Kylie Minogue was born on May 28,1968 in Melbourne, Australia. She is the first child of Ronald Charles Minogue, an accountant and Carol Jones, a former dancer. Kylie Minogue attended classes at Camberwell High School in Melbourne along with her sister Dannii. At the age of twelve, Kylie appeared in small roles in soap operas on Australian television such as The Sullivans and Skyways, before being cast in one of the lead roles in The Henderson Kids. She gave her first singing performance in 1983, on the weekly music show, Young Talent Time. Then in 1986 she was cast in the soap opera Neighbours. During a Fitzroy Football Club benefit concert with other Neighbours cast members, Minogue performed "The Loco-Motion" and was signed to a recording contract with Mushroom Records in 1987. Released as a single, the recording spent seven weeks at number one on the Australian music charts. As a result, Kylie Minogue then recorded and released her debut album, Kylie, in 1988. Kylie was a number one album in the United Kingdom, and it produced three number one singles in Australia. Kylie has since gone on to sell over thirteen million copies. Kylie Minogue has since released nine more albums and has over sixty million in album sales.
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