Dannii Minogue

Danielle Jane Minogue (born 20 October 1971) is an Australian singer, television personality, and actress.

Danielle Jane Minogue was born on 20 October 1971 and brought up in Surrey Hills, Melbourne.

She attended Camberwell Primary School and later Camberwell High School.

She is the younger daughter of Carol Ann Jones, a dancer from Maesteg, Wales, and accountant Ronald Charles Minogue.

She is the youngest of three children; her older sister is singer Kylie Minogue, while her brother Brendan is a news cameraman in Australia.

Minogue began her career as a child on Australian television.

From the age of 7, she appeared in several soap operas, including Skyways and The Sullivans.

She first gained recognition for her appearances on the television show Young Talent Time (1982–1988) and for her role as Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away (1989–1990).

In 1982, she joined the weekly music programme Young Talent Time.

Minogue recorded her first solo recordings for the programme, including a cover version of Madonna's hit single "Material Girl"; during this time, she also performed live at several sold-out nationwide concert tours.

In 1988, Minogue departed from Young Talent Time to continue her acting career, appearing as the rebellious tomboyish teenager Emma Jackson on the soap opera Home and Away in 1989.

Minogue remained on the programme for only a year.

She proved to be popular among Australian audiences when she was nominated for a Silver Logie as the Most Popular Actress on Australian television.

In September 1988, Minogue released her own fashion range, Dannii.

She became interested in fashion design while appearing on Young Talent Time.

Minogue had designed the clothing she had worn on the show, and the positive response from the audience resulted in her releasing her own line.

Minogue's debut line Dannii sold out across Australia in ten days and was followed by three additional summer lines in 1989.

Minogue signed a recording contract with Australian-based Mushroom Records in January 1989.

Her first album, Dannii, was released the following year and reached number twenty-four on the Australian albums chart.

Minogue began her music career in the early 1990s, achieving early success with her debut studio album, Love and Kisses (1991), which was certified gold by the British Phonographic Industry, and included the hit singles "Love and Kisses", "Baby Love", "Jump to the Beat" and "Success".

The late 1990s saw a brief return to music after Minogue reinvented herself as a dance artist with her third album, Girl (1997), and its lead single "All I Wanna Do".

Outside Australia, the album was released in 1991 under the title Love and Kisses and peaked at number eight in the United Kingdom and was certified gold.

Minogue's debut single "Love and Kisses" peaked at number four on the Australian singles chart and was certified gold.

In the UK, the song peaked at number eight on the singles chart.

Subsequent singles "Success", "Jump to the Beat", "Baby Love" and "I Don't Wanna Take This Pain" all reached the UK top 40.

Minogue released Love and Kisses and..., a re-issue of her debut album, in November 1991.

The album, a collection of dance songs, comprised tracks and remixes from Love and Kisses.

It peaked at number 42 on the UK albums chart and sold nearly 60,000 copies in its own right.

Several remixes by producer and DJ Steve "Silk" Hurley were successful in European dance clubs.

She credits these remixes for providing her with a "new image and sound to work with" on future releases.

Also that year, Minogue made her feature film debut in Secrets, which co-starred Noah Taylor.

The film revolved around five Australian teenagers who become stuck in the basement of a hotel in an attempt to see The Beatles.

Following the release of her second album, Get into You (1993), Minogue's popularity as a singer had declined, leading her to make a name for herself with award-winning performances in theatre productions.

Her fourth album, Neon Nights (2003), became the most successful of her career and spawned the hit singles "Who Do You Love Now?", "I Begin to Wonder" and "Put the Needle on It".

In 2007, she released her fifth album, Club Disco.

In the UK, Minogue has achieved nine UK Top 10 singles and 13 consecutive number-one dance singles, becoming the best-performing artist on the UK Dance Chart.

In Australia, she has achieved twelve Top 30 singles and six Gold certified singles.

Minogue has served as a judge on multiple television talent shows, including The X Factor UK (2007–2010), Australia's Got Talent (2007–2012), Britain & Ireland's Next Top Model (2013), The X Factor Australia (2013–2015), Let It Shine (2017), and The Masked Singer Australia (2019–2021).

She starred in her own reality series Style Queen (2010) and has also presented the television shows It's Not Just Saturday (1996), Dance Boss (2018), Ultimate Beastmaster (2018), and I Kissed a Boy (2023).

As of January 2017, she has sold over eight million records worldwide.