Kylie Minogue’s musical inclinations started at the age of eight, when she and her friends would regularly create Abba air bands, complete with makeshift microphones from brooms. Before she and her sister, Dannii Minogue (a future judge on The X Factor), could enter the professional music arena, they turned to television. A pair of soap operas, The Sullivans and Skyways, were teenage Kylie Minogue’s first ventures into television, but it was her casting in 1986 as Charlene, a trusty car mechanic, on the series Neighbours that brought in a solid audience.
The romance between Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan’s characters on Neighbours developed Kylie Minogue’s local fan base in Australia and expanded it into the UK. As a perk to her added popularity, Kylie Minogue was given the opportunity to sing at a football fundraising event. One of the two songs performed was a cover of “The Loco-Motion,” which received such a positive response that it helped her earn a recording contract with Mushroom Records only a short time later. The song hit the Australian markets in 1987 as a single and quickly became the country’s best-selling ’80s single. Kylie Minogue later won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 1988 before leaving the show to pursue a music career instead.
Kylie Minogue signs with stock, aitken & waterman and releases fever
Prestigious record producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman invited Kylie Minogue to London to work with them on a potential recording contract. After a troublesome first meeting, in which the producers forgot about the appointment and hastily prepared a song for Kylie instead, any ill will was replaced by giddy excitement and the subsequent release of the album, Kylie. The album allowed Kylie Minogue to break into the United States market for the first time; “The Loco-Motion” peaked as one of the top 5 tracks on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100. As an impressive side note, Kylie’s first 13 singles — including “I Should Be So Lucky” — all entered the top 10 in Britain.
Over the course of several albums, Kylie Minogue’s musical style and attitude toward her record company began to change. Spurred on by her relationship with Michael Hutchence and creative collaboration with Nick Cave, she took more control of her musical output and signed on with Deconstruction Records. The release of Impossible Princess in 1998, which included the acclaimed Kylie Minogue/Nick Cave single “Where the Wild Roses Grow,” captured the Song of the Year and Best Pop Release honors at the ARI Awards and became the singer’s highest-grossing album in Australia since her debut.
The next career turning point for Kylie Minogue started with her performing a set at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Following a burlesque-themed tour in the United States and in her homeland, she released the album, Fever, in 2002. The album was top-lined by the single, “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,” which topped the charts in more than 40 countries and became a fixture on the nightclub scene. Both the album and song gave Kylie her most successful showing to American audiences.
Kylie Minogue releases x and aphrodite
The release of Kylie Minogue’s next album, Body Language, and its subsequent tour were overshadowed by the news that the singer had been diagnosed with breast cancer in 2006. Forced to postpone her remaining concert dates and undergo chemotherapy, the experience left her exhausted but grateful for overcoming it when her treatment was finished. Through her fame, she influenced other women worldwide to be checked more regularly for the disease. Though her next album, 2007′s X, was met by disappointing numbers, Kylie Minogue took solace in the fact that she received an Order of the British Empire in 2008 for music.
The eleventh studio album for Kylie Minogue emerged in 2010 under the title Aphrodite. Top-lined by the release of the single, “All My Lovers,” the album conveys a unifying sense of joy and love that Kylie Minogue wanted to share with everyone else. Now as Kylie races toward middle age, but keeps her head held high and her dancing shoes on, we will play close attention to where things go from here.
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