Kylie Minogue Biography

Kylie Ann Minogue was born in Melbourne, Australia, May 28, 1968, age 43 years) is a singer, songwriter and actress Australia. He rose to fame in the late 1980s because of its role in the soap opera Neighbours, before she was a career as a pop singer.
Contracted by a group of producers and songwriters Stock, Aitken & Waterman (SAW) from the United Kingdom, the singer plays the 155 cm this success worldwide hit song, but his fame began to fade in the early 1990's. After leaving the SAS in 1992, he tried his own career as an independent singer-songwriter, distancing himself from earlier work. Although here he is getting hit several times, her albums did not sell much, and even the least amount of sales achieved in the span of his career.


In 2000, he returned as a musician renowned dance / pop and through the provocative music videos and concerts are magnificent. Minogue has put his career as one of the most durable and successful entertainers in the world of pop music today, and in Europe and Australia has become one of the celebrities and the most famous sex symbol. In Australia, after many critics derided at first, he was recognized for his achievements and he holds the record for concert ticket sales ever for a female artist, and the only female entertainer who has nine singles in the top of the charts Australia. He has now sold more than 60 million records.


Early career

Born in Melbourne, Australia, Minogue is the eldest child of Ron Minogue, an accountant Irish descent, and Carol Jones, a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales. Her sister, Dannii Minogue, is also a pop singer, and her brother, Brendan, works as a cameraman in Australia.


Minogue sisters began their careers on Australian television, [3] and since the age of twelve, Kylie plays a minor role in the soap operas such as The Sullivans and Skyways, before he played a major role in The Henderson Kids. He began performing singing in 1983 on the weekly music program, Young Talent Time, which also featured Dannii as a permanent cast. Dannii success in this program cover Kylie's acting achievements, until Kylie play a role in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986.



In the soap opera Neighbours, Minogue role as Charlene Mitchell, a garage mechanic wanita.Ia married characters in the series, played by Jason Donovan, real lover at the time, who earned the highest rating a record 20 million viewers.


Fame in Australia began to look when he became the first to win four Logie Awards in one shot, including the "Gold Logie" as the "Most Popular Television Performer", the result is determined by opinion polls.

At a charity event in Melbourne with other players from Neighbours, Minogue sang the song "The Loco-Motion" of Little Eva and then signed a contract with Mushroom Records in 1987. Released as a single and entitled "Locomotion", the song topped the ladder in Australia for seven weeks and became the best-selling single that year. Success is then brought Minogue traveling to London to work with Stock, Aitken & Waterman. At first they did not really pay attention to it and even forget the day he got there. Minogue while waiting, they quickly wrote a song for him, "I Should Be So Lucky." His first album entitled Kylie, a collection of dance tunes, reached number one in Britain and became the best-selling album that year. The album also sold more than 7 million copies worldwide, mostly in Europe and Asia, and produced six hit singles. America is the only major market that has not penetrated this album, though this version of "The Loco-Motion" re-recorded in the UK reaching number 3 on Billboard Magazine Singles Chart. In late 1988 Minogue left Neighbours to concentrate on his music career.


Duet with Jason Donovan, titled "Especially for You" became a huge hit in England. Selanjutnyapun album, Enjoy Yourself (1989) enjoyed success in the UK and Australia, and produced several hit singles, but failed in America, and Minogue was removed from her record company in America, Geffen Records. He began touring the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Australia. Minogue had become Stock, Aitken and Waterman-selling star, and therefore to respond to criticism that his second album is just a clone of her first album, they changed his style to the next album.


Rhythm of Love (1990) show a more mature style of the music Kylie Minogue and rebellion marked the first point of the SAW production team and the image of "good girl" that he had been. Determined to be accepted by a society that is more mature, Minogue took control of the music videos, starting from the "Better the Devil You Know", which featured him as a grown woman. Relationship with INXS singer Michael Hutchence also make it accepted as a mature singer. Hutchence wrote the song "Suicide Blonde" for her.
Singles from Rhythm of Love sold well in Europe and Australia and were popular in British nightclubs where Minogue started to reach a more mature audience that becomes the target. When "Shocked" reached the British Top 10 in 1991, he became the first musician to put his first 13 singles in the Top 10.


