Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Associated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
The Aussie pop princess first topped the UK chart in January 1988 with debut hit I Should Be So Lucky. Since then she has sold 40 million albums worldwide and holds the record for the most-played female artist on UK radio.
The ceremony in front of 1,200 guests raised money for the Brit School and Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
Minogue will release latest single 2 Hearts on November 12, followed by her new album, X, on November 26.
Music award for pop icon Kylie - Oct 29 2007
Kylie Minogue is to be honoured with a prestigious music industry award.
The Australian pop princess is to be presented with the Music Industry Trust’s Award in "recognition of her universally acclaimed status as an icon of pop and style achieved over a 20 year career which has seen her reinvent, experiment and inspire".
Previous winners of the award, now in its 16th year, include Sir Elton John and Peter Gabriel.
Kylie, who beat breast cancer after being diagnosed in 2005, said: "It is an incredible honour to be the recipient of this year’s Music Industry Trust’s Award and I am truly thrilled to be recognised in this way."
According to this year’s co-sponsors, UK music licensing companies PRS and PPL, the award has raised more than £2.7 million for its two charities, Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy and the BRIT Trust.
David Munns, chairman of the award committee, said: "There is no doubt that of our 15 award recipients to date, Kylie is by far the most glamorous.
"She deserves this award for her success over 20 years, staying at the top in one of the toughest professions and inspiring millions with her grace, dignity and humanity."
The ceremony in front of 1,200 guests from the UK will take place at the Grosvenor Hotel in London.
Kylie, 39, releases her new album, X, on November 26 and the single 2 Hearts comes out on November 12.
Earlier this month she picked up the Idol accolade at the Q Awards.
Kylie planning world tour? - Oct 18 2007
Kylie Minogue is apparently set to celebrate her 40th birthday next year with another world tour.
The pop princess, who stepped out for the premiere of her new film White Diamond this week, has already been working on ideas with her creative director William Baker in the lead up to the big day on May 28, reports The Sun.
William - who is also directing the new West End production of Rent - apparently told the paper: "I am so busy. I’m heading back into the studio with Kylie in February to start training for the tour we want to do in June.
"It’s going to be fabulous. I have a couple of ideas but they need a bit of work. It takes ages to pull it all together so we want to take our time on it."
He added: "And we have a musical film we are working on with Denise Van Outen, set in 1950s Soho. And of course I have Rent which I am directing. Kylie has helped me on that too."
Kylie film ’a tribute to fans’ - Oct 18 2007
Kylie Minogue paid tribute to the support she received from her fans as she attended the premiere of her new documentary charting her return to the stage following her battle with breast cancer.
The singer chatted with fans and posed for photographs in London’s Leicester Square before the screening of White Diamond.
The film, directed by her creative director William Baker, goes behind the scenes of the Showgirl tour and includes interviews with all of those involved in her comeback.
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In 1986 Kylie was offered the role of Charlene Mitchell in upcoming soap Neighbours. Her storylines made her a household name in both Australia and the UK and the on screen wedding between Charlene and Scott Robinson (played by Jason Donovan) attracted record numbers of viewers.
Whilst performing The Locomotion on stage at a benefit in 1987 Kylie was spotted by representatives of Mushroom Records who signed her up and released the track. The success of her first release saw Kylie travel to London to meet with pop moguls Stock Aitken and Waterman who penned I Should Be So Lucky for her on the spot. The single was a smash and launched Kylie as one to watch and indeed her debut album became the biggest seller of the year here in the UK.
Panned by critics, Especially For You, a duet recorded with Jason Donovan (by this time a pop star in his own right) was a huge hit in 1989 but Kylie’s follow up album, Enjoy Yourself, whilst successful in Europe and Australia flopped in the US, resulting in the singer being dropped by her American label.
1990 saw Kylie make the first radical adjustment to her image. Gone was the cutesy girl next door in favour of a more sexy look for Better The Devil You Know, while a relationship with bad boy rocker Michael Hutchence cemented Kylie’s new ’cool’ status. Rhythm of Love produced several well received dance-orientated singles and was enough of a success to persuade Kylie to produce a further album despite her contract with PWA being up. Let’s Get To It was a critical success but was her first release to miss the top ten. Realising that she was stifled by the Stock Aitken and Waterman formula she recorded three new tracks for a Greatest Hits album and made a break for it.
So it was time for another change in direction. Kylie went indie following her signing to Deconstruction Records and Confide in Me spent several weeks at the Aussie top spot. The self titled album released alongside sold reasonably well although it received mixed reviews from the press while follow up singles eached top twenty. Elsewhere Kylie went extra dark, appearing on Nick Cave’s Where The Wild Roses Grow, a move which promised a more credible pop star in the future.
By 1997 Kylie had overhauled her image again, and the release of Impossible Princess the following year reflected that. A collaboration with the Manic Street Preachers wasn’t enough to stop the album from becoming the least successful of her releases and the end of Kylie’s pop career looked near.
However a split with Deconstruction resulted in Kylie hooking up with Parlophone and in an explosion of gold glitter and disco the pop starlet burst back on to the scene in an unfeasibly small pair of gold hotpants to promote Spinning Around and accompanying album Light Years. The single was Kylie’s first UK number one in ten years and resulted in a duet with Robbie Williams and a sell out tour. However, it was 2001’s Fever which cemented Kylie’s future. The unforgettable video for impossibly catchy single Can’t Get You Out Of My Head ensured that the track reached number one in over 40 countries. Follow up singles were almost equally successful and the awards flooded in while next album, Body Language, was another hit while Ultimate Kylie, a greatest hits release was accompanied by a lavish tour.
It was during this time that Kylie was diagnosed with breast cancer, much to the shock of her fans. Her headline slot at Glastonbury was cancelled and the rest of the Showgirl tour was postponed but after treatment from Australia and France’s best doctors Kylie was back on the scene looking better than ever. She began work on a new album and released a children’s book The Showgirl Princess closely followed by a perfume, Darling. She resumed her Showgirl tour and split with French boyfriend Olivier Martinez.
Elsewhere Kylie’s film career has been slightly less successful than her musical one. From The Deliquents to Street Fighter she has been panned for her on screen work her only success coming in the form of the green absinthe fairy in Baz Luhrmann’s Moulin Rouge!
updated March 2007
November 2007