1. Kylie Ann Minogue is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress.
111 Facts About Kylie Minogue
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Kylie Minogue's accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards.
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Kylie Minogue began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four dance-pop studio albums under PWL.
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The follow-up, Fever, was an international breakthrough for Kylie Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date.
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Kylie Minogue is the only female artist in the UK charts with chart-topping albums and a top ten single in five consecutive decades.
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Kylie Ann Minogue was born at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria, on 28 May 1968, to car company accountant Ronald Charles Minogue and his wife Carol Ann, a former ballet dancer.
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Kylie Minogue's mother moved to Australia from Wales in 1958 as part of an assisted migration scheme on the ship Fairsea.
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Kylie Minogue is of English and Welsh descent and was named after the Nyungar word for "boomerang".
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Kylie Minogue is the eldest of three children: her brother, Brendan Minogue, is a news cameraman in Australia, and her sister, Dannii Minogue, is an actress, singer and television host.
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The family frequently moved around various suburbs in Melbourne to sustain their living expenses, which Kylie Minogue found unsettling as a child.
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Kylie Minogue often stayed at home reading, sewing, and learning to play violin and piano.
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Kylie Minogue got her HSC with subjects including Arts and Graphics and English.
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Kylie Minogue described herself as being of "average intelligence" and "quite modest" during her high school years.
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Kylie Minogue appeared in another small role in soap opera Skyways.
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Kylie Minogue took time off school to film The Henderson Kids and while Carol was not impressed, Kylie Minogue felt she needed the independence to make it into the entertainment industry.
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Kylie Minogue was dropped from the second season of the show after Hardy felt the need for her character to be "written off".
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Interested in following a career in music, Kylie Minogue made a demo tape for the producers of weekly music program Young Talent Time, which featured Dannii as a regular performer.
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Kylie Minogue gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985, and was not invited to join the cast.
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Kylie Minogue was cast in the soap opera Neighbours in 1986, as Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic.
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Kylie Minogue became the first person to win four Logie Awards in one year and was the youngest recipient of the "Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television", with the result determined by public vote.
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The success of the single resulted in Kylie Minogue travelling to London to work with record producing trio Stock Aitken Waterman in September 1987.
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Producer Pete Waterman justified the highly controversial decision to re-record the latter track by claiming Kylie Minogue's platinum-selling Australian version was poorly produced, but Mike Duffy instead blamed the decision on Waterman's alleged wish to claim the prestige and royalties from the track's placement on the soundtrack of the 1988 film Arthur 2: On the Rocks.
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Kylie Minogue collaborated with Jason Donovan on the song "Especially for You" after "intense" demand for the duet from the public, media and retailers overcame her initial reservations.
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Kylie Minogue was sometimes referred to as "the Singing Budgie" by her detractors over the coming years.
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Kylie Minogue received the ARIA Award for the year's highest-selling single.
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Kylie Minogue won her second consecutive ARIA Award for the year's highest-selling single and received a "Special Achievement Award".
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From 1989 to 1991, Kylie Minogue dated Australian INXS frontman Michael Hutchence.
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Unhappy with her level of creative input on her first two albums, Kylie Minogue worked with her manager Terry Blamey and her Australian label Mushroom Records to force a change in her relationship with SAW, and to push for a more mature sound.
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The making of the music video for "Better the Devil You Know" was the first time Kylie Minogue "felt part of the creative process".
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Kylie Minogue's signing with British record label Deconstruction Records in 1993 marked a new phase in her career.
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Kylie Minogue's fifth studio album, Kylie Minogue, was released in September 1994 and was a departure from her previous efforts as it "no longer featured the Stock-Aitken-Waterman production gloss", with critics noting Minogue's vocals and the album production.
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Kylie Minogue had an affair with Van Damme while shooting the film in Thailand.
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Kylie Minogue had a minor role in the 1996 film Bio-Dome starring American actors Pauly Shore and Stephen Baldwin.
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Cave had been interested in working with Kylie Minogue since hearing "Better the Devil You Know", saying it contained "one of pop music's most violent and distressing lyrics".
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Kylie Minogue drew inspiration from the music of artists such as Scottish singer Shirley Manson and American rock band Garbage, Icelandic singer Bjork, British rapper Tricky and Irish rock band U2, and Japanese pop musicians such as Pizzicato Five and Towa Tei.
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Kylie Minogue gave several live performances in Australia, including the 1998 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, and the opening ceremonies of Melbourne's Crown Casino, and Sydney's Fox Studios in 1999 as well as a Christmas concert in Dili, East Timor, in association with the United Nations Peace-Keeping Forces.
