Kim Hill via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other...
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I'LL TAKE YOU THERE! ▶
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Who I Am & Where I Live
- Name: Kim Hill
- City: Los Angeles
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Syracuse, New York
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What's Up?
During a five year run with The Black Eyed Peas, touring, producing and writing with everyone from Mos Def to Tupac, I was constantly asking myself What's NEXT? After my departure in 2000, I began spiritual work that challenged many ideologies around my race and religion. I became coined as a modern day Bush-Woman by fellow artists whose health I helped sustain on the road. I took notes while my grandmother was making salves and remedies from things that were in her kitchen. She had healing hands and a strong respect for nature. This kept me sane and connected to my roots during the most stressful episodes in my life.
As a mom in a climate thriving on over indulgence, it's essential for me to keep my life as simple and organic as possible. I harnessed the God given gifts that gave me creative license on the stage and put that energy into products, inspired by my son and accessible to all. Today, NOK marks the metamorphosis of what happenes when mixing ingredients replaces mixing records. I'm still nice on the mic though.
What's NEXT for you?
Kim
My Life & Work
- Bio: Kim is a singer, actress, DJ and entrepreneur who came into the broad public eye via her participation in the Black Eyed Peas at the beginning of their, and her, career.
Contact Information
- Email: kimpossiblehill@gmail.com
My Media & Markets
- ▶ Buy My Music (downloads/CDs/DVDs): http://kimhill2.bandcamp.com/
- ▶ Twitter: killhim
- ▶ Instagram: killhim
- ▶ Website: http://www.kimhill.work
- ▶ Website 2: http://nextofkimbeauty.com
- ▶ Vimeo Channel: http://vimeo.com/user33715242
- ▶ Article: http://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/16/opinion/black-eyed-peas-kim-hill.html
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Quotes, Notes & Etc.
"I'm not trying to re-invent the wheel, I'm just trying to do right by the people who've inspired me like Sade, Nina Simone, Bill Withers and Steely Dan... I can deal with label rejection."
- Kim Hill interviewed by Gail Mitchell
I hope the first singer [Hill] makes it. The song had a very ethereal sound to it."
- Dionne Warwick
"This spring Kim Hill (who you may remember from the golden era of the Black Eyed Peas) is set to star in In The Morning, an indie feature. Ms. Hill plays one of the many protagonists, all young black New Yorkers working to find serenity and satisfaction in their romantic lives."
- Scott Heins
"Hill‘s Surrender to Her Sunflower is a testament to her marvelous vocal and songwriting talent."
- Derrick Mathis
"Kim Hill was first introduced to the music world as the girl in the Black Eyed Peas. On their 1998 debut LP, Behind the Front, that’s her voice lacing the beats with honeyed estrogen, helping stake territory worlds apart from the gangsta and bling that had come to define rap in the mainstream. Her sexy-but-not-nekkid vibe helped make inroads for the Peas, those torchbearers of breaking, dancing and laughing, those sons of Pharcyde. Along with her boys Will.I.Am, Apl.De.Ap and Taboo, she brought a sense of playfulness and open-ended possibilities to the table, broadening shrunken gender dynamics so that male-female communion wasn’t so mercenary, so bleakly combative. The foursome were a throwback to old-school pioneers Funky 4 +1, reminding you that the hip-hop guy/girl relationship could actually be warm, familial."
- Ernest Hardy
"Not one to bite her tongue (like, ever), Kim Hill softens her words with a sweet tone of voice and hyper-annunciated phrases. Referring to a song called “Disney” where she sings, No more auctions on the cinderblocks/ Now that Disney has stock in hip-hop, Hill says, “I’d write songs and my band would go, ‘Now we’re actually going to perform it in front of people?’ and I’d be like Yeah, and y’all are gonna wear Mickey Mouse ears.”
- Lindsey Caldwell
"The Real Hip Hop may not be as volatile as Ice Cube's No Vaseline or 2Pac's Hit 'Em Up... but Hill's fluid vocals and lacerating lyrics make it memorably acidic nonetheless."
- Craig D. Lindsey
“Because, yes, the character Harper (played by Kim Hill) is in an evening gown going to brunch, because [Hill] would actually do that.”
- Neferite Nguvu
"Hill’s entrée onto the national music scene at that time can be attributed to a winning combination of honey-laced vocals, skillful lyricism, coupled with the sort of campy showmanship that was a perfect complement to “The Peas’s” soulful, yet playful, appeal."
- Zawadi C Morris
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The world's artistry via giant steps through a matrix based in the phenomenon placing most of the 7.8 billion of us within 6 or fewer degrees — steps — of each other ...
... a project conceived and built in the fertile, fecund and atavistic ground zero of Bahia, Brazil initially for the discoverability of this singular region's dispossessed genius.
All explained in the window immediately below. Followed — beneath this window — by scores of magnificent artists, each leading to myriads more artists/categories. Inside this window also may be found our Brazilian record store radio, named by British journal The Guardian as one of 10 of the Best Radio Stations Around the World!
IF YOU CAN'T STAND THE HEAT
Brazil is not a European nation. It's not a North American nation. It's not an East Asian nation. It straddles -- jungle and desert and dense urban centers -- both the equator and the Tropic of Capricorn. It absorbed over ten times the number of African slaves taken to the United States of America, and much of its aboriginal population was absorbed into the general population-at-large. Its people have lived under oligarchy, plutocracy, dictatorships and massive corruption, with elements of these still strongly entrenched today.
But!
Brazil has buzz...not the shallow buzz of a fashionable moment...but the deep buzz of a population which in spite of -- or perhaps because of -- the tough slog through life they've been allotted by humanity's dregs-in-fine-linen, have chosen not to simply pull themselves along but to lift their voices in song and their bodies in dance...to eat well and converse well and much and to wring the joy out of the day-to-day happenings and small pleasures of life which are so often set aside or ignored in the European, North American, and East Asian nations.
For this Brazil has a genius perhaps unparalleled in all other countries and societies, a genius which thrives alongside peeling paint and holes in the streets and roads, under bad organization by the powers-that-be, both civil and governmental, under a constant rain of societal indignities...
Which is all to say that if you don't know Brazil and you're expecting any semblance of order, progress and light, you will certainly find the light! And the buzz of a people who for generations have responded to privation at many different levels by somehow rising above it all.
Raimundo Sodré, in a conversation ranging through New Orleans and Harlem and the South Side of Chicago ... and Appalachia and Irish villages and Russian shtetls and the unofficial symbol of Brazil's Bahian-born national music (the pandeiro) almost certainly having arrived in Brazil in the hands of Sephardic Jews (including conversos) fleeing the Inquisition, once remarked: "Where there's misery, there's music!"
A pandeirista on the roof. And it's not just music. And it's not just Brazil.
