Kelly Osbourne
Kelly Osbourne was born on October 27, 1984 in London, England and is the daughter of rock legend Ozzy Osbourne and his wife Sharon Osbourne.
Fashion-conscious Osbourne is part of a crop of young performers in the early 2000s who have revitalized the soft-core punk scene. Their combination of pseudo-punk outfits with an anti-authoritarian attitude (similar to Cyndi Lauper's persona in the 1980s) seems to reflect a movement out of the popularity of strictly pop music into an interest in rock and roll. Osbourne first rose to acclaim in The Osbournes, a reality TV series about her famous family.
Her debut album Shut Up! was released in 2002 to moderate sales, fueled mostly by a cover version of the hit Madonna song Papa Don't Preach. The album was met with fairly good critical reviews. She later recorded a duet with her father of Changes, a Black Sabbath song. The duet hit #1 on the UK charts, a first for Ozzy and Kelly. Shut Up! was repackaged with this duet and a few live cuts and rereleased under Changes. Sales did not improve and Kelly, seemingly having used up her singing talent has fled to "acting".
On April 4, 2004, her parents admitted that Kelly went into a re-habilitation center to fight an addiction to pain killers.
She is currently residing in Vancouver and co-starring in Life As We Know It on ABC, a high school teen drama.
Singles
- Papa Don't Preach (2002)
- Changes (2003)
Solo albums
External link
- The Official Kelly Osbourne Website (http://www.kellyosbourne.com)