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Kylie Minogue performed a duet with the English synth-pop duo Pet Shop Boys' on their Nightlife album and spent several months in Barbados performing in William Shakespeare's The Tempest.
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Kylie Minogue then appeared in the film Sample People and recorded a cover version of Russell Morris's "The Real Thing" for the soundtrack.
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NME magazine called it a "fun, perfectly-formed" record, which saw Kylie Minogue "dropping her considerable concern for cool and bouncing back to her disco-pop roots".
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An elaborate art book titled Kylie, featuring contributions by Minogue and creative director William Baker, was published by Booth-Clibborn in March 2000.
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In September 2001, Kylie Minogue released "Can't Get You Out of My Head", the lead single from her eighth studio album, Fever.
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Kylie Minogue received four accolades at the ARIA Music Awards of 2002, including Highest Selling Single and Single of the Year for "Can't Get You Out of My Head".
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In 2003, for the 45th Annual Grammy Awards, Kylie Minogue received her first Grammy nomination for Best Dance Recording for "Love at First Sight", before winning the award for "Come into My World" the following year.
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Kylie Minogue began a relationship with French actor Olivier Martinez after meeting him at the 2003 Grammy Awards ceremony.
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In November 2003, Kylie Minogue released her ninth studio album, Body Language, following an invitation-only concert titled Money Can't Buy, at the Hammersmith Apollo in London.
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In November 2004, Minogue released her second greatest hits compilation album, Ultimate Kylie.
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Kylie Minogue reprised the role in 2006 and recorded the theme song for the American edition, re-titled as Doogal.
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In January 2006, it was announced Kylie Minogue had finished chemotherapy and the disease "had no recurrence" after the surgery.
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Kylie Minogue would continue her treatment for the next months.
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Kylie Minogue appeared on her own television special The Kylie Show, which featured music performances and comedy sketches.
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Kylie Minogue was then appointed a Chevalier of the French, the junior grade of France's highest cultural honour.
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Kylie Minogue won the "Best International Female Solo Artist" award at the Brit Awards 2008.
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Kylie Minogue was in a relationship with Spanish model Andres Velencoso, starting from 2008 up until 2013.
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In January 2009, Kylie Minogue hosted the Brit Awards with English multi-hyphenates James Corden and Mathew Horne.
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In July 2010, Kylie Minogue released her eleventh studio album, Aphrodite.
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In February 2011, Kylie Minogue embarked on the Aphrodite: Les Folies Tour, performing in Europe, North America, Asia, Australia and Africa.
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In 2012, Kylie Minogue began a year-long celebration of her 25 years in the music industry, which was often called "K25".
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Kylie Minogue performed at events such as Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras, Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee Concert and BBC Proms in the Park London 2012.
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In January 2013, Kylie Minogue parted ways with manager Terry Blamey, who managed her since the start of her singing career.
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Ed Power from The Daily Telegraph commented on Kylie Minogue for being "glamorous, agreeably giggly [and] a card-carrying national treasure".
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In March 2014, Kylie Minogue released her twelfth studio album, Kiss Me Once.
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In March 2015, Kylie Minogue left Parlophone Records and Roc Nation.
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Kylie Minogue entered into a trademark dispute with reality television personality Kylie Jenner, in Jenner's attempt to trademark the brand "Kylie", which Minogue has been trading under since the 1990s.
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Kylie Minogue is better placed than most to do such an album, given her longevity in the business.
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In February 2017, Kylie Minogue signed a record deal with BMG Rights Management.
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In June 2019, Kylie Minogue released the greatest hits compilation album Step Back in Time: The Definitive Collection, featuring "New York City" as the lead single.
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Kylie Minogue's set was the most watched of the BBC coverage, earning three million viewers and setting a history record for the most attended Glastonbury set.
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Kylie Minogue's prosecco rose had become the number one branded prosecco in the UK, according to Nielsen Holdings data.
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Kylie Minogue became the only female artist to achieve a number one album in five consecutive decades, from the 1980s to the 2020s.
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In May 2023, Kylie Minogue released the lead single "Padam Padam" from her sixteenth album Tension.
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In February 2024, Kylie Minogue signed with United Talent Agency for live representation in Canada and the US, as well for acting roles worldwide.
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Kylie Minogue released her seventeenth studio album, Tension II on 18 October 2024, with "Lights Camera Action" as the lead single.
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In 2025, Kylie Minogue embarked on the Tension Tour on 15 February on Perth, Australia.
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Kylie Minogue said she "wanted to be" Newton-John while growing up.