In 1991, Minogue took part in a concert in honor of John Lennon, who was named Lennon - A Tribute. His performance singing the song "Help" from the Beatles were well received by audiences and performers could compete with the other performers that night, like U2 and Roy Orbison.


Minogue actual contract runs out after three albums, but he was drawn to record an album again. Let's Get to It (1991) designed to broaden its appeal with a mixture of different types of music from soft ballads to dance songs. Although it won praise from critics, the album was not able to penetrate the British Top 10. Nevertheless, toured the UK in late 1991 sold out. However Australia's fading popularity.


Upon completion of contractual obligations Minogue out and not renew it. He often stated that he felt constrained by the Stock Aitken Waterman, and also compare this experience with the time he played in Neighbours. He said he only had to "memorize the text, sung text, there is no time for questions, promote the album." Realize that the fans do not like the SAW formula, and that it can only grow as an artist when he broke away from them, Minogue decided himself to leave. He agreed to record three new songs for the album Greatest Hits compilation, released simultaneously with his departure in 1992. This album reached number one in England, but his new singles were less successful.


Deconstruction Records (1993-1998)

The new contract with Deconstruction Records was praised by many music magazines as the beginning of a new era in Minogue's career, but the next album swanama Kylie Minogue (1994) obtained a variety of criticisms. Collaboration with other artists like Pet Shop Boys and M People disappointed both critics and buyers. The album was successful and single middle "Confide in Me" entrenched five weeks atop the charts in Australia. When the single "Put Yourself in My Place" and "Where is the Feeling" did not make the top ten in the UK and Australia, some commentators predicted the end of the career attractiveness of his voice. Minogue is also not satisfied with the end of the tape.



Australian singer Nick Cave became interested in working with Minogue when she heard the song "Better the Devil You Know". According to the song contains "one of the hardest songs in pop music and sad" and "when Kylie Minogue sings these words, there are aspects of innocence about him that makes it more interesting lyrics." "Where the Wild Roses Grow" (1995) is a ballad whose lyrics describe a murder either from the viewpoint of the killer (Cave) and victim (Minogue), and the success of this song shows that Minogue could be accepted outside dance music circles. In Europe, this song reached the top ten in several countries, and ranked second in Australia. This song also won ARIA Awards for "Song of the Year" and "Best Pop Release". He sang it with Cave at a summer rock festival in Australia, "The Big Day Out" in front of an audience that most fans of alternative music, and well received. He also appeared in several concerts with Cave Cave in Europe, as well as T in the Park festival in Scotland. He recites the lyrics to "I Should Be So Lucky" as poetry in the show "Poetry Jam" at the Royal Albert Hall London at the suggestion of Cave, and then said that he gave her the confidence to express themselves artistically, "He taught me not to wander too far from myself, but to go further, try other things and not lose sight of myself. To me, the hardest part is letting go of who I am and be honest in music.


In 1997, Minogue was in a relationship with French photographer Stephane Sednaoui, who described it as a combination of "geisha and manga comics super hero". He began taking photographs of Minogue by not highlighting glamorous side to reach a more mature audience, and Minogue took inspiration from artists like Shirley Manson of Garbage, Björk, Tricky and U2, and Japanese pop musicians such as Pizzicato Five and Towa Tei. Towa Tei with it and then working for the singles "GBI: German Bold Italic" and "Sometime Samurai".


