The musician hints that she may add some uniquely Singapore elements to her performance “we try to play according to the festival environment,” she teased. Given her penchant for theatrical fashion – she’s game for exaggerated puff-sleeves, cosmic print dresses and even pairing animal print with florals – Kimbra’s more than likely to don an outfit on stage that’s as loud as her red lippie. “Bright red lipstick dressed up an outfit,” shares the singer. Kimbra’s must-have makeup item is her M.A.C.
“To get in touch with, to work with them.” “One thing that has been really a highlight for me is to meet my idols,” gushes Kimbra.
She remembers their collaboration fondly: “I played with her in Switzerland was quite taken aback when I met her for the first time.” With the chart-topping Gotye track and her new album, 2012 was nothing short of spectacular for Kimbra.īut even this confident star has “nervous” starstruck moments in particular, her performance with R&B musician Janelle Monáe. “The Gotye song is a perfect example of people craving for something different.” “Music has a really strong ability to move people, to make them think about things,” said Kimbra. To shift perceptions and bring joy into people’s world.” For her part, she would like to “be honest as an artist, to take people to new places. “Vows don’t always have to be romantic, they can be about the person you want to be,” she said. So her first record came to be about “attachment and promises and working out what I will stand for as a young woman, as an artist it was a chance for me to throw a lot of colours on the canvas,” said the singer. With tracks inspired by the “very pivotal years of (her) life”, Vows is understandably an “album close to (her) heart”. Kimbra began working on Vows when she was 17, the year when she moved to Australia to work on making her singing career. The songstress admits that “it’s a little bit uncomfortable for the first few hours, being naked around people you don’t really know that well.”īut it’s an opportunity that they made the best of: “Me and Gotye were both very passionate about making a video in an artistic way, so we were able to let go of that awkwardness of the first few hours.” And baring it all in the name of “art” is not that new to her Kimbra wore tattoo-like body paint for the cover of her debut album, Vows. “We wanted to keep it casual.”Īlong with Gotye, Kimbra also shed her clothes for body paint in the “Somebody That I Used To Know” music video. “ called me and said, ‘look I’ve got this song, would you be interested in singing the second verse?’ And he came over to my house,” she laughs. Kimbra's musical influences include Prince, Minnie Riperton, Bjork and Jeff Buckley.According to Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”, was first recorded in her bedroom. Kimbra's popularity skyrocketed when she feautured on Gotye's 'Somebody That I Used to Know.' The song won ARIA and Grammy Awards. In 2011 she was signed by Warner Brothers Records and released her debut album 'Vows.' Through Forum 5 she released her first single 'Settle Down' in 2010. She then moved to Australia and started working on an album.
She then recived funding to release two singles called 'Simply on My Lips' and 'Deep for You'.Īt the age of 17 Kimbra was signed to Forum 5. In 2004, Kimbra was runner up in Smokefreerockquest, which gained her fame in her country. She learnt to play the guitar at 12 years old and would sing at her schools jazz choir. Kimbra began writing songs at just 10 years old. She is famous for being featured in Gotyes hit song, 'Somebody That I Used to Know.' Kimbra Lee Johnson (known as Kimbra) was born in Hamilton, N.Z on March 27, 1990.
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