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Kylie Minogue Tacks North American Stops onto World Tour : January 11, 2011
Kylie’s first venture into show business was via the long-running Australian soap opera ‘Neighbours’, where she portrayed the cutesy, wholesome, teen mechanic Charlene Mitchell. Like many artists who transitioned from being a screen personality to a recording artist, she was initially plagued by critics who wrote her off as nothing more than someone who popularizes songs penned by high-caliber songwriters by capitalizing on her popularity as a TV star. ‘Locomotion’, her first single which was released at the height of her Neighbours’ fame, topped the Australian singles chart for seven weeks. This was followed by her UK chart-topping eponymous debut which spawned her first UK chart-topping single, ‘I Should be so Lucky’, written by acclaimed British songwriting and producing trio, Stock, Aitken and Waterman. But she left the trio and her label at the time, Mushroom Records, after her contract expired in 1992, acknowledging in her own words what critics have always panned her for, “a puppet”. She signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993, a move that marked a turning point in her career at the time, for it was during this phase that she released critically raved singles like ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’, a heavy, story-telling ballad collaboration with Nick Cave, and the 1997 highly raved full-length dance set, ‘Impossible Princess’, where her creative fingerprint is apparent in every song and music video.
Through the years, Kylie has reinvented her sound and image - from her pop-dance 1988 debut ‘Kylie’, to the electro-house-pop record ‘Fever’ (2001), to 2010’s nu-disco themed ‘Aphrodite’ - in an effort to stay creative, relevant and trendy, and to reach a wider market. Despite garnering constant success in her native Australia, neighboring Asia and in Europe, particularly in the UK, it took the singer about 13 years before she finally became a household name in the United States, thanks to the 2001 club hit ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’, which became an unofficial anthem for partygoers because of its rhythmic, electric infused beats and a provocative music video (before Lady Gaga came up with music videos featuring hot men and women all over each other, Kylie beat her to the punch, only hers were more tastefully done).
Her battle with breast cancer, with which she was diagnosed in 2005, placed her all the more under the limelight where the media attention was so heightened, key Australian political figures had to step in to protect the singer and her family’s privacy. It also forced her to cancel the remaining shows on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour. The following year, after successful surgery, chemotherapy and recuperation, Kylie resumed her ‘Showgirl’ tour, but renamed it to Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, as she spent most of the tour performing in Australia after spending months of chemotherapy session in France.
To date, Kylie Minogue has released eleven studio albums, with the latest being ‘Aphrodite’ (2010), from which the dance tracks ‘All the Lovers’ and ‘Get Outta My Way’ are taken. She has also released four live albums, ‘Intimate and Live’ (1998), ‘Showgirl’ (2005), ‘Showgirl Homecoming Live’ (2007) and ‘Kylie: Live in New York’, which was recorded during her three-night stint at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC from October 11-13, 2009. Nine compilation albums have also surfaced from 1992 to March 2011, as well as six EPs. At present, she has sold 68 million records, has multiple awards from home and beyond, including a Grammy Award for her song ‘Come into My World’ (2002, ‘Best Dance Recording’) and has also been conferred the title of Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
On Tuesday, pop singer Kylie Minogue announced dates for the singer's forthcoming 2011 world tour “Aphrodite Live.” The singer of “Can't Get You Out of My Head [...]
kylie minogue Biography
Kylie Minogue is a multi-awarded Australian performer and a cancer survivor. In a career that has spanned a quarter of a century, she is one of the few artists to survive the fickle-minded and fragile performing industry and transcended the manufactured pop artist stereotype, thanks to her versatility, continuous musical reinvention, artistry, glamour and allure.Kylie’s first venture into show business was via the long-running Australian soap opera ‘Neighbours’, where she portrayed the cutesy, wholesome, teen mechanic Charlene Mitchell. Like many artists who transitioned from being a screen personality to a recording artist, she was initially plagued by critics who wrote her off as nothing more than someone who popularizes songs penned by high-caliber songwriters by capitalizing on her popularity as a TV star. ‘Locomotion’, her first single which was released at the height of her Neighbours’ fame, topped the Australian singles chart for seven weeks. This was followed by her UK chart-topping eponymous debut which spawned her first UK chart-topping single, ‘I Should be so Lucky’, written by acclaimed British songwriting and producing trio, Stock, Aitken and Waterman. But she left the trio and her label at the time, Mushroom Records, after her contract expired in 1992, acknowledging in her own words what critics have always panned her for, “a puppet”. She signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993, a move that marked a turning point in her career at the time, for it was during this phase that she released critically raved singles like ‘Where the Wild Roses Grow’, a heavy, story-telling ballad collaboration with Nick Cave, and the 1997 highly raved full-length dance set, ‘Impossible Princess’, where her creative fingerprint is apparent in every song and music video.
Through the years, Kylie has reinvented her sound and image - from her pop-dance 1988 debut ‘Kylie’, to the electro-house-pop record ‘Fever’ (2001), to 2010’s nu-disco themed ‘Aphrodite’ - in an effort to stay creative, relevant and trendy, and to reach a wider market. Despite garnering constant success in her native Australia, neighboring Asia and in Europe, particularly in the UK, it took the singer about 13 years before she finally became a household name in the United States, thanks to the 2001 club hit ‘Can’t Get You Out of My Head’, which became an unofficial anthem for partygoers because of its rhythmic, electric infused beats and a provocative music video (before Lady Gaga came up with music videos featuring hot men and women all over each other, Kylie beat her to the punch, only hers were more tastefully done).
Her battle with breast cancer, with which she was diagnosed in 2005, placed her all the more under the limelight where the media attention was so heightened, key Australian political figures had to step in to protect the singer and her family’s privacy. It also forced her to cancel the remaining shows on her Showgirl: The Greatest Hits Tour. The following year, after successful surgery, chemotherapy and recuperation, Kylie resumed her ‘Showgirl’ tour, but renamed it to Showgirl: The Homecoming Tour, as she spent most of the tour performing in Australia after spending months of chemotherapy session in France.
To date, Kylie Minogue has released eleven studio albums, with the latest being ‘Aphrodite’ (2010), from which the dance tracks ‘All the Lovers’ and ‘Get Outta My Way’ are taken. She has also released four live albums, ‘Intimate and Live’ (1998), ‘Showgirl’ (2005), ‘Showgirl Homecoming Live’ (2007) and ‘Kylie: Live in New York’, which was recorded during her three-night stint at the Hammerstein Ballroom in NYC from October 11-13, 2009. Nine compilation albums have also surfaced from 1992 to March 2011, as well as six EPs. At present, she has sold 68 million records, has multiple awards from home and beyond, including a Grammy Award for her song ‘Come into My World’ (2002, ‘Best Dance Recording’) and has also been conferred the title of Order of the British Empire (OBE) by Queen Elizabeth II.
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