Dannii Minogue

AATW Artist Profile | Updated: 16th Jan 2007 | Viewed: 17294 Times

Dannii`s latest single, So Under Pressure, became yet another top 20 hit for the young Ms Minogue...continuing her run of 15 years of hits.

All the best of Dannii can be found on her new album The Hits & Beyond which is now available in the UK

The album contains all her biggest hits plus 5 brand new tracks and there is a special edition which contains a DVD featuring all her videos shot over the last decade and a half...a veritable bargain so go and get one now

www.danniimusic.com has had an `Extreme Make Over` and is full of info and exclusive unseen pictures.


Enjoying a staggering sixteen years in the music industry as a top selling recording artist, nineteen hit singles and four top selling UK albums, Dannii Minogue returns to the charts this summer with her twentieth UK single, `So Under Pressure`, a song that will no doubt continue Dannii`s reign as the undisputed queen of the dance floor.

Taken from her new album `The Hits & Beyond`, the highly charged `So Under Pressure` showcases Dannii`s writing skills as she joins up with co-writers Terry Ronald and Mike Ward and legendary dance producer Lee Monteverde of LMC Productions. Lyrically the song glimpses into Dannii`s private struggles over the past difficult year.

“It`s a real achievement for me that I was brave enough to put all that into words,” Dannii reflects. “I`d spent all year saying, everything`s going to be fine, we`re all strong, but then you hear in the song that some days I actually felt like I was in quicksand. I didn`t want to go into work at all the day I wrote that but then I realised that is what a songwriter is supposed to do, to write about what you`re feeling and experiencing. I found that writing about this struggle, helped me find peace in it.”

Never one to take the easy option, Dannii also came up with a particularly challenging video to accompany the single which involves her being wrapped in a cream python twice her size (10 foot 5 inches), drilled into a claustrophobic Perspex box and being lifted through a white tunnel until she couldn`t take it any more. “I tried to put different things in the video that made me feel under pressure and it really did!” she laughs. “It was the hardest video I`ve ever done so I kept thinking, why on earth did I come up with this concept? People don’t realise but I definitely have that Australian tomboy side to me. I love snakes and sharks and jumping out of planes and stuff. Growing up it never occurred to me that it wasn’t a girly thing to ride a bike, covered in mud holding frogs and collecting lizards!”

Dannii`s dance music career started in the early 90`s, her passion for the music elevated her from keen clubber to the voice behind the very tracks getting people into clubs. After forging a friendship with Pete Tong, the superstar DJ asked Dannii to sing on the track `Who Do You Love Now?` The single went on to sell a phenomenal 200,000 copies and enter the UK charts at number 3. “I took everything I`d seen and heard in London and Ibiza and just went away from it all and focused on writing” The results wowed the music world, including America. `Who Do You Love Now?` kept Justin Timberlake and Beyonce off the top of the dance charts there for a staggering seventeen weeks. More chart success soon followed with the worldwide smash `I Begin To Wonder` debuting at number 2 in the UK charts. Back in Ibiza 2005, a dance track Dannii had written the lyrics to called `You Won`t Forget About Me` was fast becoming the hit of the summer. The song would chart top five throughout Europe and the Far-East. To date Dannii Minogue has charted at number 1 in the dance specialist arena an impressive ten times and this summer looks set to bring even more record-breaking hits.

Always full of surprises, 2006 looks set to be Dannii`s best and most creative yet. She is bursting with ideas and excitement, finally realising all she is capable of. “There`s still a long way to go and a lot to unfold,” Dannii promises. “I don`t know why I`m still around and still having hits but I`m taking it day by day and hoping more things pop up, things that I would never even have thought of doing. That`s the thrill and the challenge for me and that`s what I love.”