Impossible Princess (1997) among other features collaborations with the Manic Street Preachers, and Minogue writing most of the lyrics of his songs. His first single "Some Kind of Bliss" does not represent the other songs are nuanced dance, and Minogue denies allegations that he wanted to become an independent artist. He told Music Week, "I have constantly said that this is not indie-guitar album. I would not have had his guitar and playing rock music." Billboard Magazine described the album as "stunning" and concluded that "this is a commercial opportunity for a major record company with vision and energy to release it in America." If you are keen to hear there are similarities between Impossible Princess and Madonna's hugely successful album Ray of Light (1988).
The album became his albums sold in the UK at least, but most in demand in Australia since her first album, with sales supported by a very successful tour. When meresensi concert, The Times wrote about his ability to "cover his voice is thin and sometimes obscure the diversity of music and vulnerable charisma and pop songs are really good is measured by any standard," and a live album recorded during this tour, titled Intimate and Live. The album was also sold in Australia. He defends his success in Australia with live performances, including the festival Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras 1998, the opening of Fox Studios in Sydney in 1999, when she sang "Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend" of Marilyn Monroe, and concert Christmas in Dili , East Timor for the UN Peacekeeping Force.


Parlophone Records (1999-present)


William Baker, director of the clip Spinning Around (2000) inspired by Alberto Vargas drawings titled "Varga Girl" from the 1940's (compare)
Minogue and Deconstruction Records parted ways and he signed a new deal with Parlophone in April 1999. Her album Light Years (2000) greatly influenced disco musicians from the 70's such as Donna Summer and Village People, and contains several songs written by Robbie Williams and Guy Chambers who sprinkle their lyrics with humor. New Musical Express wrote: "The ability to be born again Kylie is incredible" and concluded that this album is "very exciting" and "doing very well." The album received the most praise in his career and be successful throughout Europe, Asia and Australia, selling over 2 million copies worldwide. The single "Spinning Around" became the first number one in Britain in 10 years, and often played music videos on television. Subsequent single releases, including "Kids" by Robbie Williams, also sold well. He became the second artist after Madonna who had number one singles in Britain in the decade of the 1980s, the 1990s and the 2000s.
He appeared in the 2000 Sydney Olympics, where she sang a cover version of the ABBA hit "Dancing Queen" and her latest single was "On a Night Like This". He then toured England and Australia, called On a Night Like This. Tickets sold well and broke the record in Australia as a female artist with the most ticket sales (200,000). The sixth show in Melbourne was increased to 22 due to public demand. Inspired the Broadway musical theater, this tour presents an elaborate stage settings such as cruise ships, views of the city of New York in the Art Deco style, space shuttle, and Minogue was praised for his new material and interpretations will be old songs, change the "I Should Be So Lucky "a slow song and" Better the Devil You Know "became a big band-style songs in the 1940s. He won the Mo Award for "Live Entertainment" and "Performer of the Year" in Australia. After this tour he was asked by a reporter from the Seattle Post-Intelligence what is its main strength, and he replied, "That I am versatile. If I had to pick one thing to do, I do not know if I can succeed, but combine it all together , and I will succeed.




In 2001 he released the album Fever, which maintains the disco elements and combined them with 1980s electropop. His first single "Can not Get You Out of My Head", which became the biggest success of his career, reaching number one in over 40 countries and sold over 4 million copies worldwide. The success of this album is quite widespread, and once played by the various American radio, Capitol Records released it in America in 2002. The album received positive comments, Popmatters magazine called the album "a perfect album filled with beautiful dance song." This album entered the Billboard charts at position 3, and the single reached number 7. "In Your Eyes", "Love at First Sight" and "Come Into My World" is a significant hit throughout the world, and Minogue stuck in the American market presence, get successful tertama in nightclubs. 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".


The former stylist and creative director William Baker explained that Minogue video-clip video for Fever album were inspired by science fiction films, especially from Stanley Kubrik, and colored by elements of electropop with the dancers in the style of Kraftwerk. Alan MacDonald, designer Fever 2002 tour, bringing these elements into the stage which was based on seven female figures, drawn from images of Minogue in the past. The tour was a commercial success and critical weight, and in 2002, Q magazine named Minogue is one of the "50 Bands To See Before You Die."



The next album, Body Language (2000), was released with a concert for the invitees only, titled Money Can not Buy at the Hammersmith Apollo in London. The event was enlivened by offering a new visual style, designed by Minogue and Baker, inspired in part by the figures of the 1960s Brigitte Bardot. Minogue asked about it replied, "I think the BB is a sex symbol, is not it? He was very radical for its time. And referring to that era, which is like ... harmonious blend of coquette and rock n 'roll."
The event was commented upon in various ways, and the main criticism that nothing new was introduced, and that the new songs do not fit with his old hits. However, the concert became a successful television show to win a high rating.


