There’s more to her than being just the collaborative voice in the Grammy Award-winning song Somebody That I Used to Know with one-hit wonder Gotye. At a young age of 25, this singer, spawned by the calm bloodline of New Zealand, has been a relevant artist in the general music scene due to her successful infusion of genres ranging from indie pop and rock, alternative, dance, R&B, electro pop and jazz.
What sets her apart from other seemingly talented artists of this generation is the sheer sense of the absurd being emanated from her voice, bodily gestures and the sharp look on her eyes. Some music critics even have compared her to Bjork and Enya because of her intrinsic approach in belting out chilling renditions of tones and overall musicality. Born as Kimbra Lee Johnson, or infamously known as Kimbra, she is surely here to stay for as long as she wants because of her innate talent in making music all the more exciting to hear.
Kimbra have two albums on her belt, namely vows (released in 2011) and The Golden Echo (released and marketed in 2014). Vows can be remembered through the smash hits Settle Down and Cameo Role, both of which received fairly positive feedback from the targeted audience and specific music trend analysts. Kimbra started to pan out her fan base from her mother country New Zealand and stretched it through Australia.
Kimbra, together with Gotye, won Record of the Year for “Somebody That I Used to Know” in 2013, which pretty much fueled up Kimbra’s drive into dominating the world music stage and stepped out of her comfort zone. The Golden Echo had been Kimbra’s follow up on her Grammy’s success and she never knew what failure meant. Mostly collaborations from well-renowned music personalities like Daniel Johns, Taylor Graves, Matt Bellamy, Mark Foster and John Legend, this second endeavor into sealing her name as a relevant artist have paid off and put her into the pedestal of the artists you shouldn’t miss to listen to.
At present, Kimbra continued to craft good music for the benefit of her salivating fan base and even toured the United States with five incredible shows. Kimbra have been known to be an artist that you must collaborate with and so just recently, Bilal’s track Holding You Back is another display of how Kimbra does well with music connivances.
Not long before numerous takes into the world of duets, Kimbra went back into pleasing the crowd with her latest music video Goldmine, shot in the right place which is in a Berlin factory, all with Kimbra’s esoteric-pegged thoughts. This music video has been a hit in YouTube, earning megalomania of 11,000 views in just a day after release. As what the title says, the music video’s focal point is an abstract-like a short film, which stresses out gold set out in an almost black and white backdrop.
Kimbra had ensured that this music video will be brimming with metaphor and so when she worked with fellow Kiwis Chester Travis and Timothy Armstrong on the production; she specifically stated that ‘inner wealth’ should be clearly seen by viewers. With lyrics that says “Cause I got a goldmine, it’s all mine. Nobody can touch this gold of mine, I got a goldmine, it’s all mine…,” it will be no surprise that this can take part on your Last Song Syndrome list.
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