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Kim, an
extraordinarily gifted producer, composer, arranger,
keyboardist, vocalist, vocal coach, and engineer, received a
degree in music from Howard University. Upon graduation, Kim
toured around the world for twelve years with poet and jazz
legend Gil Scott Heron,
receiving international acclaim for her live performances from
publications such as The London
Guardian, The San Francisco Examiner, The Chicago Tribune, The
Washington Post, The Dallas Morning News, and Billboard Magazine.
Kim is the first signed artist with Washington, D.C.-based
record company, ProSounity Music
Entertainment (“ProSounity”). Her
first release on ProSounity was “All
For You.”
Kim, who has over 25 years in the music industry, is on the
cutting-edge of the emergence of a new genre of music -- gospel
jazz. Kim serves as executive producer and producer for her
sophomore project, “Full Circle,”
as well as composer of all of the songs. The project also
features guest musicians, bass players
Scott Ambush (Spyro
Gyro) and Terrence Richburg
(Richard Smallwood & Vision), drummer
Eric Valentine
(Jonathan Butler), guitarist Wayne
Bruce (Gerald Albright, Will
Downing, and Maysa) saxophonist Ron
Holloway (Dizzy Gillespie, Sonny
Rollins, and Gil Scott-Heron), and guest vocalists Tawatha
Agee (Luther Vandross, Dave Matthews Band, and Lenny
Kravitz), Keitha Shepherd (Pure Soul), and
Lorree K. Slye (Richard Smallwood & Vision).
Kim’s phenomenal career to date includes her work on Broadway
with Taj Mahal
in the Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston’s production,
“MULE BONE,” where she assisted Taj Mahal in recording the “MULE
BONE” soundtrack. She has performed with such notable artists
as Roberta Flack, Stevie Wonder,
Brenda Russell, Terri Lynn Carrington, Vanessa Williams
and Meshell
Ndegeocello. Jazz collaborations
include performances at the “Jackie Robinson Jazz Festival,”
along with Dr. Billy Taylor, Lionel
Hampton, Wynton Marsalis and
Take 6;
and with the Fantasy Band with Noel
Pointer, Lonnie Liston Smith and
Dave Valentine. Other appearances
have included the “Seaport Jazz
Concert Series,” with Noel Pointer
and Peter Moffett;
“The Congressional Black Caucus’ Salute to Women in Jazz;” “The
Women in Jazz Series,” Kennedy Center/D.C.; The Black Academy of
Arts and Letters, Inc. Theatre in Dallas, TX;
and at the “New Orleans Jazz
Festival.” Dianne Reeves, Kevin Eubanks, Gerry Gonzales
and Billy
Childs have all performed her
music. She scored the music soundtrack for the Showtime cable
network movie,
“Rain,”
which premiered in July 2002. She served as National Music
Director for the Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc. for their 44th
and 45th National Conventions. She has also worked
as musical director, composer, producer, arranger and/or vocal
coach for a number of Platinum and Grammy Award-winning
recording artists and labels, including
Pure Soul and
Mya on Interscope Records,
Dru Hill on Island Black Music,
and Terri Dexter
on Warner Brothers Records.
Kim, a former music teacher for the Washington, D.C. public
school system, was named SONY Innovator’S first runner up in 1991. In June of 1996, Kim’s
publishing company, Kimberlyn Music, received the prestigious
ASCAP Music Award for writing and producing one of the top ten
songs on Billboard’s
charts, “We Must Be In Love,”
recorded by the group Pure Soul. In June 2005, Kim received the
Urban Gospel Alliance 2005 Urban Gospel Industry Music Awards
for Female Artist and Producer in the gospel-jazz category.
On September 30,
2001, Kim was ordained as a Minister of the Gospel at Emmanuel
Covenant Church in Hyattsville, MD, where she serves as Minister
of Arts and Community Worship. She is a much sought after
producer, musician, director, and vocal coach for other record
labels and artists, choirs, conferences, seminars and
workshops. |
