As happens throughout the album, Kimbra starts with an ingratiatingly simple verse, then slides into a. The 2013 Laneway Festival takes place on Januin Singapore at Gardens by the Bay. Kimbras new album, The Golden Echo, comes out Aug. 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. Kimbras profile including the latest music, albums, songs, music videos and more updates. 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.
Her third album, Primal Heart, was released on 20 April 2018.According to Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”, was first recorded in her bedroom. Kimbra's second studio album, The Golden Echo, was released on 19 August 2014 to positive critical reception. This achievement made her the third New Zealand singer to win a Grammy Award. On 10 February 2013, she and Gotye won the Record of the Year and Best Pop Duo/Group Performance awards at the 55th Annual Grammy Awards for "Somebody That I Used to Know". The portrait was painted in conjunction with the making of a video featuring Kimbra's song "The Build Up".Kimbra was featured on the 2012 multi-platinum single "Somebody That I Used to Know" by Gotye. Vincent Fantauzzo's portrait of Kimbra was a finalist for the 2012 Archibald Prize.
Vows reached the top 5 in New Zealand and Australia on, the album was released in North America, debuting at number 14 on the Billboard charts. It featured several new songs, including "Come into My Head", "Warrior" (on which Kimbra was joined by musicians Mark Foster from Foster the People and DJ A-Trak), and a cover of Nina Simone's "Plain Gold Ring". It’s both more personal, on songs like ‘Recovery’, and more commercial than either of her previous albums. Singles from the album include "Settle Down", "Cameo Lover" (which won an Australian Recording Industry Association Award), "Good Intent" and "Two Way Street".Ī reworked version of the album was released in Europe and the United States in 2012. After the throw everything at the wall approach of The Golden Echo, 2018’s Primal Heart is the streamlined record that Kimbra needed to make. Her debut album, Vows, was released in Australia in 2011. Her musical influences range from Prince and Minnie Riperton to Björk and Jeff Buckley. Kimbra Lee Johnson (born 27 March 1990) is a New Zealand singer, songwriter, record producer, actress and model who mixes pop with classic R&B, jazz and rock musical elements.
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