Rob's Kylie Minogue Site (Biography 1)

She was born Kylie Ann Minogue, in Bethlehem Hospital, Melbourne on 28th May, 1968. Kylie was born into a safe, secure and typical middle-class Australian family. However, the Kylie story really starts thousands of miles from Melbourne, in Maesteg, Wales. It was from Maesteg, in 1955 that Dennis and Millie Jones decided to emigrate to Melbourne. They took with them their four children, Jean, Carol, Suzette and Noel. Carol at this time was 11.

Carol met a young accountant, called Ron Minogue and they eventually married. When Carol was 24, she gave birth to her first child, Kylie Ann. When Kylie was growing up, whenever she was asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she said, "Probably famous", like every other kid. She and sister Dannii used to "prance around the bedroom" pretending to be Abba. Kylie always wanted to be Agnetha, the blonde one.

Carol always encouraged her children to express themselves, but according to Kylie was never the pushy type. Carol confesses that she doesn't know how the girls got their fantastic singing voices because she says she can't sing a note!

Dannii has gone on to be a star in her own right with 17 hit singles (7 top 10) and 4 hit albums to her name. Their brother, Brendan, is a film cameraman.

Then	Kylie and Dannii	Now

Kylie first made her name in Australia in the television series "The Sullivans" which was then followed by a role in series one of "The Henderson Kids". However, it was in "Neighbours" where she really found fame. She played tomboy Charlene Mitchell.  In her first scene, she was mistaken for a burglar by Scott Robinson, and she flattened him with a punch! She eventually became a mechanic. The most watched episode of the show was when Charlene married Scott (played by Jason Donovan).

She left Neighbours in 1988 after appearing in 542 episodes to concentrate on her music career. This side of her career had started when she sang "The Locomotion" at a Charity event for the Melbourne Aussie Rules team. She was spotted by someone from Mushroom records and she recorded the song for Mushroom. It became a massive hit in Australia, remaining at number 1 for 8 weeks. She was then picked up Stock, Aitken and Waterman in London and eventually released "I Should Be So Lucky" on their own PWL label after it had been turned down by all the major labels.

She is in the Guinness Book of Records for having the best start to a chart career when her first thirteen singles all went into the top 10, the first eleven of which went into the top 4. That first single, "I Should Be So Lucky", which written by the hit writing trio, Stock, Aitken And Waterman, went to Number 1 in 18 countries throughout the world, and stayed at the top in Britain for 5 weeks.

Her last Number 1 of the Nineties was "Tears On My Pillow" which featured in the movie "The Delinquents". This movie marked Kylie's big screen debut. The single went to Number 1 on January 27th, 1990. It would be another 10 years and 20 single before Kylie made Number 1 again with "Spinning Around" which hit the top of the charts 25th June, 2000.

She has duetted with Jason Donavan, Keith Washington and Nick Cave and has also done vocals on hits for The Visionmasters and Towa Tei.  She also recorded a song called "In Denial" with the Pet Shop Boys which she performed live on the Showgirl Tour in 2005.

She has the fastest selling debut album for a female artist with her album "Kylie", released in 1988 on the PWL label. She was also the youngest female to top the album charts.

She has also starred in such movies as "The Delinquents" with Charlie Schlatter and "Street Fighter" alongside Jean-Claude Van Damme.  In 2005 she also voiced the character of Florence in the animated movie "The Magic Roundabout".