Singer - Kylie Minogue 1989 postcard

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• Picture / Image:  Kylie Minoge - singer - postcard from 1989
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Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (/'ka?li? m?'no?g/; born 28 May 1968), often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987.

Minogue has achieved worldwide record sales of more than 68 million,^[3] and has received notable music awards, including multiple ARIA and Brit Awards and a Grammy Award. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and received a Mo Award for ""Australian Entertainer of the Year"" for her live performances. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 ""for services to music"". In the same year she was appointed by the French Government as a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the junior grade of France's highest cultural honour, for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. In 2011 her hit single ""I Should Be So Lucky"" was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia's Sounds of Australia registry.^[4][5] The same year, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) degree by Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, Minogue was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame.^[6]

Her first single, ""The Loco-Motion"", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian singles chart and became the highest-selling single of the decade. This led to a contract with songwriters and producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. Her debut album, Kylie (1988), and the single ""I Should Be So Lucky"", both performed well on international charts, particularly in Australia and the United Kingdom. Initially presented as a ""girl next door"", Minogue attempted to convey a more mature style in her music and public image. Her singles were well received, but after four albums her sales were declining, and she left Stock, Aitken & Waterman in 1992 to establish herself as an independent performer. Her next single, ""Confide in Me"", reached number one in Australia and was a hit in several European countries in 1994, and a duet with Nick Cave, ""Where the Wild Roses Grow"", brought Minogue a greater degree of artistic credibility. Drawing inspiration from a range of musical styles and artists, Minogue took creative control over the songwriting for her next album, Impossible Princess (1997). Minogue returned to prominence in 2000 with the single ""Spinning Around"" and the dance-oriented album Light Years, and she performed during the closing ceremonies of the 2000 Sydney Olympics. Her music videos showed a more sexually provocative and flirtatious personality and several hit singles followed. ""Can't Get You Out of My Head"" reached number one in more than 40 countries, and the album Fever (2001) was a hit in many countries, including the US, a market in which Minogue had previously received little recognition. In 2005, in the middle of a concert tour, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, forcing her to cancel the tour. After treatment, she resumed her career in 2006 with the Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour. In 2009, she embarked upon her For You, For Me tour, her first concert tour of the US and Canada.

Kylie Ann Minogue was born 28 May 1968 in Melbourne, Australia, the eldest child of Ronald Charles Minogue, an accountant of Irish ancestry^[7] and a Welsh mother, Carol Ann (née Jones), a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales. Minogue lives in London, England, and has done so for the past 20 years.^[8] Minogue's sister, Dannii Minogue, is also a pop singer^[7] as well as a judge on Australia's Got Talent, while her brother, Brendan Minogue, works as a news cameraman in Australia.^[9] The Minogue children were raised in Surrey Hills, Melbourne, and educated at Camberwell High School.^[10]

The Minogue sisters began their careers as children on Australian television.^[7] From the age of 11, Kylie appeared in small roles in soap operas such as The Sullivans and Skyways, and in 1985 was cast in one of the lead roles in The Henderson Kids.^[11] Interested in following a career in music, she made a demo tape for the producers of the weekly music programme Young Talent Time,^[12] which featured Dannii as a regular performer.^[13] Kylie gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985 but was not invited to join the cast. Dannii's success overshadowed Kylie's acting achievements,^[7] until Kylie was cast in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986,^[10] as Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic. Neighbours achieved popularity in the UK, and a story arc that created a romance between her character and the character played by Jason Donovan, culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted an audience of 20 million British viewers.^[14]

Her popularity in Australia was demonstrated when she became the first person to win four Logie Awards in one event, and the youngest recipient of the ""Gold Logie"" as the country's ""Most Popular Television Performer"", with the result determined by public vote.^[15]

