Janis Joplin

For Booking Entertainment Across America and Internationally

818.842.9389

Every time Kimberlee steps up to the microphone and wails out a soulful cry from the pit of her gut, you can’t help but remember Janis Joplin. It seems that at every performance multiple people will yell out "Janis". Kimberlee will often submit to the comparison of her to Janis Joplin and do a rendition of "Piece of my heart" which undoubtedly brings the house down. Even though Kimberlee’s music is contemporary Pop with R&B/Hip Hop influences, she never fails to hear from the audience this comparison.

It is obvious that Kimberlee is expressing herself from that same desperate place from inside herself that communicates with many of us the same way Janis Joplin did when she performed. Kimberlee gratefully accepts the comparison, but is also baffled by it at times because her music production is so much different. Regardless of genre, audiences see the vulnerable intensity Kimberlee shares in song and it always seems to bring up the memory of Janis Joplin.

Maybe the fact that both Kimberlee and Janis Joplin were trained by the same vocal coach has something to do with it. It is also uncanny to know that Kimberlee was born only blocks away from the Haight/Ashbury neighborhood that Janis Joplin got her career started.

Check it out for yourself and see if you hear the musical connection. You can buy Kimberlee’s current album, "Learning How To Love".