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Kylie Ann Minogue AO OBE (/mɪˈnɡ/; born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress. Referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop",[1] she has been widely recognised for her reinvention in music and fashion. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards and seventeen ARIA Music Awards.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988). She began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four studio albums under PWL. By the early 1990s, she had amassed several top five singles in Australia and the UK, including "The Loco-Motion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Especially for You", "Hand on Your Heart" and "Better the Devil You Know". After taking more creative control over her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997), the former holding the number-one hit "Confide in Me".

Minogue returned to mainstream dance-pop after joining Parlophone with Light Years (2000), including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". Her next album, Fever (2001), was an international breakthrough and became her best-selling album to date. The lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" topped the charts of over 40 countries and sold over five million units. It became one of the most commercially successful singles of the 2000s. Follow up singles include "In Your Eyes" and "Love at First Sight" which both peaked in the top-five. She continued reinventing her image and experimenting with a range of genres on her subsequent albums, which spawned successful singles such as "Slow", "I Believe in You", "2 Hearts" and "All the Lovers". She later partnered up with BMG Rights Management, with "Dancing" as their first release. After releasing Disco (2020), she became the only female artist to have a number-one album from the 1980s to the 2020s in the UK charts. Her sixteenth studio album Tension (2023) received widespread acclaim from critics, with the lead single "Padam Padam" noted as her recording comeback.[2]

Minogue is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide. In film, Minogue made her debut in The Delinquents (1989), and appeared in Street Fighter (1994), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015). In reality television, she appeared as a judge on The Voice UK and The Voice Australia both in 2014. Her other ventures include product endorsements, books, perfumes, charitable work and a wine brand. Minogue's achievements include being an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.).

  1. ^ Sources for Minogue being called the "Princess of Pop":
    • Granville, Samantha (2023-07-28). "Kylie Minogue announces Las Vegas residency". BBC News. Retrieved 2023-10-18. Dubbed the Princess of Pop, Minogue has sold over 80 million records worldwide, won a Grammy and three Brit Awards.
    • "Padam! Kylie Minogue is Rolling Stone UK's next cover star". Rolling Stone UK. September 7, 2023. The Princess of Pop will release her latest album Tension on September 22 and our latest issue sees the singer going deep on the record's genesis.
    • Curto, Justin (2020-09-24). "Kylie Minogue Waves a Wand, Drops New Song, 'Magic'". Vulture. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
    • "Kylie Minogue turns 50: Remembering the star's rise to princess of pop". The Irish News. May 28, 2018. Retrieved 2023-10-18.
    • Reilly, Nick (2018-11-12). "Kylie Minogue announces outdoor UK tour for summer 2019 – and it's in time for Glastonbury". NME. Retrieved 2023-10-18. The Princess of Pop will plays venues including Blenheim Palace, the Eden Project and Hampton Court Palace between June and August.
  2. ^ Khomami, Nadia (2023-05-31). "Kylie Minogue 'bursting with joy' as new single Padam Padam soars up charts". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2023-10-18. It's been hailed as Kylie Minogue's "comeback" single and has generated countless memes and dance videos on social media.