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Coffey with New Year's Eve creative ambassador Kylie Minogue. Source:
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The Daily Telegraph reports
She was flown out to help ring in 2013 but the big question on everyone's lips last night was: Why didn't the singing budgie, er, sing?
Kylie Minogue, recruited this year by Sydney City Council and Imagination Australia as a "creative ambassador" for an "undisclosed sum", appeared to be the only singer who didn't perform at Monday night's Harbourside festivities with Ricki-Lee Coulter, Carmen Smith and Bobby Fox all belting out a tune.
The thousands of onlookers at the multi-million-dollar fireworks extravaganza, along with the millions of viewers watching the fireworks from around the world, were left without so much as a ditty from one of Australia's biggest and best-known singing exports.
Aneurin Coffey, the producer of Sydney New Year's Eve, admitted there were some talks among organisers about approaching Minogue's camp about a musical performance.
"But we didn't ask. We talked about it but we decided to keep her role to official ambassadorial duties," said Coffey, who said Minogue was "very hands on".
"Her role was to create news stories and create public discussion and she did that. She was very involved in the creative process and I don't think the night would have been as successful without her."
Asked how much Minogue was paid for her part in the end-of-year celebrations a spokesman for Lord Mayor Clover Moore said: "I couldn't say really. That was something that wasn't handled by (independent creative communications company) Imagination Australia."
Minogue, who used Monday night's celebrations to help cap her "K25" year (or 25th year in the industry), has begun reinventing herself of late by moving away from her disco-pop roots to a more refined image.
Her most recent album, The Abbey Road Sessions, was an orchestral compilation of a collection of Minogue's most famous tracks.
It was, however, somewhat of a commercial flop, debuting at No.7 on the Australian albums chart before slipping out of the top 40 in its third week of release.
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