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 return after a tumultuous five-year absence yielded this year’s A Reckoning, produced by Oscar-nominated Everything Everywhere All At Once composer Son Lux, a reckoning with heartbreak and global anxiety that sees the multi-talented artist pushing her sound into unprecedented new terrain.Ī gifted live performer with a sense of vocal drama, Kimbra is sure to deliver one of this year’s headline headlights.According to Kimbra, “Somebody That I Used To Know”, was first recorded in her bedroom. 2014’s The Golden Echo furthered Kimbra’s sonic exploration, featuring collaborations with Thundercat, Van Dyke Parks, Daniel Johns and John Legend, while 2018’s adventurous Primal Heart saw her working with Skrillex and touring with Beck and David Byrne. Her unforgettable performance on Gotye’s 2011 global smash "Somebody That I Used to Know” made her a household name, collecting more ARIAs and multiple Grammy Awards, including the prestigious Record of the Year. Inspired by the likes of Prince and Minnie Riperton, and drawing on a sonic fusion of R&B, jazz, art pop and dance, Kimbra broke through with her debut album Vows (2011), a platinum-selling hit that earned the rising star multiple ARIA and New Zealand Music Awards, including Album of the Year. To celebrate the release of her bold new album, A Reckoning, the multi-award-winning musician is returning to Australia for Vivid LIVE after five long years, playing her first-ever headline Sydney show for one night only in the Joan Sutherland Theatre. A distinctive singer-songwriter with an incredible vocal range and a talent for eclectic, experimental sound, New Zealand-born, New York-based Kimbra has established herself as one of the most unique artists of our era, moving effortlessly between smash collaborations and her own brand of innovative, idiosyncratic pop.
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