Kylie Ann Minogue AO OBE (/mɪˈnoʊɡ/; born 28 May 1968), is an Australian singer and actress. Known as the "Princess of Pop", Minogue has been noted for her reinventions in music and fashion. Her accolades include two Grammy Awards, four Brit Awards and eighteen ARIA Music Awards. She is the highest-selling female recording artist from Australia, with sales of over 80 million records worldwide.
Born and raised in Melbourne, Minogue started as an actress in the Australian soap opera Neighbours (1986–1988). She began her music career in the late 1980s, releasing four albums under PWL. This gave her several hits in Australia and the UK, including "The Loco-Motion", "I Should Be So Lucky", "Especially for You", "Hand on Your Heart" and "Better the Devil You Know". Taking more creative control over her music, she signed with Deconstruction Records in 1993 and released the albums Kylie Minogue (1994) and Impossible Princess (1997) before leaving the label.
After joining Parlophone in 1999, Minogue released Light Years (2000), including the Australian number ones "Spinning Around" and "On a Night Like This". Her next album, Fever (2001), was her international breakthrough becoming her best selling album to date. The lead single, "Can't Get You Out of My Head", topped the charts in over 40 countries and sold over five million copies. Subsequent singles, "In Your Eyes" and "Love at First Sight", peaked inside the top three in the UK. In the following years, she continued experimenting on her subsequent albums, which spawned hits such as "Slow", "I Believe in You", "2 Hearts" and "All the Lovers". She is the only female artist to have a UK number-one album and t op ten hitsin five consecutive decades, with Disco (2020) and the song "Padam Padam" from Tension (2023) respectively.
Outside of music, Minogue made her film debut in The Delinquents (1989), and appeared in Street Fighter (1994), Moulin Rouge! (2001), Holy Motors (2012) and San Andreas (2015). In reality television, she appeared as a judge on both The Voice UK and The Voice Australia, both in 2014. Her other ventures include product endorsements, books, perfumes, and a wine brand. Additional achievements include being an ARIA Hall of Fame inductee, Officer of the Order of Australia (AO), Officer of the Order of the British Empire, Chevalier (knight) of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an honorary Doctor of Health Science (D.H.Sc.) for her work in cancer awareness. Time magazine has honoured her on its annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2024.