Kylie Minogue

Both parents had moved to Australia in 1958 as part of an assisted migration scheme on the ship Fairsea.

Also aboard were the Gibb family of later Bee Gees fame.

Minogue is of English and Welsh descent (though her surname is of Irish origin) and was named after the Nyungar word for "boomerang".

She 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.

The family frequently moved around various suburbs in Melbourne to sustain their living expenses, which Minogue found unsettling as a child.

She would often stay at home reading, sewing, and learning to play violin and piano.

When they moved to Surrey Hills, Victoria, she went on to Camberwell High School.

During her schooling years, she found it difficult to make friends.

She got her HSC with subjects including Arts and Graphics and English.

Minogue described herself as being of "average intelligence" and "quite modest" during her high school years.

Growing up, she and her sister Dannii took singing and dancing lessons.

Kylie Ann Minogue (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian singer, songwriter and actress.

Minogue is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.

She has been recognised for reinventing herself in music as well as fashion, and is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon.

Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards.

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 (née Jones), a former ballet dancer.

A 10-year-old Minogue accompanied Dannii to a hearing arranged by the sisters' aunt, Suzette, and, while producers found Dannii too young, Australian television producer Alan Hardy gave Minogue a minor role in soap opera The Sullivans (1979).

She began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four bubblegum and dance-pop-influenced studio albums under PWL.

In the following years, Minogue became the only female artist to have a number-one album and a top ten single, from the 1980s to the 2020s in the UK charts, with Disco (2020) and "Padam Padam" (2023) respectively.

She also appeared in another small role in soap opera Skyways (1980).

In 1985, she was cast in one of the lead roles in the television series The Henderson Kids.

Minogue took time off school to film The Henderson Kids and while Carol was not impressed, Minogue felt she needed the independence to make it into the entertainment industry.

During filming, co-star Nadine Garner labelled Minogue "fragile" after producers yelled at her for forgetting her lines; she would often cry on set.

Minogue was dropped from the second season of the show after Hardy felt the need for her character to be "written off".

In retrospect, Hardy stated removing her from the show "turned out to be the best thing for her".

Interested in following a career in music, Minogue made a demo tape for the producers of weekly music program Young Talent Time, which featured Dannii as a regular performer.

Minogue gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985 but was not invited to join the cast.

Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first achieved recognition starring as Charlene Robinson in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988).

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).

By the early 1990s, Minogue had amassed several top ten 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".

Taking more creative control over her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997).

By joining Parlophone in 1999, Minogue returned to mainstream dance-oriented music with Light Years (2000), including the number-one hits "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This".

Its lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head" became one of the most successful singles of the 2000s, selling over five million units.

Follow up singles, "In Your Eyes" and "Love at First Sight" became hits as well.

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".

The follow-up, Fever (2001), was an international breakthrough for Minogue, becoming her best-selling album to date.

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.).

In 2017, she partnered with BMG Rights Management, with "Dancing" (2018) as their first release.