Biography Singer/Songwriter, Kimberlee Roberts, performs an urban folk sound that will bond with your heart.  The CBS TV Morning News highly commends her in-studio performance, “Fabulous…goose bumps to my skin…Wow!  Blown away…she’s a real talent, you’re gonna love this!” Having achieved success on her sophomore release in 2003 with multi-platinum Producer/Songwriter, Paul Laurence, Kimberlee Roberts (formerly known as just Kimberlee) is now ready to record her third album due out in 2006.  Coming off the road last year and settling down with her husband near Austin, TX has proven to be rest well deserved after a five year run coast to coast recording, promoting, and touring.  Kimberlee shares, “Austin feels more like home than any other place I have ever lived.” Kimberlee was born at UC Hospital, San Francisco, CA two hours before Thanksgiving Day in 1968, only blocks away from the acclaimed music scene of Haight/Ashbury that was generating world recognition by artists like Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, and The Grateful Dead.  One might connect the uncanny proximation of her birthplace along with her own vision to have an impact one day through music.  Kimberlee realized that music was a language itself at an early age.  She found that it seemed to possess some kind of medicine for the soul.  By the time she was eight years old, Kimberlee had decided she was going to become a singer when she grew up.   She still remembers the day she told her Mom this.  Kimberlee believed that through a career in music, she would be able to help thousands upon thousands in the most remote places of the world hungering for food, clothes, and hope.  At age twelve, Kimberlee received a guitar as a gift.  This encouraged her to pursue music more seriously as she garnered the attention of others for her commanding natural vocal talent accompanied by the stringed instrument.  She was fortunate to be mentored under the wing of Phil St. Pierre (he performed with artists such as Louis Armstrong in his career).  This opened up many opportunities for her and for nearly three years she trained with Phil, learning how to perform in front of large audiences and touch people through song.  In addition, Kimberlee studied voice under the world renowned Vocal Coach, Judy Davis, who trained industry legends Frank Sinatra, Janis Joplin, Barbra Streisand, Grace Slick and Jefferson Starship, The Grateful Dead, Steve Perry of Journey, members of En Vogue and a host of others.  When Kimberlee was fifteen, she was accepted into Judy Davis’ impressive school.  People Magazine writes of Davis, “A blunt, feisty singing coach with a waiting list of 600 protégés, she boasts of former clients that reads like a pop Hall of Fame…Streisand says that when she sought out Judy, “I was like a paralyzed person, having to relearn to walk”…“I’m a vocal plumber,” Davis says.  “I fix the pipes, that’s all.”  Typically, Davis didn’t accept students unless they were at least eighteen years of age.  However, she made an exception with Kimberlee because her voice was especially mature.  Kimberlee would find herself studying with Davis for nearly nine years, building one of the strongest vocal foundations possible and a prowess that would help launch her music career to unlimited heights as an adult.  Some of the artists that have had the greatest impact on Kimberlee are Wynonna, Aretha Franklin, Heart, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Melissa Etheridge, Etta James, Mary Chapin Carpenter, James Taylor, Ricki Lee Jones, Billie Holiday, and Chaka Khan.  Having been influenced from country, rock, folk, blues, jazz, and R&B, Kimberlee started combining the musical styles and eventually developed a sound of her own.  As Kimberlee matured, she realized her own need to express her heart through songwriting and discovered that music is one of the most powerful mediums we have for communication. “In a moment of song”, she says, “hope can be restored and inspiration found”.  Borders Books and Music rave, “Wow! … a rock/soul/folk sound that takes others a lifetime to master.”  Kimberlee Roberts has come to believe music as a universal expression that crosses cultures and ethnicities, able to heal the pain we have caused one another within the human race.  Kimberlee writes and performs songs that plant seeds for a better world.  Kimberlee has performed for the United States Olympics, regularly been chosen to sing the national anthem at professional sporting events for crowds as big as 40,000 at various arenas and stadiums, entertained for national and international political events, won first place in a Nashville Talent Competition, received Best Artist Out of County Nomination for the 2002 Orange County Music Awards, appeared on all of the major television networks (FOX, NBC, ABC, CBS), received national radio airplay, participated in different benefit concerts to raise money for different benevolent contributions with artists such as Pete Escovedo, shared the stage with Michael McDonald, Kool & The Gang, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Luther Tucker, Keith Urban, performed and/or recorded with Eddie Caipo (Engineer for No Doubt, Santana’s Karl Perazzo, Deftones), Bryant Mills (Drummer for the late John Lee Hooker, Maria Maldaur, Charlie Musselwhite, Boz Skaggs, Michelle Schocked), Terry Carleton (Session Drummer for the late Kevin Gilbert who began Tuesday Night Music Club with Sheryl Crow), Al Berry (Sony Records Recording Artist and former Session Bassist for B.B. King, the late Stevie Ray Vaughan, Ric Ocasek), J.R. Johnston (Bassist for Cream of Wee Gee, Produced by Eric Valentine of Smashmouth, Nickel Creek), Gabriel Falcon (Drummer for Ricky Martin Productions), Alberto Albis (Bassist for Coolio, Vanessa Carlton), and many others. In 2000, Kimberlee shined with her debut EP, “Learning How To Love”.  Kimberlee toured nationally in support of the album, receiving commendable reviews.  In 2003, Kimberlee’s second album, “What am I gonna do?”  followed up her debut.  With all songs written and co-produced by Kimberlee, the Desert Post Weekly in Palm Springs claimed,  “Kimberlee is on the cusp of stardom!”  Whether she is or not, Kimberlee Roberts is grateful for the blessing of music.  Her greatest fulfillment comes from being able to bring hope into the hearts of her fans.  Pick up a copy of one of her albums at a store near you and find out for yourself!