Records in 1992 to head in a decidedly more mature musical direction, and her self-titled debut on deconstruction records was released in 1994, spawning chart hits like "Confide In Me" and "Put Yourself In My Place". Kylie's doings were always a favorite subject of the press, but she really made waves with her controversial 1995 duet with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, "Where the Wild Roses Grow". 1997 saw the release of Kylie's first single in more than 3 years, "Some Kind of Bliss", co-written and produced by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of The Manic Street Preachers.- IMDb Mini Biography By: Jonathan Ruskin
- ChildrenNo Children
- Parents
- RelativesDannii Minogue(Sibling)Brendan Minogue(Sibling)
- She is the first, and the only, female recording artist in UK chart history to have a number one album in four consecutive decades, achieving this in the 1980s, 1990s, 2000s and 2010s.
- On account of the extensive media coverage of her illness, Australian doctors stated that the number of mammographies in Australia rose by 40%, which they call the "Kylie effect".
- Performed at the closing ceremony of the 2000 Summer Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
- Currently holds the record for the biggest selling female artist in Australian concert history, with ticket sales in excess of half a million.
- Her song "Especially for You" is the second highest selling single of the 1980s in the United Kingdom by a female artist. Only Jennifer Rush is above her.
- I never say never about a lot of things. Whatever you want, then more power to you. If someone feels they have to live up to a certain image, then I can kind of understand that pressure because I'm considered to be one of those images, and I know how unreal they are.
- People see me as Kylie the singer. It would be a dream for me to be taken seriously as an actress.
- I don't have to try to be a sex bomb, I am one!
- "I'm totally shattered. Everything has been so crazy. I've been trying to get my act together, but I am so exhausted I can barely string a sentence together. Making this album has really taken its toll." (on recording the Fever album).
- When I was eight, my pals and I went up to my bedroom, put on our party frocks and mimed to ABBA records using broom handles as microphones.
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