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Kylie Minogue has been known for her soft soprano vocal range.
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In musical terms, Kylie Minogue has worked with many genres in pop and dance music.
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Chris True from AllMusic, reviewed her debut album, Kylie Minogue and found her music "standard late-'80s Stock-Aitken-Waterman bubblegum", however he stated she presented the most personality of any 1980s recording artist.
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Kylie Minogue was constantly writing down words, exploring the form and meaning of sentences.
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Kylie Minogue had written lyrics before, but called them "safe, just neatly rhymed words, and that's that".
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Kylie Minogue said she took inspiration from "both the Britpop and electronica movements of the mid-'90s", saying "Impossible Princess is the work of an artist willing to take risks".
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Kylie Minogue's seventh studio album, Light Years is a disco-influenced dance-pop record, with AllMusic's Chris True calling it "arguably one of the best disco records since the '70s".
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Kylie Minogue's ninth studio album, Body Language, was quite different from her musical experiments in the past as it was a "successful" attempt at broadening her sound with electro and hip-hop for instance.
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Stern photographed her in Los Angeles and, comparing her to Monroe, commented Kylie Minogue had a similar mix of vulnerability and eroticism.
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Kylie Minogue was named one of the 100 Hottest Women of All-Time by Men's Health in 2013.
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Kylie Minogue has been inspired by and compared to American artist Madonna throughout her career.
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Kylie Minogue received negative comments her Rhythm of Love Tour in 1991 was too similar visually to Madonna's Blond Ambition World Tour, for which critics labelled her a Madonna wannabe.
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Self-knowledge is a truly beautiful thing and Kylie Minogue knows herself inside out.
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Kylie Minogue is what she is and there is no attempt to make quasi-intellectual statements to substantiate it.
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Simply, Madonna is the dark force; Kylie Minogue is the light force.
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In 2007, a bronze statue of Kylie Minogue was unveiled at Melbourne Docklands for permanent display.
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Kylie Minogue has explained she first became aware of her gay audience in 1988, when several drag queens performed to her music at a Sydney pub, and she later saw a similar show in Melbourne.
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Kylie Minogue said she felt "very touched" to have such an "appreciative crowd", and this encouraged her to perform at gay venues throughout the world, as well as headlining the 1994 Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras.
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Kylie Minogue has one of the largest gay followings in the world.
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Kylie Minogue has been recognised with many honorific nicknames, most notably the "Princess of Pop".
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In March 2024, to commemorate the 65th anniversary of International Women's Day, Kylie Minogue was one of a number of female celebrities had their likeness turned into Barbie dolls.
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Kylie Minogue has received many accolades, including two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, eighteen ARIA Music Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards, three MTV Europe Music Awards and six Mo Awards, including the Australian Performer of the Year in 2001 and 2003.
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In November 2011, Kylie Minogue was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
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In January 2011, Kylie Minogue received a Guinness World Records citation for having the most consecutive decades with top five albums in the UK, with all her albums doing so.
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In June 2012, Official Charts Company mentioned Kylie Minogue is the 12th best selling singer in the United Kingdom to date, and the third best selling female artist, selling over 10.1 million singles.
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Kylie Minogue is the most successful Australian female recording artist of all time.
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Actor Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue started going out while both were actors on the Australian soap opera, Neighbours.
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Kylie Minogue later had a relationship with French actor Olivier Martinez, which ended in 2007.
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Kylie Minogue was engaged to British actor Joshua Sasse up until 2017, followed by a five year relationship with GQ Executive Paul Solomons from 2018 to 2023.
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Kylie Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36 in May 2005, leading to the postponement of the remainder of her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour and her withdrawal from the Glastonbury Festival.
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Kylie Minogue underwent a lumpectomy, on 21 May 2005 at Cabrini Hospital in Malvern and commenced chemotherapy treatment soon after.
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Kylie Minogue returned to France where she completed her chemotherapy treatment at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Villejuif, near Paris.
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Kylie Minogue commented, "because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn't necessarily mean they're right", but later spoke of her respect for the medical profession.
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Kylie Minogue was acknowledged for the impact she made by publicly discussing her breast cancer diagnosis and treatment.
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In 2008, Kylie Minogue pledged her support for a campaign to raise funds for abused children, to be donated to the British charities ChildLine and the National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
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Kylie Minogue is a supporter of amfAR, The Foundation for AIDS Research, hosting the amfAR Inspiration Gala in Los Angeles in 2010.
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Kylie Minogue has attended amfAR fundraising benefits in Cannes, and performed at galas for the charity in Sao Paulo and Hong Kong.