Actress Kylie MinogueLatest Wallpapers & Biography
Date of Birth- 28 May 1968, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Birth Name- Kylie Ann Minogue
Height- 5' 1¾" (1.57 m)
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.
The romance between Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan's characters on Neighbours developed Kylie Minogue's local fan base in Australia and expanded it into the UK. As a perk to her added popularity, Kylie Minogue was given the opportunity to sing at a football fundraising event. One of the two songs performed was a cover of "The Loco-Motion," which received such a positive response that it helped her earn a recording contract with Mushroom Records only a short time later. The song hit the Australian markets in 1987 as a single and quickly became the country's best-selling '80s single. Kylie Minogue later won the Gold Logie Award for Most Popular Personality on Australian Television in 1988 before leaving the show to pursue a music career instead.
