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Her appearance, organized by Opus One, is part of a world tour called “KylieX 2008” to support her 10th album, titled X, which was relased in late 2007. For the uninitiated, Minogue, 39, is a singer and dancer who rose to fame in her home country in the 1980s because of her role in a television soap opera called Neighbours. She has sold more than 40 million records. Locally, she is known for her modelling appearances for such clients as H&M department stores.
28 | Kylie Minogue | Wow | Dec 2007 | |
5 | Kylie Minogue | Wow (re-entry) | Jan 2008 |
I liked very much Airhead but I didn't like their "Respectable" version.
18 | Girls @ Play | Airhead | Feb 2001 | |
29 | Girls @ Play | Respectable | Oct 2001 |
Here theirs history:
Girls@Play were a British five-piece girl group, consisting of Vicky Dowdall, Lisa-Jayne White, Rita Simons, Lynsey Shaw and Shelley Nash.[1] They were produced by Stock & Aitken (Mike Stock and Matt Aitken).
Each member of the band had a different character that they played in their music videos. Dowdall played a cowgirl, White an executive, Simons a mechanic, Shaw a New York City traffic cop and Nash a pilot. Vicky Dowdall is also known as a girl that cheats on her long term partner and lies about it to everyone including her close friends. She actually goes as far as try and cause serious trouble for the other man involved even though she pursued him and told him that she would dump her boyfriend for him.
The group released two singles; "Airhead"[2] on 12 February 2001[1] and "Respectable", a cover version of "Respectable" by Mel and Kim, on 1 October 2001. "Airhead" reached number 18 in the UK Top 40 chart on 18 February 2001, while "Respectable" reached number 29 on 7 October 2001.[3] They also supported Hear'Say and Steps on their arena tours in 2000/2001.[3]
The group decided to disband on 18 November 2001.[3]
In 1987, a debut single called "Never Gonna Give You Up" went to number one in 16 countries. An unremarkable looking 21-year-old boy from Cheshire was about to become wildly famous.
"I did enjoy it," he says. "But it was very, very weird. You can blab on about seeing the other side of fame, but it doesn't mean shit until it happens to you. It wasn't so much the going on TV, or going to award ceremonies, or having a camera focused on your face. It was being famous in the supermarket, being famous in a restaurant. Fame is not just about being able to get out of a limo in Leicester Square, it's about trying to get into your house when there are eight photographers outside. When you think about being famous, you don't think about all that stuff. You think about the glamour. I wanted to turn the tap off when I'd done my job. But you can't." ...
Her singing career was launched by the music producing trio Stock Aitken Waterman in 1989. She was signed after badgering Pete Waterman to listen to her sing outside the recording studio in Liverpool. Waterman did a regular weekly radio broadcast. He called her bluff and had her sing live on his show, and she later had several hits in the UK Singles Chart over the following years, including the UK number one single "You'll Never Stop Me Loving You" and a hit "You've Got a Friend" (credited to Big Fun & Sonia featuring Gary Barnacle), plus some other Top 20 hit singles, including "Can't Forget You" and "You To Me Are Everything".
She sang on two charity singles, Band Aid II's "Do They Know It's Christmas" in 1989 (peaked at #1 in the UK) and Gulf Aid's "As Time Stood Still" in 1991.
She also sang the Dean Collinson and Red composition "Better the Devil You Know" for the United Kingdom in the 1993 Eurovision Song Contest, where she finished in second place.
In 2003, Evans took part in the reality television show Reborn in the USA alongside Elkie Brooks and Tony Hadley, but was voted off in its fifth week.
In January 2007 she starred in the pantomime Jack and the Beanstalk, as Jack in Horsham, West Sussex, alongside Mark Curry. Late 2007 saw her greatest hits album released only featuring recordings from Sonia's time with BMG Music (1991-1993).
Sonia has also acted during her career, having been an extra in Brookside and in the television comedy Bread as the girlfriend of the youngest Boswell child, Billy. This was before her singing career took off and she is credited as Sonia Evans. She has also played alongside Lily Savage as her wayward daughter Bunty Savage, both on the BBC series The Lily Savage show and live shows.
Position | Artist | Title | Date | Details |
1 | Sonia | You'll Never Stop Me From Loving You | Jun 1989 | |
17 | Sonia | Can't Forget You | Oct 1989 | |
10 | Sonia | Listen To Your Heart | Dec 1989 | |
16 | Sonia | Counting Every Minute | Apr 1990 | |
18 | Sonia | End Of The World | Aug 1990 | |
10 | Sonia | Only Fools (Never Fall In Love) | Jun 1991 | |
22 | Sonia | Be Young Be Foolish Be Happy | Aug 1991 | |
13 | Sonia | You To Me Are Everything | Nov 1991 | |
30 | Sonia | Boogie Nights | Sep 1992 | |
15 | Sonia | Better The Devil You Know | May 1993 |
Kylie Minogue is feeling the squeeze from animal rights campaigners who have called her cold-blooded for carrying a python purse.
Minogue is one of a number of celebrities singled out by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta) for wearing fur or other animal products.
"What does Kylie Minogue have in common with her python purse?" Peta asks on its website. "They are both cold-blooded."