Dannii Minogue Biography and Profile

Biography

Nama : Dannii Minogue
Birth Name : Danielle Jane Minogue
Birth Date : 10/20/1971
Birth Place : Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Height : 5' 2"
Sex : F
Nationality : Australian
Occupation : Pop singer
Father : Ron Minogue
Mother : Carol Jones Minogue
Spouse : Julian McMahon (actor, Jan 02, 1994 - 1995)
Relation : Jacques Villeneuve (Formula One driver, engaged, 1999-2001), Stelios Haji-loannou (Chairman & Founder of Easyjet Airlines, 2001)
Claim Fame : Single "Who Do You Love Now?" (2001)

Danielle Jane "Dannii" Minogue (born October 20, 1971) is an Australian-born singer-songwriter. She is also the sister of Australian superstar Kylie Minogue and has lived in Kylie's shadow her entire career. She began her career on the Australian talent show Young Talent Time. From there she landed a role in the successful soap opera Home and Away. This led to Dannii following her sister Kylie into the pop charts. Her debut album Love And Kisses, released in 1990, contained five top 40 hits including "Success" and "Jump To The Beat". Dannii also filmed her first and so far only film role in Secrets (1993).

Follow up recording Get Into You (1993) fared less successfully, with "This Is It" being her only top 10 hit from it. After the failure of Get Into You Dannii parted company with RCA and Mushroom Records.

In 1997 Dannii landed a multi million dollar contract with Eternal Records, who released the album Girl with her first top 5 hit "All I Wanna Do". However, Girl limped into the UK charts at #57, falling out of the top 200 by its third week. Following the album's commerical failure and the failure of the rest of the album's singles, she was dropped again.

Now without a record deal, Dannii returned to acting and toured Australia in the sell out Grease: The Arena Spectacular and followed that with performances in the The Hunchback of Notre Dame in London's West End as well as the Vagina Monologues.

In 2001, Dannii recorded a song with dance act Riva, the track "Who Do You Love Now?". This became Dannii's 13th top 40 hit in the UK , reaching #3 on the charts. Following the success of this, Dannii landed a 6 album deal with London Records. Her first album under this deal was 2003's "Neon Nights". This album, which entered the UK charts at #8, gave her 3 more UK Top 10 hits, including her biggest to date - "I Begin To Wonder" which reached #2. "I Begin To Wonder" was also briefly released as a remix with the huge Dead Or Alive hit "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)" The remix was a huge UK club-track. Neon Nights was co-written and co-producer by Dannii. "Neon Nights" is Dannii's most successful album to date. Despite that success, she parted company with London Records. Reportedly she was let go given that she still wasn't selling enough records to turn a profit, however officially they parted amicably due to 'management change' within London Records' structure.

Dannii was married to Australian actor Julian McMahon and after their divorce was engaged for a time in the mid 1990s to Canadian Formula One driver Jacques Villeneuve. She also participated in the first Gumball 3000 rally, driving a Porsche Boxster.

In late 2004, Dannii released "You Won't Forget About Me", a state of the art bootleg that utilizes an original song written by Dannii and the backing track of "Flower Power". This marks the first release off her forthcoming 2005 album. Dannii's "You Won't Forget About Me" entered the UK Single Charts at #7 and the Australian single charts at #20. She also just signed with Around The World Records, an independent label which will release her next, almost completed album.