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ylie, Kylie, Kylie, Princess of Pop. Minogue has been constantly in the pubic eye ever since her TV relationship with Jason Donovan in the Australian soap Neighbours gripped the nation. Her career has outlasted many of her detractors who felt that she was simply a soap star trying her luck and passing fame in the music world. However her stamina, ability to work with new creatives in the industry and increasingly better vocal range have put her at the very top of the pop pantheon.
Her career as a pop idol started after performing ‘The Loco-Motion’ at a benefit concert, she was then signed to Mushroom Records and the recording she made of the song afterwards became the best selling single of the 80’s in Australia.
It will come as no surprise to anyone that’s heard the song “I Could Be So Lucky” that Stock, Aitken and Waterman wrote the song in 40 minutes while Kylie waited in reception. They’d forgotten she was flying in to the UK for their first meeting and needed to cobble something together. She impressed them by recording it in a similar 40 minutes and a pop legend was born. The song reached number one in the United Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Finland, Switzerland, Israel and Hong Kong. In fact her first 13 singles all went straight into the top ten in the UK, something few other artists have achieved.
Interestingly she met her stylist and creative director William Baker at a Vivienne Westwood store where he was working as a sales assistant and gave
him a break because he had so many interesting ideas. A very revealing insight into how open she must be to new ideas and people.
Kylie received an OBE for services to music and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, France's highest cultural honour. She has also won a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards, two MTV Video Music Awards and two MTV Europe Music Awards.
Kylie Minogue has always been known mononymously
as just Kylie and
amusingly enough there was a copyright battle between her and Kylie Jenner who tried to patent the name “Kylie” in the US. Minogue’s lawyers cited her as an “internationally renowned performing artist, humanitarian and breast cancer activist” while Jenner was described as a "secondary reality television personality" guilty of “photographic exhibitionism and controversial posts”. Even more surprising the opposition was withdrawn, considering that Minogue had been using the name a lot longer than Jenner, so Jenner could use it in the States. A large
sum of money may have exchanged hands here, but neither party have ever confided any details.
Sadly Kylie was diagnosed in 2005 with breast cancer and underwent surgery in Malvern, Australia, then chemotherapy at a hospital near Paris. Kylie openly discussed her cancer and treatment which led to a much greater awareness of the issue amongst young women which became known as the “Kylie effect”. The name “Kylie” actually means boomerang in
the Western language Noongar.
Her latest album “Golden” was released in April 2018, debuting at No. 1 in the UK and Australia. Golden was recorded partly in Nashville and there is some Dolly Parton influence in the title track, which is more emotional and heartfelt than her usual pop songs and without doubt her best album to date.
Kylie is appearing live at Hampton Court Palace 20-21 June, Blenheim Palace Woodstock 23 June, and Glastonbury 30 June. For more tour dates see her website.
www.kylie.com
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