Kylie has first date with Boston

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KYLIE MINOGUE

At: Agganis Arena, April 29, 8 p.m. Tickets: $53-$123. 800-745-3000, www.ticketmaster.com

Kylie Minogue jokes that she considered making a “Kylie 101’’ video for her upcoming North American tour. It’s an amusing idea because the United States is perhaps the last place in the world that needs a crash course in the Australian pop star’s long and celebrated career.

“We were trying to think how funny we could make it, acknowledging that [in America] it’s only my fanbase who really have a clue who I am and where I come from and what I do,’’ Minogue says recently in a one-on-one interview with the Globe. “Other than that, we might need a Kylie 101.’’

She might be right. A casual fan here probably knows Minogue from her two Top 10 radio hits — “The Loco-Motion’’ (1988) and then “Can’t Get You Out of My Head’’ arrived 14 years later — but that’s the extent of the dent she’s made, at least on the charts.

At 42 and on her first extensive tour of US cities, starting with Agganis Arena in Boston on Friday, Minogue is in an unusual position: She’s the global pop icon who’s on the verge of properly introducing herself to American fans who have adored — no, make that idolized — her from afar and for a very long time.

“I know it’s taken forever, but if it’s anything like the last tour, which was my first tour in the States, the welcome was just mind-blowing,’’ Minogue says. “I can’t wait to get there and share the show with you, share an evening.’’

That first US tour was in 2009, when Minogue tested the waters with a string of headlining shows in big cities such as New York and Los Angeles. If the tour’s scope was limited, it at least spoke volumes about her fans here.

“You are, in fact, fierce and mighty,’’ she says about what she learned from those shows. “I don’t have the numbers, I’m not across the board in the States like I am in other countries, but honestly, the noise levels, the excitement levels, the dedication — it was overwhelming. I loved it.’’

It’s astonishing to think Minogue will be making her Boston debut a full 23 years since her first album, “Kylie,’’ was released. The closest she has come to this city was in 2002 at the Tsongas Arena in Lowell for the multi-artist “Jingle Ball’’ tour. The Globe’s review of that concert noted, “Euro-pop princess Kylie Minogue attempted to turn pop into art during her set,’’ before singling out Destiny Child’s as the star of the show.

That was the year when “Can’t Get You Out of My Head,’’ an irresistible hit that lived up to its name, was in heavy rotation. Even though her commercial clout here peaked shortly after that, Minogue still wanted to give this market a go.

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