During a Fitzroy Football Club benefit concert with other Neighbours cast members, Minogue performed ""I Got You Babe"" as a duet with the actor John Waters, and ""The Loco-Motion"" as an encore, and was subsequently signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records in 1987.^[16] Her first single, ""The Loco-Motion"", spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian music charts and it became the highest-selling single of the 1980s.^[17] She received the ARIA Award for the year's highest-selling single.^[18] Its success resulted in Minogue travelling to England with Mushroom Records executive Gary Ashley to work with producers Stock, Aitken & Waterman. They knew little of Minogue and had forgotten that she was arriving; as a result, they wrote ""I Should Be So Lucky"" while she waited outside the studio.^[19] The song reached number one in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Israel and Hong Kong.^[20] Minogue won her second consecutive ARIA Award for the year's highest-selling single, and received a ""Special Achievement Award"".^[21]

Minogue's debut album, Kylie was released in July 1988. The album was a collection of dance-oriented pop tunes and it spent more than a year on the UK Albums Chart, including several weeks at number one.^[22] The album went gold in the United States, and the single, ""The Loco-Motion"", reached number three on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart,^[23] and number one on the Canadian Singles Chart. Follow-up singles from the album sold well, including ""Got to Be Certain"", her third consecutive number one single on the Australian music charts.^[24] Later in the year, she left Neighbours to focus on her music career. Minogue also collaborated with Jason Donovan for the song ""Especially for You"". It peaked at number-one in the United Kingdom and sold almost one million copies. Minogue was sometimes referred to as ""the Singing Budgie"" by her detractors over the coming years,^[25] however Chris True's comment about the album Kylie for Allmusic suggests that Minogue's appeal transcended the limitations of her music, by noting that ""her cuteness makes these rather vapid tracks bearable"".^[26]

Minogue's second album Enjoy Yourself was released in October 1989. The album was a success in the United Kingdom, Europe, New Zealand, Asia and Australia. The album spawned number one singles ""Hand on Your Heart"" and ""Tears on My Pillow"".^[22] However, the album failed to sell well throughout North America, and Minogue was dropped by her American record label Geffen Records. She then embarked on her first concert tour, the Enjoy Yourself Tour, in the United Kingdom, Europe, Asia and Australia in February 1990. She was also one of the featured vocalists on the remake of ""Do They Know It's Christmas?"".^[27]

Her debut film, The Delinquents was released in December 1989. The movie was poorly received by critics but it proved popular with audiences. In the UK it grossed more than £200,000,^[28] and in Australia, it was the fourth-highest grossing local film of 1989 and the highest grossing local film of 1990.^[29]

Minogue's third album, Rhythm of Love was released in November 1990. The album presented a more sophisticated and adult style of dance music and also marked the first signs of her rebellion against her production team and the ""girl-next-door"" image.^[30] Determined to be accepted by a more mature audience, Minogue took control of her music videos, starting with ""Better the Devil You Know"", and presented herself as a sexually aware adult.^[31] Her relationship with Michael Hutchence was also seen as part of her departure from her earlier persona.^[32] The singles from Rhythm of Love sold well in Europe and Australia. Shethen later embarked on the Rhythm of Love Tour in February 1991.

Minogue's fourth album, Let's Get to It was released in October 1991 and it reached number 15 on the UK Albums Chart. It was her first album to fail to reach the top ten.^[22] While the first single from the album, ""Word Is Out"" became her first single to miss the top ten of the UK Singles Chart,^[22] though subsequent singles ""If You Were with Me Now"" and ""Give Me Just a Little More Time"" reached the top five respectively.^[22] In support of the album, she embarked on the Let's Get to It Tour in October. She had fulfilled the requirements of her contract and elected not to renew it.^[7] She later expressed her opinion that she was stifled by Stock, Aitken and Waterman, and said, ""I was very much a puppet in the beginning. I was blinkered by my record company. I was unable to look left or right.""^[33]

A Greatest Hits album was released in August 1992. It reached number one in the United Kingdom^[22] and number three in Australia.^[34] The singles from the album, ""What Kind of Fool (Heard All That Before)"" and her cover version of Kool & the Gang's ""Celebration"" both reached the top twenty of the UK Singles Chart.^[22]

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