Kylie Minogue confirms Australian homecoming after 30 years living, working in United Kingdom - ABC News

After 30 years spent living and working in the United Kingdom, the "queen of pop" Kylie Minogue has confirmed she is moving back home to Australia. 

Key points:

• Kylie Minogue told the BBC she plans to leave London and return to Melbourne
• A year ago she told the ABC she missed Australia and "can't wait to come home" 

Speaking to the BBC, the 53-year-old said she'd recently made the call to move back to Melbourne.

"I have spent a lot of time with my family this year in Australia and it felt really good," she told the BBC.

Last October, Minogue opened up to the ABC's 7:30 program about missing her family and recording an album during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

She told 7.30's Leigh Sales the global coronavirus crisis had been an "emotional rollercoaster".

"I have never felt further from home or from my family," she said. 

"Time is so weird right now — was something yesterday or was it six months ago? — but it shouldn't be too long before I can get home. Anyway, hopefully."

Minogue recorded her latest album, Disco — which was released in November 2020 — in a studio set up at her home, working with collaborators over Zoom.

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Kylie Minogue spoke to 7.30 in October 2020, when Melbourne was coming out of lockdown.

In her BBC interview, Minogue said she was surprised by the public reaction to the announcement, but told friends and fans in the UK that she would come back to visit. 

"I've had friends call me, my friend at my local restaurant was saying: 'Kylie, what do you mean? You can't go'."

"I said: 'I'm not really going. I've lived here for 30 years, I'm always going to be back."

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Record-making career

Disco made Minogue the first female solo artist to have number one albums in the UK in five different decades and only the second solo artist to do so in consecutive decades, after Bruce Springsteen.

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Disco was also Minogue's eighth UK number one album, taking her one ahead of Cliff Richard, Elton John and George Michael.

She has sold more than 70 million records worldwide and is the most successful Australian female recording artist of all time.

Minogue has won a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards, 17 ARIA Music Awards and numerous others, and been appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire in 2008, and an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2019.

Her first chart-topping album was Kylie in 1988, followed by Enjoy Yourself (1989), Greatest Hits (1992), Fever (2001), Aphrodite (2010), Golden (2018) and Step Back In Time: The Definitive Collection (2019).

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Minogue and her younger sister, Danii, took singing and dancing lessons as a child but she began her career as an actor at the age of 10, when she was cast in the long-running TV soap opera The Sullivans, in 1979.

Other acting roles followed before she sent a demo tape to weekly music program Young Talent Time, which featured Danii as a regular performer.

Minogue was not invited to joint the cast but did give her first televised singing performance — a duet with her sister — on the show in 1985.

In 1986, Minogue was cast in the soap opera Neighbours, as Charlene Mitchell, becoming a fan favourite character and attracting an audience of 20 million viewers in the UK when her character married Jason Donovan's Scott Robinson in 1987.

Minogue became the first person to win four Logie Awards in a single year and was the youngest recipient of a Gold Logie for most popular television performer.

Also in 1987, Minogue was signed to Mushroom Records by legendary producer Michael Gudinski, who was sent a demo recording of her singing the 1962 pop song The Loco-Motion.

Retitled Locomotion, the song became the best-selling single of the decade in Australia and led to her recording her debut album, Kylie, between London and Melbourne.

Kylie spent more than a year on the UK Albums Chart, including several weeks at number one, became the best-selling album of the 1980s by a female artist and went gold in the United States.

Later that year, Minogue left Neighbours to focus on her music career but has continued to act, with her last credit being 2018's Swinging Safari alongside Guy Pearce.

Over her career to date she has released 15 studio albums, eight live albums, 13 compilation albums, 10 EPs and 11 remix albums in addition to two box sets.

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