Kylie Davenport

Kathleen Elise Davenport (born February 22, 1974) is a Canadian singer/songwriter best known for performing as part of FanGirls.

Early life
Kathleen, nicknamed "Kylie" from childhood, was born in, , the daughter of Nathan "Nat" Davenport, a employee, and Doris Bridget Davenport, a former ballet dancer with the. She lived in Charlottetown until she was 7 years old, when her father got promoted to the Bank of Canada's head office, as a result, her family moved to the city.

Career
Her interest in singing began at the age of 9, when she heard her brother, Ed, playing Metallica's Kill 'Em All album on his turntable. She began repeating lines from "Seek and Destroy" and "Whiplash" to her brother's amusement and her mother's dismay. Ultimately, her mother hired a tutor to get her into singing. She had become passionate about professional dance by the age of 12, despite her growing interest in heavy metal, and began attending classes at a dance school in nearby.

By the time she was 21, Kylie had been in several metal groups in the Ottawa area, including Seek the Fate and Blinded by the Light.

FanGirls
In early 1997, her mother noticed a small ad in the Ottawa Citizen announcing auditions in for a girl group, and encouraged Kylie to try out. She chose to audition, traveling to Toronto on the and bringing along some of her thrash metal/grunge/nu-metal demos. The band's soon-to-be-manager Barry Berlin became curious about what it would sound like if Kylie sang pop songs. Kylie became the lead singer of the girl group, FanGirls, which she suggested the name for, claiming in a later interview that it was an in-joke about "us just trying to piggyback off the Spice Girls' success."

In 1998, FanGirls' European hit single "The Power" unexpectedly entered the Billboard Hot 100, despite the group not having a recording contract in the US; (which FanGirls' label,, controlled the European operations of) had previously rejected FanGirls as "unsuitable for the American market." An exchange student from returned from  and asked his local Top 40 radio station to play the song. The track quickly became popular, and the station began distributing the song to their sister radio operations throughout the US. It shot to no. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 after four weeks, leading to the rush-release of the group's self-titled debut U.S. album after American record stores began importing the group's first two European/Canadian albums, We're Gonna Meet Ya and Out to Party.