Kylie Minogue
Occupation : Actress, model, singer
Birth Date : 28 May 1968
Birth Place : Bethlehem Hospital, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birth Name : Kylie Ann Minogue
Nationality : Australian
Sex : F
Height : 5' 1"
Relationship : Oliver Martinez (actor; born on January 12, 1966), Jason Donovan (singer), Michael Hutchence, Lenny Kravits (singer), Tim Jeffries, Zane O'Donnell (model), Stephane Sednaoui (French photographer), Rupert Penry-Jones (RSC actor), James Gooding
Father : Ron
Mother : Carol Minogue
Sister : Dannii Minougue (actress, model; born on October 20, 1971)
Brother : Brendan Minougue (TV camera man;born on August 30, 1983)
Claim to fame : Album Kylie (1988)
Minogue was born on May 28, 1968, in Melbourne. In 1979, she began her acting career in the Australian TV drama series Skyways, eventually gaining a starring role in a children's series, The Henderson Kids, before achieving national fame in the five-days-a-week soap opera Neighbours. Around the time Minogue joined, Neighbours also started airing in the U.K.
Her singing career began purely by accident when a record company executive heard Kylie's rendition of Little Eva's 1962 hit "The Loco-Motion". She signed with PWL Records and hit-makers Stock/Aitken/Waterman in 1987. Five albums and a greatest hits compilation followed, and she made history by having more than 20 consecutive top ten hits in the UK. Her motion picture debut came with the starring role of Lola in The Delinquents (1989).
She left PWL Records in 1992 to head in a decidedly more mature musical direction, and her self-titled debut on deconstruction records was released in 1994, spawning chart hits like "Confide In Me" and "Put Yourself In My Place". Kylie's doings were always a favorite subject of the press, but she really made waves with her controversial 1995 duet with Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, "Where the Wild Roses Grow". 1997 saw the release of Kylie's first single in more than 3 years, "Some Kind of Bliss" co-written and produced by James Dean Bradfield and Sean Moore of The Manic Street Preachers
Kylie is continuing the pace with 2004's Body Language and the launch of her lingerie line called Love Kylie.
In May 2005, the last few weeks of her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits tour were canceled when news broke that she was diagnosed with the early stages of breast cancer.
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