Biography
British pop-rock performer Kim Wilde was and remains one of the most significant people at the Music Olympus of the second half of the 20th century. The woman gained popularity at the very beginning of the 1980s, subsequently becoming a sex symbol of that cult decade. The guys wandered the rooms with posters with her photo in a swimsuit, and the girls dreamed of becoming a little bit like this spectacular blonde. Now Kim manage to successfully engage in gardening and musical activity.Childhood and youth
Kim Smith (the real singer's name) was born on November 18, 1960 in the foresight of Cheswick, which is located in the western part of London. His stage pseudonym borrowed from his father, which is popular in the 50s pop singer and one of the pioneers of the English rock and roll, Marty Wilde (who, in turn, was born under the name of Reginald Leonard Smith). Mother Kim named Joyce Baker in his youth was a singer and dancer in the group The Vernons Girls.
Embed from getty imagesWhen the girl was 9 years old, she moved to Hartfordshire county with his family. Having received secondary education, it was easily entered at St. Olbans College, where he studied art and design. In parallel with this Kim, together with his mother, was on a back-vocal in the group of her father.
In the 1980s, the younger brother of the girl named Rica helped her to write to the studio rented by their star parent, a few demo, which soon drew the attention of the chief recording company RAK RECORDS - a popular British producer Mickey Musto. The man will not think that he suggested a beginner singer to conclude a contract with him.
Music
The debut single of Kim called Kids in America came out in the early 1981 and immediately brought her fame. The song took 2nd place in the English music charts, but according to the authoritative American print edition, Billboard became only the 25th. Despite this, afterwards Kids in America turned into a Wildlock business card.The output of the first plate, which received a simple and uncomplicated name Kim Wilde, took place in the same year. The debut disk instantly got on the 3rd place in the UK, and Singles Water on Glass and Chequered Love, who accompanied him, made their way to the top lines in local charts, thereby consolidating the success of the young performer.
Each composition from this album was written by the Father and the younger brother of the girl. Men continued to cooperate with her until 1988, writing the vast majority of songs performed by Kim in the 80s.
Embed from getty imagesAll this time, the singer maintained the image of a spectacular and charismatic blonde, who in many ways crossed out with the image of the vocalist of the popular band Blondie Debbie Harry. The first time of popular performers were compared, but this did not damage the career none or the other.
The energetic pop rock, which was characterized by the sound of the first Plate Wilde, soon underwent some changes: in the music of the next disc 1982, called Select the cold flavor of synthesizers underlined by the dynamics of electronic drums began to prevail. However, despite the fact that this album is now being taken to be one of the most talented singers in the discography, he failed to repeat the lightning breakthrough of the predecessor - took the 19th place in the music rankings.
In any case, Select replenished the professional biography of the performer by two more hits - View from A Bridge and Cambodia ("Cambodia"). Clips came out on both compositions. The third and fourth Albums of Wilde called Catch As Catch Can (who came out in 1983 and not published in the United States of America) and Teases & Dares (1984) could not re-raise the girl on the star Olympus. However, some songs, such as Love Blonde, Rage To Love and The Second Time, have gained popularity from the British audience.
The singer decided in the creative life of the singer decided to correctly correctly - in 1984 she left Rak Records and signed a new contract with a large-scale American MCA corporation. Two years later, Kim, in some way, managed to return the lost popularity after the yield of the dance version of the old Hit of the American team Supremes called You Keep Me Hangin 'On. The song is located on the 2nd place in the UK and 1st in the USA.
Then the 5th plate was released, entitled Another Step, the next hit of which was the same name Another Step (Closer to You), performed by Wild in a duet with Soul-singer Junior. The following year, the work of a woman again fell into the charts after she sang a Christmas song called Rockin 'Around Christmas Tree together with a comedian chalk Smith.
The end of 1988 became even more successful for Kim - in December, its new plaque Close was located on the 8th place in the music chart, becoming a source of several top hits: Never Trust A Stranger, You Came and Four Letter Word. Wilde music style began to correspond to commercial and dance canons, unlike a sharp synthesizer pop, popular in the first half of the 80s. There was a change and appearance of the blonde - instead of the youth image of the singer turned to a more feminine, sexy and sophisticated.
Albums, published in the 90s, namely Love Moves (1990) and Love IS (1992), again did not greatly interested the mass public, although some tracks from the plates (for example, Love Is Holy) still fell into charts. The 1995 album was truly failed by the 1995 album, which was largely influenced by such a musical genre as soul. After that, Kim Wilde for a long time abandoned his career pop performer.
In the first year of the new Millennium, she went to the Nostalgic Tour of Then and Now together with other celebrities of the 80s, and also recorded and released the Single Born to Be Wild in Germany, which is a key version of the song owned by the SteppenWolf group. In September 2001, a collection called The Very Best of Kim Wilde was released, which was well received by the audience. He entered into one new track entitled Loved.
The next few years Kim Wilde spent in tour of continental Europe in tour, where he could certainly be successful. In 2006, a woman presented the next new record Never Say Never, which included both unknown songs and old hits, rewritten on modern way.
In 2018, the singer has released an album called Here Comes The Aliens, thereby giving understanding that she is not going to go on peace.
Personal life
1996 was marked by the new twist in the personal life of the British pop singer - Hal Fowler became her husband, together with which Kim Wilde took part in the musical formulation of Tommy. In the future, the spouses had two children: the Son, who was given the name Harry Tristan, and the daughter of Rose Elizabeth.
Embed from getty imagesThe celebrity always fond of gardening, but during a break in a musical career with a special passion was given to his old hobby - gardening landscape design. In the late 1990s, Wilde successfully worked on television, speaking a leading special thematic program "The best gardens".
The growth of Kim is 165 cm, and the weight is 59 kg.
Kim Wilde now
Embed from getty imagesIn 2019, pop singer continues to actively give interviews and concerts. In August, the exit of the living album Kim Wilde. A woman actively leads microblogging in the social network "Instagram", where the posters of the upcoming speeches and photos from them.Discography
- 1981 - Kim Wilde
- 1982 - SELECT
- 1983 - Catch As Catch CAN
- 1984 - Teases & Dares
- 1986 - ANOTHER STEP
- 1988 - Close.
- 1990 - Love Moves
- 2006 - Never Say Never
- 2011 - Snapshots.
- 2018 - Here Come the Aliens