Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue (born May 28, 1968) is an Australia-born actor and singer who has been based in the United Kingdom for nearly a decade. She is known - particularly in the tabloid press - for her pert bottom.
She appeared in several Australian television series as a child and teenager, including Young Talent Time and The Henderson Kids, before rising to prominence in 1987 with her role in the Australian soap opera Neighbours, where she starred alongside Jason Donovan. Her recording career began with a boppy cover of The Loco-Motion in 1988. Working with the British producers Stock Aitken Waterman, responsible for many 80s pop hits, she recorded a sequence of similarly teen-oriented pop tunes including "Better the Devil You Know", "I Should Be So Lucky", and "Shocked". By the early 1990s, subsequent albums struggled to sell as well and she returned to acting in The Delinquents, a tale of Australian teenage life in the late 1950s (which was not a commercial success), and a small role in Street Fighter.
Her career was revived, particularly in Australia, with a dark, surreal duet with Nick Cave called "Where The Wild Roses Grow" in 1995. Her subsequent work, while still firmly in the pop mould, is generally viewed as more mature and sophisticated. While Minogue still retains a place in the iconography of 80s kitsch, her subsequent constant musical and image reinventions have allowed her career to progress beyond it.
She achieved critical and commercial acclaim in Australia, the UK, Europe and the Far East with her disco-flavoured album, "Light Years" (released 2000). She went on to release a further album, "Fever," which debuted in the American Billboard Charts at number 3. The album was heavily influenced by 80s electropop such as the Human League. The single "Can't Get You Out Of My Head" topped in charts in many countries including the UK and Australia, and reached the top spot in the American Billboard Dance Chart. In 2003 she released "Body Language," and the first single from it "Slow" topped the charts in the UK and Australia.
Kylie is the only female singer other than Madonna to reach number one on the charts in the 80's, the 90's and 00's.
She is the older sister of Dannii Minogue.
List of slected albums: (American release date listed)
- Kylie (1988)
- Enjoy Yourself (1989)
- Rhythm of Love (1990)
- Let's Get To It (1991)
- Kylie Minogue (1994)
- Impossible Princess (1997)
- Light Years (2001)
- Fever (2001)
- Body Language (2004)