Music
The best kept secret in music
Press
…with her big, tall voice and no-holds-barred guitar work, Kimberli … took the stage by storm. She’s a little bit Janis Joplin and Grace Slick with a dash of Ethel Merman, surprising you with a some sweet and soulful moments from time to time. Her (first) album “Comedy & Tragedy” (Flying Monkeys Productions) showcases this softer side. My picks from “Comedy & Tragedy” are “Dance, Mama,” a rich story-telling ballad and the slow, edgy “Emerald Green.” Fine guitar work, rich vocals and stunning songwriting creates the powerful package that is Kimberli
-Bella Online, Emerging Music
Kimberli Plays the kind of folk music that would make James Taylor eat Junebugs
-the ICON, Iowa City
Powerful vocals and a gift for insight
-KUNI Radio, Cedar Falls, Iowa
- Bella Online, the ICON, KUNI Radio
Discography
2001- Comedy and Tragedy
2004- LIVE at the GREEN ROOM
2005- ECHOES of HITAGA ( a fundraiser CD for a local summer camp )
2003 - LINN COUNTY WORDS & MUSIC
(a fundraiser compilation disc for the Linn
Couny History Center )
Also recorded backing vocals for:
KARLA RUTH - Hanging by a Thread
KARLA RUTH - EXACTLY
CHRYS MITCHELL - PEOPLE and PLACES
CHRYS MITCHELL - no plans for the day
GLENN LONSDALE and CARLIS FAUROT - Irish Moon
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Feeling a bit camera shy
Bio
When it comes to music, Kimberli has dabbled in every kind imaginable. Being raised in a highly theatrical household, the first songs she learned were showtunes. That gave her a great boost into her amateur and professional acting carreer in live theatre, television, commercials and video. From her beginnings with showtunes, she then went into pop, folk, jazz, original acoustic, classical (yes, opera), rock and punk, and prayed to feel and be able to sing the blues. Not knowing what she was asking for, her life took her in that very direction and she learned first hand what the blues FELT like, followed by the soul to sing them.
She experimented other places too... instrumentally she wandered from violin to piano, clarinet, french horn, percussion, harp, bugle, penny whistle, kazoo, upright bass, harmonica and banjo, but she always returned to her first love - the guitar. All were great assets for her live theatre jobs.
Currently Kimberli works on building fundraisers, directing youth for local schools, hosting Open Mics and creating Women's Acoustic Showcases and Teen Band Showcases as well as other events, while still persuing her solo carreer.
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