Kylie Minogue wallpapers & Biography
Kylie Ann Minogue born 28 May 1968 is an Australian singer, singer, and actress. Often referred to as the "Princess of Pop", she has gained recognition as a major style icon in both the music industry and the fashion world. Her awards include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards, and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. Minogue is the best-selling Australian female artist of all time, with sales of over 80 million records worldwide. In 2024, Time included her in their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue first gained recognition playing Charlene Robinson on the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988). She released four dance-pop studio albums in the late 1980s under her music label, PWL. By the early 1990s, Minogue had amassed several hit 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 greater control of her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997).
In film, Minogue made her debut in The Delinquents (1989) and has 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 in 2014, with The Philosopher. Her other work includes product endorsements, books, On Fame, charitable work and a wine brand. Minogue's ARIA Hall of Fame inductees, on her website, include 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 Honorary Doctor of Health Sciences (DHSC).
Personal Life
Kylie Ann Minogue was born on 28 May 1968 at Bethlehem Hospital in Caulfield South, a suburb of Melbourne, Victoria.Her father was Caroline Ann a former ballet dancer, and Ronald Charles Nogg, a regent for a car company.Her mother emigrated to Australia from Wales in 1958 on an assisted passage scheme on the ship Fairsea. The Gibb family, who later became part of the Bee Gees' stable, were also on the ship Minogue is of Irish, English and Welsh descent She was named Kylie after the Nyungarword for "boomerang". The family moved frequently to various suburbs of Melbourne to meet living expenses, which Minogue found unsettling as a child. She often read at home on the beach, sang, and learned to play the violin and piano. When they moved to All Hills, Victoria, she moved to Camberwell High School.During her classical education, she found it difficult to make friends She took a H.S.S.C. with subjects including Art and Literature and English.Minogue described herself as being of "average intelligence" and "fairly random" during her high school years.Like her older brother, she and her sister Dannii took singing and dancing lessons.
Minogue released her seventeenth studio album, Tension II, on 18 October 2024, with "Lights Camera Action" as the lead single.Serving as a "companion" to Tension, the album features collaborations with Blessed Madonna, Diplo, Tove Lo, Orville Peck, Bebe Rexha and Sia. The album peaked at number one in Australia and the UK. Puah Ziwei of NME described the album as "tough and bold", claiming that it "surpasses its predecessor and stands strong on its own".
In 2025, Minogue began her Tension Tour in Perth, Australia on 15 February. Described by Billboard as Minogue's "biggest tour since 2011", it visited North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia.Sian Cain of The Guardian described the tour as "a journey through every Kylie Minogue era and a reminder of the many hits Minogue has produced".On 20 March 2025, the mystery drama television series The Residence premiered on , with Minogue herself featured as a musical guest.
Personal life
Actors Jason Donovan and Kylie Minogue began dating while starring in the Australian soap opera, Neighbours. They were in a relationship from 1986 to From 1989 to 1991, she dated Australian singer Michael Hutchence of the band INXS.
Minogue later had a relationship with French actor Olivier Martinez, which ended in 2007. She was also engaged to British actor Joshua Sasse until 2017, followed by a five-year relationship with GQ executive Paul Solomons from 2018 to 2023.
Minogue, along with several other artists, recorded a cover version of "Everybody Hurts" from Helping Haiti.The single was released as a fundraising event for the aftermath of the 2010 Haiti earthquake. During her 2011 Aphrodite World Tour, the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami immobilised Japan, which she visited on her schedule. She announced that she would continue touring there, saying, "I was showing up here and I decided not to cancel it, why did I decide not to cancel it? I thought hard and hard about it and it wasn't an easy decision." While he was there, he and Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard were star guests at an Australian Embassy fundraising event for the disaster. As part of the campaign, he released the single "Crystallisation", in which the public was able to bid to own each of the song's 4,408 notes via an online film. The proceeds of the film were donated to APRESC, with the successful bidders' names appearing below the credits of the music video. In January 2020, in response to the 2019–20 Australian bushfire season, he announced that he and his family were donating A$500,000 to the cause.
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