Showgirl Tour.


This album does not highlight the disco style and Minogue said she was inspired by 1980s artists such as Scritti Politti's, Human League and Prince, blending their styles with elements of hip-hop. Reaching the criticisms are very positive with Billboard magazine wrote "Minogue has a good sense in choosing songs and producers." Sales in the UK and Australia are relatively low, although the first single "Slow" is quite popular, and in America this album is also not considered, even though the single became a hit in night clubs. In November 2004, "Slow" was nominated for a Grammy Award in the category "Best Dance Recording."
Until in 2005, Minogue has sold over 40 million pieces of single and 25 million albums worldwide, and has had at least one number one hit in more than 45 countries. He released a second greatest hits album on November 23, 2004, entitled Ultimate Kylie. Also released a compilation music videos on DVD with the same title. The album introduced her single "I Believe in You", written with Jake Shears and Babydaddy from the Scissor Sisters. This song is a song of his top 10-to-28 in the UK, making it the second most successful artist in the UK charts after Madonna. "Giving You Up" also reached the top 10 in March 2005.


Tour titled "Showgirl, The Greatest Hits" was announced in early 2005. On April 2005, Minogue and her creative director William Baker to end professional relations, with Minogue commenting that this had been planned with the release of Ultimate Kylie and tour, and that the two remain friends. Planned as the biggest tour of his career, and intended to be marketed to more than 700,000 viewers worldwide, was a successful tour in Europe. At bulah May 2005, the tour ended abruptly when Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer.


Film career 

In 1989, Minogue starred in The Delinquents, which told of a young girl in Australia in the late 1950's. This coincided with the release of the film Neighbours fame, and although many people criticized the film was a commercial success. She appeared as Cammy in the action film Street Fighter (1994), based on video games with the same title. This film does not advance the career role, ignored by the game fans, and critics scorned, by journalist Richard Harrington The Washington Post called it "the worst actress in the English-speaking countries." Subsequent films such as Bio-Dome (1996), Sample People and Cut (film 2000) (both 2000) failed to attract an audience.
Australian film director Baz Luhrmann, was impressed by Intimate and Live tour of her, put Minogue in the film Moulin Rouge! (2001) as Absinthe, the green fairy, sang a line of lyrics from The Sound of Music. This is a cameo appearance most widely known. In 2004 he provided the voice for the character of Florence in a film based on The Magic Roundabout.


Image and celebrity status

Throughout his professional career, Minogue has become the center of media attention both in the UK and Australia. This attention to survive despite the constant up and down career record. His attempt to consider seriously as a musician is sometimes hampered by a high profile, as said by the newspaper The Australian, who wrote in 1997, "A person who has an image of Kylie difficult to produce music that fits with it-especially in countries that lack respect pop music. " Affair, including currently with French actor Olivier Martinez, has also been widely exposed.


Minogue is regarded as a gay icon, and this is supported by comments like "I'm not a regular icons homosexuals. In my life there is no tragedy, no tragic incident." He said that gay people respond to grief when the media began to criticize sharply in 1989, and that these fans-fans remain faithful to her, "my gay fans, fans have followed me from the very beginning, they have adopted me."



Minogue has used the medium of video clips for how to effectively promote its image, and has worked hard to create and develop visual representations. The videos originally described as a "good girl"; but when he took over the reins in 1990, he developed a more mature image and provocative. This causes it to always be compared to Madonna. Madonna acknowledged Minogue wearing a t-shirt with "Kylie Minogue" for his performance in the MTV Video Music Awards 2000.


In some music videos, Minogue has touched adult themes; race relations in the "Better the Devil You Know", lesbian and transsexual in "What Do I Have to Do", telephone sex in "Confide in Me" and prostitution in "On a Night Like This". He parodied his image in the video for "Did It Again", where the fourth embodiment, "Indie Kylie", "Dance Kylie", "Sex Kylie" and "Cute Kylie" berbaku hit.



