About Kimbra
Monday, November 13, 2017
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ORIGIN
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Hamilton, New Zealand
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GENRE
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Pop
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BORN
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27 Mar 1990
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Though New Zealand pop singer Kimbra released an award-winning debut
album with 2011's Vows, it was her cameo on Gotye's smash hit "Somebody
That I Used to Know" that won her global fame. She then used that
acclaim to make some of the most audacious and playful fusions of jazzy
R&B, pop, and dance in the 2010s. Born Kimbra Johnson in Hamilton,
New Zealand, Kimbra began taking guitar lessons around age 12 and was
performing live by her teens. A 2007 Juice TV video award caught the
attention of the Melbourne, Australia-based label Forum 5, which signed
her to a recording contract. Her first single, "Settle Down," was
released in 2010, the same year she guested on Miami Horror's "I Look to
You." In 2011, Warner Bros. released Kimbra's album Vows, which
featured the single "Settle Down." That year, she also appeared on
"Somebody That I Used to Know" with Australian-Belgian singer Gotye,
while a significantly reworked version of her debut album was released
in the U.S. in May of 2012. At the end of that year Kimbra triumphed in
five categories at the New Zealand Music Awards, most notably Best
Female Solo Artist and Best Pop Album. She also continued to receive
plaudits for her Gotye collaboration well into 2013, among them the 2012
Grammy for Record of the Year. Along with touring with Gotye and making
festival appearances, including a spot at Brazil's Rock in Rio
festival, Kimbra began work on her second album, The Golden Echo. She
returned to the studio with producer Rich Costey and a host of
collaborators including Bilal, Van Dyke Parks, Muse's Matt Bellamy, the
Mars Volta's Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, and Silverchair's Daniel Johns, who
co-wrote some of the album's songs. Singles such as the genre-hopping
"'90s Music" and the smooth disco-funk homage "Miracle" hinted at The
Golden Echo's eclecticism ahead of its August 2014 release. Kimbra
reunited with Bilal in 2015, appearing on his album Another Life, and
debuted her own single "Sweet Relief" in 2016. Another single, 2017's
"Everybody Knows," preceded 2018's Primal Heart, which featured
production by John Congleton.
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