Sexy and she know it : Kylie Minogue
Kylie Ann Minogue, OBE (born 28 May 1968), often known simply as Kylie, is an Australian singer, recording artist, songwriter and actress. After beginning her career as a child actress on Australian television, she achieved recognition through her role in the television soap opera Neighbours, before commencing her career as a recording artist in 1987.Minogue has achieved worldwide record sales of more than 68 million, and has received notable music awards, including multiple ARIA and Brit Awards and a Grammy Award. She has mounted several successful and critically acclaimed concert world tours and received a Mo Award for “Australian Entertainer of the Year” for her live performances. She was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.) by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 “for services to music”. In the same year she was appointed by the French Government as a Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, the junior grade of France’s highest cultural honour, for her contribution to the enrichment of French culture. In 2011 her hit single “I Should Be So Lucky” was added to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia’s Sounds of Australia registry. The same year, Minogue was awarded an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) degree by Anglia Ruskin University in the United Kingdom for her work in raising awareness for breast cancer. In November 2011, on the 25th anniversary of the ARIA Music Awards, Minogue was inducted by the Australian Recording Industry Association into the ARIA Hall of Fame.
As Australia’s answer to Madonna ever since she brought back “The Loco-Motion” nearly 25 years ago, Kylie Minogue has put her breezy bubble gum-pop stamp on pop culture through a number of hits. Her subject matter may not be very deep, but the songs are quite catchy. While a great deal of her success has been restricted to foreign markets like Europe and Australia, the songs that Kylie Minogue has had success with in North America are impossible to forget. Is there anyone out there who really hasn’t — at one time — had the simple chorus to the appropriately titled “Can’t Get You Out of My Head” trapped in their head? Thought so.Part singer, part showgirl and part playful spirit, Kylie Minogue keeps the fun of being a professional musical artist alive in an age when being dark and brooding is so often a path to success. The fact that Kylie is still here and still successful is a testament to her bravery in overcoming life-threatening breast cancer and to her willingness to continually have fun with the evolution of her professional image.
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Standing at just under 5 feet tall, Kylie Minogue is something of an Australian sexual firecracker. Her smoldering physique, including a backside hailed by The Sun in London as “a national treasure,” is magnified by a vivacious and sexually adventurous personality. Calling herself “a natural flirt” and an exhibitionist, Kylie likes to have a lot of sex in her relationships and has been known to fill the void on tour by having intimate phone conversations with her partners back home. Her boyfriends who have been lucky enough to travel with her have come to expect the unexpected. Legend has it that Kylie Minogue is a member of the Mile High Club.Kylie Minogue’s celebrity ex-boyfriends date back to her Australian costar, Jason Donovan, from their TV series, Neighbours. From there, she became acquainted with the late INXS frontman, Michael Hutchence, and served as the inspiration for the band’s hit single, “Suicide Blonde.” In addition, she’s dated model James Gooding, actor Olivier Martinez, and currently, another model, Andres Velencoso. For the men out there who feel that Kylie Minogue is clearly out of their league, there’s hope. In the ’90s, she had a six-month relationship with comedian and ex-MTV personality Pauly Shore, who took her to on her first trip to Las Vegas. While there’s still an APB out on the career whereabouts of Pauly Shore, at least he can retire knowing that he got further with Kylie Minogue than nearly all of the world’s population.
For a onetime teen actress with a musical dream, Kylie Minogue’s success has easily surpassed even the most wildly optimistic of expectations.
A Grammy, Brit Award and MTV Music Video Award-winner (among many other accolades), Kylie Minogue has released a string of impossibly catchy singles through 11 albums of professional music experience — all to the tune of over 60 million albums sold. Kylie Minogue’s global success, live performance style and fashion sense have often been compared to Madonna. Kylie Minogue says that even though Madonna was one of her influences, it was challenging to compete with the Material Girl early on because she “had done everything there was to be done.” As astute industry observers have come to learn, however, Kylie Minogue has established her own niche as one of pop music’s most carefree and charismatic female performers, leaving the darker and more serious creative persona to Madonna. One other trait they do share is questionable acting judgment and suspect abilities, as Kylie Minogue has previously starred in D.O.A. duds like Street Fighter and Bio-Dome, which helped earn her the title of “the worst English-speaking actress in the English-speaking world” by The Washington Post. Luckily, she has a pretty good day job.Kylie Minogue’s musical inclinations started at the age of eight, when she and her friends would regularly create Abba air bands, complete with makeshift microphones from brooms. Before she and her sister, Dannii Minogue (a future judge on The X Factor), could enter the professional music arena, they turned to television. A pair of soap operas, The Sullivans and Skyways, were teenage Kylie Minogue’s first ventures into television, but it was her casting in 1986 as Charlene, a trusty car mechanic, on the series Neighbours that brought in a solid audience.
Minogue began a relationship with the French actor, Olivier Martinez, after meeting him at the 2002 Grammy Awards ceremony. They ended their relationship in February 2007, but remained on friendly terms. Minogue was reported to have been “saddened by false accusations of Martinez’s disloyalty”. She defended Martinez, and acknowledged the support he had given during her treatment for breast cancer. Minogue has been in a relationship with model Andrés Velencoso since 2008.Minogue was diagnosed with breast cancer at age 36 on 17 May 2005, leading to the postponement of the remainder of her Showgirl — The Greatest Hits Tour and her withdrawal from the Glastonbury Festival. Her hospitalisation and treatment in Melbourne resulted in a brief but intense period of media coverage, particularly in Australia, where Prime Minister John Howard issued a statement supporting Minogue.As media and fans began to congregate outside the Minogue residence in Melbourne, the Victorian Premier Steve Bracks warned the international media that any disruption of the Minogue family’s rights under Australian privacy laws would not be tolerated. His comments became part of a wider criticism of the media’s overall reaction, with particular criticism directed towards paparazzi. Minogue underwent surgery on 21 May 2005 at Cabrini Hospital in Malvern, and commenced chemotherapy treatment soon after.On 8 July 2005, she made her first public appearance after surgery, when she visited a children’s cancer ward at Melbourne’s Royal Children’s Hospital. She returned to France where she completed her chemotherapy treatment at the Institut Gustave-Roussy in Villejuif, near Paris. In December 2005 Minogue released a digital-only single, “Over the Rainbow”, a live recording from her Showgirl tour. Her children’s book, The Showgirl Princess, written during her period of convalescence, was published in October 2006, and her perfume, “Darling”, was launched in November. This range was later augmented by eau de toilettes such as Pink Sparkle, Couture and Inverse. On her return to Australia for her concert tour she discussed her illness, and said that her chemotherapy treatment had been like “experiencing a nuclear bomb”. While appearing on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2008, Minogue said that her cancer had originally been misdiagnosed. She commented, “Because someone is in a white coat and using big medical instruments doesn’t necessarily mean they’re right”, but later spoke of her respect for the medical profession.Minogue was acknowledged for the impact she had made by publicly discussing her cancer diagnosis and treatment; in May 2008, the French Cultural Minister Christine Albanel said, “Doctors now even go as far as saying there is a “Kylie effect” that encourages young women to have regular checks.”
