Kylie Minogue announces Las Vegas residency

Aussie superstar Kylie Minogue has revealed her next big move after teasing fans around the world of a big announcement.

Kylie Minogue is joining the world’s biggest music superstars from Adele to U2 with a Las Vegas residency.

As Minogue’s smash hit Padam Padam continues to be one of the favourite soundtracks of the Northern Hemisphere summer, Minogue is making a big tilt at another career breakthrough in America as the first performer to open the new Voltaire performance venue at the Venetian Resort.

The 55-year-old pop legend has had the US spinning around since dropping Padam Padam, the first taster for her new record Tension which will be released in September.

Minogue has been teasing fans with the big news of her Las Vegas debut and confirmed it at a press conference in West Hollywood.

Kylie Minogue has announced her Las Vegas legacy.

Minogue’s Padam Padam is a worldwide hit.

“I’ve performed a couple of times at Vegas, but as part of a tour, and particularly when I did the Showgirl tour in 2004 — at that time we said, ‘oh, this feels like a Vegas show.’ Then, when I did Aphrodite, which was a tour with so many waterworks in like precision fountains,” Minogue explained. “My team at the time kept saying, ‘why isn’t this in Vegas? We’ve got to do it at some point.’”

Minogue said doing a Vegas residency, which has become a popular “tour” option for artists to bring the fans to them rather than travel all throughout the US, had been on her to-do list for many years.

Minogue’s new album is due out in September. Picture: Instagram

“I was thinking years ago I want to do it when I’m younger like, I don’t want to do it when I’m at the sunset of my career. So, I think I’ve got it right somewhere in the middle where I feel like I’ve earned the right to and have the experience to really enjoy being there.”

The venue is an intimate 1000-seater so competition for tickets will be fierce with many of her loyal fans likely to travel from Australia and the UK to see her up close and personal.

The Vegas residency will open in November but of course does not rule out that she will book shows in Australia, Europe and Asia in support of Tension which is out on September 22.

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