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  • Kylie Minogue To Record Christmas Songs With Sister Danii, Duo Will Cover Wham’s ‘Last Christmas’

    Sisters Kylie Minogue and Danii Minogue have teamed up to record Christmas songs to be released in December.

    Daily Mirror reported that the Minogue sisters have finished recording a cover of Wham’s famous “Last Christmas.”

    The team-up was impossible at first since Kylie and Dannii were both busy with their respective careers. Dannii has been a part of X Factor Australia. Kylie, on the other hand, has been busy gearing up for her Kiss Me Once world tour.

    According to a source, “Minogue fans have long wanted a duet between the two sisters, but Kylie never felt it was the right time. Also, her management tried to avoid it because they considered the pair were in different leagues.”

    The last time they collaborated was when they sang a cover of ABBA’s “The Winner Takes It All” for the British television program Beautiful People.

    But now, Kylie has plenty of time to do a recording with her sister. It was previously reported that in March, Kylie left Parlophone, her record label of 15 years. The 47-year-old singer also decided to leave Jay Z’s music management company, Roc Nation.

    The siblings are hoping fans will appreciate their effort now that they have joined forces once again.

    Kylie has always wanted to do a recording with her sister. “We would definitely love to do something together again. My favourite thing that we have done together is a comedy sketch show in England a while back,” she said back in 2011, hinting she missed the times they spent together. From what can be seen from their social media pages, the sisters have been spending more quality time with each other nowadays.

    Meanwhile, Dannii will be coming back as a judge on The X-Factor Australia.

  • Lynn Anderson, Singer Of 70s Hit ‘Rose Garden’, Dies at 67

    Lynn Anderson, singer of the 70s classic hit (I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden, died July 30 at a hospital in Nashville at the age of 67.

    According to her publicist, Lynn Anderson died of cardiac arrest.

    A fixture in the 1970s country music scene, the young Lynn Anderson garnered attention as a young singer on “The Lawrence Welk Show” between 1967 and 1969. That exposure helped land her a record deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

    In a 1987 interview with the Associated Press, Anderson said Welk felt county music was coming into its own and deserved to be featured on national television.

    “At that time, I was the only one singing country music on national TV every week,” said Anderson. “He’s one of my heroes and always will be.”

    Although she received plenty of attention, it was the single, Rose Garden, that sealed her country music legacy, earning her a Grammy and Country Music Association’s female vocalist of the year award in 1971. It also crossed into mainstream music.

    “It was popular because it touched on emotions,” Anderson told the AP. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.

    Other hits included Rocky Top, You’re My Man, How Can I Unlove You?, What a Man, My Man Is and Top of the World, which was also recorded by the Carpenters.

    Born Sept. 26, 1947, in Grand Forks, North Dakota, Lynn Rene Anderson grew up in Sacramento, California. She was the daughter of country songwriters Casey and Liz Anderson began performing at the age of 6.

    As a teenager, Lynn Anderson was an award-winning equestrian and was voted California Horse Show Queen in 1966.

    Facing some legal battles in her later years while living in Taos, New Mexico, she was issued a restraining order in 1995 by a Taos judge after her boyfriend said she had threatened him following the end of their 12-year relationship.

  • Lynn Anderson: Country Singer Known for ‘(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden’ Dead at 67

    Lynn Anderson, the country singer best known for her 1971 hit song “(I Never Promised You a) Rose Garden,” died on Thursday at Vanderbilt University Medical Center in Nashville. She was 67 years old. A publicist for the singer says her cause of death was cardiac arrest.

    It was on The Lawrence Welk Show back in 1967 and 1969 that Lynn Anderson first gained national attention. The exposure helped her sign a deal with Columbia Records in Nashville.

    “He was absolutely wholesome,” Lynn Anderson said of Lawrence Welk in a 1987 interview with The Associated Press. “He felt country music was coming into its own and deserved to be on national TV. At that time, I was the only one singing country music on national TV every week. He’s one of my heroes and always will be.”

    “Rose Garden” was Lynn Anderson’s biggest hit ever.

    “It was popular because it touched on emotions,” she said in that 1987 interview. “It was perfectly timed. It was out just as we came out of the Vietnam years and a lot of people were trying to recover.”

    “This song stated that you can make something out of nothing. You take it and go ahead. It fit me well and I’ll be proud to be connected to it until I die,” she added.

    Sadly that day has come.

    Lynn Anderson is survived by her father, her partner Mentor Williams, and her three children–Lisa Sutton, Melissa Hempel, and Gray Stream.