8M+Kylie+Minogue

=__**Biography**__=

__1968__

She was born in Melbourne on the 28th may 1968 as the oldest amongst her 2 siblings, Dannii and Brendan Minogue. She was born to her father, Ronald Charles Minogue, who was an accountant of Irish ancestry, and her mother Carol Ann (née Jones), a former dancer from Maesteg, Wales. She had lived in Wales up until age ten when her mother and father, Denis and Millie Jones, decided to move to Australia for a better living. She was raised in Surrey Hills, Melbourne and attended Camberwell High school for education.

__1979__

From the age of 11, Kylie appeared in small roles in soap operas such as // The Sullivans // and // Skyways //, and in 1985 was cast in one of the lead roles in // The Henderson Kids //. Interested in following a career in music, she made a demo tape for the producers of the weekly music programme // Young Talent Time //, [|[19]]  which featured Dannii as a regular performer.

__ 1985 __

Kylie gave her first television singing performance on the show in 1985 but was not invited to join the cast. Dannii's success overshadowed Kylie's acting achievements.

__ 1986 __

Kylie got her big break when she got cast in the Australian soap opera 'neighbours'. She fulfilled the role of Charlene Mitchell, a schoolgirl turned garage mechanic. // Neighbours // achieved popularity in the UK, and a story arc that created a romance between her character and the character played by Jason Donovan, culminated in a wedding episode in 1987 that attracted an audience of 20 million British viewers. Her popularity in Australia was demonstrated when she became the first person to win four Logie Awards in one event, and the youngest recipient of the " Gold Logie " as the country's "Most Popular Television Performer", with the result determined by public vote. __ 1987-1987 __

During a Fitzroy Football Club benefit concert with other // Neighbours // cast members, Minogue performed " I Got You Babe " as a duet with the actor John Waters, and "The Loco-Motion" as an encore, and was subsequently signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records in 1987. She then rocketed sky high when her first single, the locomotion, spent seven weeks at number 1 on the Australian singles charts and then became the country's highest selling single in the 80's, which she also received an aria award for. This successful time period resulted in Kylie travelling to England with mushroom records executive Gary Ashley to work with the producers Stock, Aitken and Waterman. They ended up forgetting her arrival and she ended up writing "I should be so lucky" as she waited outside the studio. The song ended up hitting number one all around the world and as a result of this, she won her second consecutive ARIA for the year's highest selling single, and received a special achievement award.

__ 1988 __

Kylie's debut album, //Kylie//, was released in July 1988. The album was a collection of dance-oriented pop tunes and it spent more than a year on the UK Albums Chart, including several weeks at number one. The album went gold in the US, and again her single, The locomotion, reached number three on the US billboard top 100 chart.

Her occupations include singer, songwriter, actress, record and film producer, author, entrepreneur, fashion designer, showgirl and humanitarian.

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