This is a matrix in the original sense of "source". It is a "small-world" network, meaning that the nodes (people) inside it are — mirroring human society — within a few steps of everybody else inside it. The matrix was built to allow regional Brazilian musicians to be discoverable steps away from everybody else in the arts world, and by logical necessity this m.o. requires not only that the great Brazilians be matrixed, but so far as possible, all working artists in our time. Ergo:
This Kim Hill matrix node is steps away from the entire planet by the well-known small-world ("6 degrees") phenomenon dictating that in human society you yourself are within several degrees of Kim Hill.
1 DEGREE FORWARD: Kim Hill (node) ROUTES CURATING WORLDLINES TO THESE ARTIST NODES
Are these Kim Hill's personal recommendations?
CURATION STATUS
- → Routes by The Matrix
Who & Where
- Name: Kim Hill
- City/Place: Los Angeles
- Country: United States
- Hometown: Syracuse, New York
Current News
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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
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
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
Clips (more may be added)
THE MATRIX WAS BUILT HERE, inspired in (the kabbalah-inspired fiction of) Borges' El Aleph, that in the pillar in Cairo's Mosque of Amr, where the universe in its entirety throughout all time is perceivable as an infinite hum from deep within the stone... The Brazilian "aleph" doesn't hum...it sings!
Sprawled across broad equatorial latitudes
Stoked and steamed and sensual in the widest sense of the word
Limned in prosody and cadenced song
brəˈzɪl / from "brasa" / Latin for "ember"
w/ David Dye for U.S. National Public Radio
Given the immense untapped power of the small-world phenomenon, from Brazilians the matrix was expanded to include nodes per jazz artists, given jazz's common roots with Brazilian music (nodes based in publicly available information; some artists we informed — Bob Mintzer, Kamasi Washington, David "Fuse" Fiuczynski, Vijay Iyer, Greg Osby — and got thumbs up, others we'll get to), and moved on from there. Artists/academics/"creative people" are welcome to create their own nodes and curate (connect to other artist nodes, so that others may follow). BTW, our logo is a cortador de cana, cane cutter. It was designed by Walter Mariano, professor of design at the Federal University of Bahia to reflect the origins of the music the shop specializes in.
MUCH MORE on all of this in the window below (which, if you are logged in, will instead contain instructions on recommending), and in the window within that window (which includes a "radio" called by The Guardian one of "10 of the best music radio stations around the world"):
