Kylie Minogue has won a Grammy award for her hit song Padam Padam, her second Grammy award in her almost four-decade long career.
Padam Padam, released in 2023, took out the award in the inaugural Grammy category for Best Pop Dance Recording.
It was Minogue’s sixth Grammy nomination of her career, 21 years after her first nomination with Love At First Sight in the running for Best Dance Recording in 2003.
The 55-year-old Aussie pop star was not on stage to accept the Grammy, but the song’s producer and co-writer Peter Rycroft accepted the award on her behalf.
“She is such a powerhouse, she recorded her own vocals in her hotel room and sent me the project – she is very hands-on and very collaborative,” Rycroft said of Minogue.
Wearing a striking red dress, perhaps a nod to the music video’s signature, Minogue spoke to reporters about what has inspired her in her nearly 40-year career.
“I’m very curious, I’m driven,” she said on the red carpet.
“If you are open to it and are willing to look and feel, there’s inspiration everywhere.”
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Minogue’s music has changed drastically from her first few hits in 1988, ‘I Should Be So Lucky’, ‘Locomotion’ and others. Since then, she has had seven songs in the UK No. 1s and 35 songs in the UK Top 10s.
In November 2020, Minogue became the first ever female artist to claim a UK Number 1 album in five consecutive decades with her 15th studio album DISCO.
“I am a chameleon, I like change,” Minogue said on the red carpet at the Grammys. “Not changing is more weird to me than evolving with the times.
“I’m very thankful I’ve had so many opportunities over the years to keep going.”
Minogue’s Grammy award follows a string of accolades in the past nine months, since ‘Padam Padam’ was released in May 2023. The pop star recently received Billboard’s Women in Music Icon award, and in November last year, she won best pop release at the ARIAs.
Minogue, who was born and raised in Melbourne, is Australia’s top selling female artist of all time. She has sold more than 80 million records globally.
Her Grammy win beat fellow Australian artist Troye Sivan for his 2023 hit Rush.
Sivan, a former YouTube star who grew up in Perth, received two Grammy nominations this year for Best Pop Dance Recording and Best Music Video.
Female artists dominated the Grammy nominations for this year’s 66th Grammy awards, including SZA, Taylor Swift, Olivia Rodrigo, boygenius and more.
The ceremony continues and more awards will be announced shortly.