In 1993, Baz Luhrmann introduced Minogue to the photographer Bert Stern, known through his work with Marilyn Monroe. Stern took photos of Minogue in Los Angeles and, comparing it to Monroe, commented that he has "awareness of the fragility and the same camera." Minogue has gained trust through its relationship with the people in the world of fashion as a fashion designer Jean-Paul Gaultier, photographer Stephane Sednaoui, and designer John Galliano, who described it as "a mixture of Lolita and Barbarella."


During her career she has chosen photographers who attempt to create a new look for her, and photographs of the results has appeared in numerous magazines, from The Face to Vogue and Vanity Fair, introducing Minogue face and name to people worldwide who may never buy a tape-recorded. William Baker said that this is one reason why she entered the world of pop in Europe with more success than other pop singers who concentrate on album sales. He has appeared in numerous guest roles on television series such as The Vicar of Dibley and Men Behaving Badly in the UK, and Kath & Kim in Australia, and has used her celebrity status and image for comedic effect. In the latter series she played a Melbourne teenager on her wedding day, referring to his character Charlene in Neighbours.



Although he was a commercial success, and widely accepted by the public as a sex symbol, many critics say he uses his body to cover the shortage of talent. Miki Berenyi of the group Lush said "I have a problem with him because he represents all the widely accepted role ... a pity that he had received so much credibility when there are many women who are a hundred times more talented. This is a war - we should not defend Kylie , he must be opposed at every opportunity. " Minogue continues to attract attention to the discussion, both positive and negative, and in Paul Morley's book about the evolution of pop music, Words and Music: A History of Pop in the Shape of a City, Minogue is discussed in depth.



Minogue has often spoken about the stability of the team that he created. Her parents, Ron and Carol Minogue, are actively involved in his career; his father, an accountant, financial penasehan and her mother is always participate in each tour. He has been managed by Terry Blamey since 1987 and the close network of the Stock Aitken Waterman since, has led to comments that he "manufactured" (manufactured - made / produced), the observations which he admits is quite right, "If we are part of a record companies, I think it is fair to some extent to say that we are a manufactured product. We are the product and we sell a product. It does not mean that it is not talented and that we are not creative and business decisions about what we want and we do not want and where we want to go ... It is my name and I have to sell the product. But that does not mean our work without the help of a team. So I tried to work with the best people I can meet and take from them what I can take. Hopefully, I have promoted myself.


William Baker describes his status as a sex symbol as a "double-edged sword", observing that "we always try to use to spice up the sex appeal to sell his music and recordings. But now it has become dangerous because it began to cover her true: a pop singer. " Minogue has said that although his career will always change the direction he hopes to keep singing and stay away from sex symbol image he created. In 2003 she received positive criticism for appearances at clubs without fanfare Paris where she sang jazz standards, and indicating that he might take in this direction in the future. He did not want mengotakkan itself into one type of singer, but rather to observe him with the comment, "I am now more aware of myself as a performer ... on stage is where I have given and received so much energy and enthusiasm."


Cancer

On May 17, 2005 reported that Minogue had been diagnosed with early stage breast cancer, and will receive medical treatment in Melbourne. The rest of her Showgirl tour was postponed and she withdrew from participation in the Glastonbury Festival.
This announcement led to a brief period in which his name is often mentioned in the mass media, especially in Australia where this story becomes the main topic of the day. When the media and fans tried to gather outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, Victoria Steve Bracks Prime Minister stated in the international media that any disruption to the Minogue family as citizens of Australia will not be tolerated. Minogue underwent surgery on May 21. My friends like Olivia Newton-John, who also survived breast cancer, prompting the media and fans to respect Minogue's privacy. However, just after the announcement that the operation has succeeded attention begins to fade. In the days after the operation, it was reported that Minogue had been started as part of a radiology therapy treatment.
Minogue to say 'thank you' to the public generally, and encourages fans to 'do not worry.' He then added that the treatment will be continued in Europe. On July 8, 2005 she appeared on the general public for the first time since the operation when he visited the childhood cancer at the Royal Children's Hospital Melbourne.