Kylie Minogue
- Profession: Singer
- Place/Date of Birth: Melbourne, Australia, 28 May 2020
- Assiociated with: Dannii Minogue, Jason Donovan
Kylie's baby desire - Oct 31 2007
Kylie Minogue has apparently been overheard talking about how she is desperate to have children.
The Aussie pop princess was out on the tiles until the early hours after being honoured at the 2007 Music Industry Trust Awards - but it seems all she could think about was her desire to have a family.
"I'm pushing 40 and there's nothing I'd love more than to have kids. It would give me so much hope," the Daily Mirror quoted her as saying.
"Believe me, I'm desperately trying to find the right man."
She continued: "Until that happens I have children all around the world. I am Mother Earth."
Later, she raised her glass and toasted to "health, happiness, love and the future".
After the ceremony Kylie, her parents Carol and Ron, Scissor Sisters' Jake Shears and 10 close friends went to the Bungalow 8 Club in Covent Garden for a private shindig.
Kylie receives Industry Trust award - Oct 30 2007
Kylie Minogue was honoured by the record industry on Monday night at a gala ceremony in London.
The star received the Music Industry Trust’s Award in recognition of her 20-year-career. She was hailed as "an icon of pop and style" who has continued to "reinvent, experiment and inspire".
The 39-year-old singer has overcome breast cancer since being diagnosed in 2005 and is about to celebrate her comeback with a new album.
Fellow stars queued up to lavish her with praise.
The ceremony at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel featured video messages of celebrities paying tribute to Minogue.
There was a message from Minogue’s sister, X Factor judge Dannii. "I am so proud of you. It’s been an amazing journey and there’s still so much more to come. It’s been great to be there from the beginning," she said.
Minogue is the first woman in the event’s 16-year history to receive the award. Previous holders include Sir George Martin and Sir Elton John. "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," she said.
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.
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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
October 2007