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BIOGRAPHY

Dannii Minogue
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Dannii Jane Minogue, born October 20, 1971, is an Australian singer/songwriter, actress and an occasional model and fashion designer. She rose to prominence in the early 1980s as a result of her role in the Australian television talent show Young Talent Time, before commencing her career as a pop singer and recording artist.

Dannii Minogue was born in Melbourne, Australia, to an Australian father, Ron Minogue, and a Welsh-born mother, Carol Minogue (neé Jones) who had immigrated as a child from Maesteg, Wales in 1955 to Townsville, Queensland. Minogue is the youngest of three children; her sister Kylie Minogue is a pop singer and actress, and her older brother, Brendan, has not followed a career as a performer.

Minogue began her career at the age of seven on Australian television, appearing in soap operas such as Skyways and The Sullivans. In 1979 she was invited to be a regular member of the Australian talent show Young Talent Time, quickly becoming one of the most popular and highest profile members in the show’s twenty year history. Minogue recorded on two albums for the show, which featured her first solo songs as a recording artist, and she also was featured on several sold-out Australian tours with the show. The first song Minogue recorded was a cover version of the Madonna hit "Material Girl" which appeared on the 1985 album Now and Then.

In 1988, Minogue's interest in fashion turned her into a successful designer, launching her own fashion line simply titled Dannii. The line was an immediate success selling out in tens days across Australia. During the next year she would release three additional lines, which were also successful.

In 1988, Minogue left Young Talent Time to further her career as an actress. Her first role after the talent show was on the Channel Nine mini-series All The Way as Penny Seymour. This role was followed up by the role as Emma Jackson, a teen rebel, on the hit soap opera Home and Away. The show was seen by fifty million people per week and gained Minogue a large fan base in Australia and in Europe. By the end of 1989, Minogue was voted by Australia’s TV Hits Magazine as the Best New Star of Year and as the Best Female Personality.

In late 2004, Minogue signed with Around The World Records, an independent dance label. In October of that year Minogue released the song "You Won't Forget About Me", which was based on the instrumental track "Flower Power" by Flower Power and features new lyrics written by Minogue. Originally dubbed as the first single from Minogue's follow-up to Neon Nights, the song was a chart hit, reaching number seven on the UK singles chart.

In October 2005, Minogue released the song "Perfection", which went to number eleven in the UK. As with "You Won't Forget About Me", "Perfection" featured Minogue singing new lyrics to an instrumental dance track, "Turn Me Upside Down" by Soul Seekerz. The song also sampled Vicki Sue Robinson's 1976 hit "Turn The Beat Around".

Minogue's follow-up album to 2003s hit Neon Nights is due in April 2006, with a new single being released in March.